Ashintully Gardens

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

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Ashintully Gardens is a 120 acres (0.49 km ²) large nature reserve and cultural monument near Tyringham in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts in the United States. It is from June to October on Wednesdays and Saturdays open to the public.

History

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Egyptologist Robb de Peyster Tytus bought a total of 1,000 acres ( 4.05 km ²) of land from three farms in Tyringham and Otis the town that he is in the Gaelic language for " to Ashintully Gardens ( " Ashintully " put together on top of the hill ").

From 1910 to 1912 he built on a hill in a white, held in the Georgian style villa, which quickly became known as the Marble Palace, as the white stucco glittered in the sunlight. The front of the building graced a series of four columns in the Doric order. The house had no less than 35 rooms, 10 bathrooms and 15 fireplaces. However, on April 20, 1952, the villa was burnt out completely, so that today only the front porch, the foundation and the four pillars can be seen.

Tytus died just one year after completion of the villa and left behind two daughters and his wife, in 1914 the Canadian Senator John S. McLennan and married him in 1915 a son John McLennan Jr. got before she divorced him. He purchased the property in 1937, where he had spent the summer days of his youth, and moved to a farm at the foot of the hill. He taught there a recording studio and composed contemporary music, for which he was awarded in 1985 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with a price. Over the years, designed McLennan Ashintully the Gardens as they can be found today. 1996 gave Katharine and John McLennan the property the Trustees of Reservations.

Sanctuary

The Ashintully Gardens are a quiet retreat in the Berkshire Mountains, surrounded by dense forests and is crossed by a river. The musical style of its creator John McLennan Jr. is also reflected in the design of the plant, which contributed, among other things, to win the Hunnewell Medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1997.

The reserve is open to the public from the first Wednesday in June to the second Saturday in October on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 13:00 bis 17:00 clock clock.