Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Bayou Bend | |
English Regency | |
NRHP reference No. | 79002954[1] |
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Added to NRHP | December 6, 1979 |
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, located in the
Mansion and gardens
The mansion, designed by architect
Miss Hogg created a series of gardens that were intended as outdoor rooms for living and entertaining. In 1957, Miss Hogg donated her home and her collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Bayou Bend opened to the public in 1966.
Staub's plan for Bayou Bend combined eighteenth-century Georgian architecture with elements that are distinctly Southern and of Spanish Creole architecture. Other aspects of Bayou Bend's design are borrowed from Southern plantation houses. The interiors borrow more heavily from the architectural traditions of the North. Staub incorporated floorboards and paneling from two eighteenth-century Massachusetts houses in Miss Hogg's bedroom and sitting room.[5] In February 1999, the city of Houston named Bayou Bend an official city landmark.[6]
The heavily wooded 14 acres (5.7 ha) along Buffalo Bayou include eight formal gardens. Three of the gardens are named for a statue of a goddess or muse displayed in the garden, Clio, Diana and Euturpe. The other gardens are named White, East, Butterfly and Carla.[7] In September 2008, the winds of Hurricane Ike caused extensive damage to the gardens. Although none of the statues were damaged, between 65 and 70% of the pine trees on the grounds had fallen, as had an American holly tree, which at 55 feet (17 m) was the tallest of its kind in Harris County, Texas. Bart Brechter, the Curator of Gardens at the museum, estimated that it would take 5 months to clear the debris and could take years to bring the gardens to their former state.[4]
Collection
The collection at Bayou Bend presently consists of approximately 4,700 objects that reflect historic and stylistic periods from 1620 to 1870 installed in some 28 period room settings that showcase American decorative arts from 1620 through 1870.[8][9] Miss Hogg began assembling this important collection of American decorative arts in 1920. To provide suitable settings for these extraordinary antiques, Staub designed simple but stately interiors in the style of colonial American rooms.
In 1920, while sitting for a portrait by artist
See also
Notes
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Stephen Fox. "Bayou Bend". Handbook of Texas Online. Archived from the original on 13 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
- ^ "The Bayou Bend Museum". Archived from the original on 25 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
- ^ a b c d Gray, Lisa (September 14, 2008). "Years of botanical care gone with the wind". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved September 18, 2008.
- ^ "Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, History of Bayou Bend, Hogg Mansion". Retrieved 2008-03-23.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Byars, Carlos (February 4, 1999). "Council works quickly, OKs 27 new landmarks". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
- ^ "River Oaks Garden Club - Bayou Bend". Archived from the original on 11 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
- ^ "The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bayou Bend Collection". Archived from the original on 2009-11-26. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
- ^ "Bayou Bend Collections and Gardens, Houston, Texas". Archived from the original on 24 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
- ^ "The Museum of Fine Arts, History of Bayou Bend, The Collection". Retrieved 2008-03-23.[permanent dead link]
External links
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