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Peter Hornbeck was the landscape architect for the Memorial Hall Library front entrance.
 
Broadfields estate, his 14-acre home in Andover, was designed by Percival Gallagher and James Sturges Pray of Olmsted Brothers (Brookline, Mass.) and planted during 1905-1920. The planting style was in the Olmsted "tapestry" mode of rich textural and color effects with the dramatic mingling of rare trees and other flora.  
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Peter Hornbeck, nationally renowned landscape architect, redesigned the Memorial Hall Library front entrance.  He was on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design for 17 years.
Broadfields estate, his 14-acre home in Andover, was designed by Percival Gallagher and James Sturges Pray of Olmsted Brothers (Brookline, Mass.) and planted during 1905-1920. Upon his death on June 3, 1998, he endowed the Hornbeck Fund at Harvard for teaching and research in landscape architecture.


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*'''''Andover Townsman''''' , June 11, 1998
*''Andover Townsman'' , June 11, 1998, page 28.


* '''''Lawrence Eagle Tribune''''', June 4, 1998
* ''Lawrence Eagle Tribune'', June 4, 1998


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Peter Hornbeck in front of his home.... click to enlarge


Peter Hornbeck, nationally renowned landscape architect, redesigned the Memorial Hall Library front entrance. He was on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design for 17 years. Broadfields estate, his 14-acre home in Andover, was designed by Percival Gallagher and James Sturges Pray of Olmsted Brothers (Brookline, Mass.) and planted during 1905-1920. Upon his death on June 3, 1998, he endowed the Hornbeck Fund at Harvard for teaching and research in landscape architecture.

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  • Andover Townsman , June 11, 1998, page 28.
  • Lawrence Eagle Tribune, June 4, 1998


--Glenda 15:06, November 20, 2006 (EST)
--Eleanor (talk) 15:23, 21 April 2016 (EDT)

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