Built c. 1777 (1777)-1784 VLR # 029-0025 Phone +1 703-642-5173 | NRHP Reference # 03001089 Area 4 ha Added to NRHP 22 October 2003 | |
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Architect Farrand, Beatrix; Macomber, Walter Address 4603 Green Spring Rd, Alexandria, VA 22312, USA Hours Closed now Thursday9AM–4:30PMFriday9AM–4:30PMSaturday9AM–4:30PMSunday9AM–4:30PMMonday9AM–4:30PMTuesday9AM–4:30PMWednesday9AM–4:30PM Similar Hidden Oaks Nature C, Frying Pan Farm Park, Colvin Run Mill, Sully Historic Site, Huntley Meadows Park | ||
Fall garden days 2012 at green spring gardens park alexandria va
Green Spring Gardens (31 acres) is a public park located at 4603 Green Spring Road, Alexandria, Virginia. It is operated by the Fairfax County Park Authority, and open daily without charge.
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The park includes Green Spring, a national historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The district encompasses 2 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures located within a park, Green Spring Gardens, owned by the Fairfax County Park Authority. It includes the brick farmhouse, built about 1777-1784, a 19th-century spring house, a family cemetery, archaeological site, subterranean brick vault, and a small 4-chambered stone structure. The property's landscape was redesigned in 1942, in the Colonial Revival style by noted landscape architects Beatrix Farrand and Walter Macomber. The house and grounds were donated to Fairfax County in 1970 by publisher Michael Whitney and Belinda Straight.
Estate gardens feature boxwood hedging, roses, and perennial borders. The park also contains a tropical greenhouse, a wooded stream valley with ponds and gazebo, a naturalistic native plant garden, and over 20 demonstration gardens. It is a member of the North American Plant Collections Consortium for its Hamamelis collection (130 taxa, including all 4 species).