Hornbeck, Peter

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.

See

• Andover Townsman , June 11, 1998

• Lawrence Eagle Tribune, June 4, 1998

--Glenda 15:06, November 20, 2006 (EST)

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