Label:
In 1902, George Owen Knapp, president of Union Carbide, spent $40,000 (well over $800,000 in today's dollars) to build an Italian-style garden for his Lake George estate. Featuring a kitchen garden and a large, formal ornamental garden with terracing, a large pool, a rose bed, and rustic gazebos, the plantings lasted into the 1930s. The mansion did not, burning to the ground in 1917 after an electrical fire started in the cable car that took guests from the dock to the main house.
Photographer:
Stoddard, Seneca Ray
Date:
1891-1891
Catalog #:
P028159
Object Name:
Photograph
Slide #:
6 of 28
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