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
 
The First Anderson Rhododendron Park in Springfield, New Jersey  1938-1961

Prehistory (before Springfield)

 

    


    During the Depression, Bob
    and Betty bought an eight-acre woodland on a lake twenty miles
    outside of New York City. Over the years, they built a unique
    stone house and rhododendron garden that have become landmarks
    for the area. Then, in their fifties, they moved across the country
    and started all over with a hayfield in Enumclaw.

Years later, you would see a six-lane freeway where this part of the lake is. Click here to see the house, garden, freeway, and half a lake from space in 2003.