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Lushlife: the owner of a historic garden in upstate New York lets her imagination run wild.(Heathcote garden in Cooperstown, New York)(Brief Article)
From: House Beautiful
Date: 20020801
Author:Whiteside, Katherine
HEATHCOTE, PATRICIA THORPE'S Cooperstown, New York, garden, is the work of three strong women. The first was Ellen Biddle Shipman (1869-1950), one of America's earliest women landscape designers, who laid out the classically inspired garden. Katherine Guy Cooper (1895-1988), daughter-in-law of James Fenimore Cooper III, planted the garden in the 1920s. Today the grounds are in the knowing hands of Patricia Thorpe, author of four garden books and the owner of Heathcote since 1993.
Heathcote was "terrifying" the first time Thorpe saw it. "The house, with ten bathrooms and a ...
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