Early B&W Pictures:  The Stone House   Interior   Construction  The Builder   Early Family  Garden Pictures

Early Slides: Background  Spring in the Garden  Other Seasons  Propagation  Specimens The Stone House

Introduction

    
 

    
Bob is beginning another wall. He used
    a sledge hammer to split the rounded rocks so they would have
    sharp faces.

    
In the 1930s, Bob redesigned and supervised
    construction of several important gardens, including those of
    Thomas Edison and Mr. Tomlinson, president of National Biscuit
    Company. Mr. Tomlison introduced Bob to a type of masonry construction
    that was faced with stones and backed by wooden forms that were
    then filled with concrete. This is the technique he used to create
    his house of stone.

Bob takes Nancy along on a rock hunting expedition. The garden lay on the terminus of the glaciers from the last ice age, so an ample supply of raw material for the house had been delivered to the site 15,000 years before.