The Stevens-Coolidge Place

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Walled rose garden, looking from rear towards house.
Walled rose garden, looking from rear towards house.
Perennial garden, looking back from house.
Perennial garden, looking back from house.
Ash tree beyond the perennial garden, by the hayfields, in winter.
Ash tree beyond the perennial garden, by the hayfields, in winter.

The Stevens-Coolidge Place 91 acres (368,000 m²), formerly known as Ashdale Farm, is a garden and historic home located at 139 Andover Street in North Andover, Massachusetts. Helen Stevens Coolidge's family first acquired the farm in 1729, and from 1914-1962 it was her summer home with husband John Gardner Coolidge, diplomat, descendant of Thomas Jefferson, and nephew of Isabella Stewart Gardner. It is now a nonprofit museum operated by The Trustees of Reservations.

Between 1914 and 1918, architect Joseph Everett Chandler remodeled two late-Federal period farmhouses to form today's house. Chandler also enhanced the design of the landscape, which eventually included a perennial garden, a kitchen and cut flower garden, a rose garden, a French potager garden with a brick serpentine wall, and a greenhouse complex. The house's collections include Asian artifacts including Chinese porcelain, American furniture, and European decorative arts.

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