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FabulousINTERIORS BY ELSIE DE WOLFE & CHARLES DUVEEN,1915-1945

Exhibition at Coe Hall Opens March 29th

Magnolias at Planting Fields PHOTO BY BILL BARASH

Tea House by Elsie de Wolfe, Planting Fields 1915 DEAR MEMBERS, WE WARMLY WELCOME FOUR NEW TRUSTEES Last year was notably memorable for the future of Planting Fields because ground was TO PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION broken for the new Sensory Garden. Trustee, Peter Tilles, made a magnificent donation of $400,000 to build the garden and he and other trustees have raised an additional $375,000, mostly from generous local supporters to ensure that the project is completed. MARY CIULLO has spent close to 25 Economics in 1986 from the boards of non-profits such as the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation has years volunteering her time within University of Virginia, where he met Nassau County Museum of Art and committed $400,000. Thank you to everyone for their support. the community. She was actively Susan, a 1985 University of Virginia Foundation House. John and his involved with the Green Vale School, graduate, former CBS News “48 wife, Louise M. Parent, reside in Also in 2013 the Foundation was awarded a major grant in the amount of $250,000 from served as the President of the Hours” producer, and native of and in Mill Neck. the Environmental Protection Fund for the restoration of the Camellia House where work Parents’ Association, was a trustee Portsmouth, Virginia. John’s interests include the visual is expected to start in 2014. From the New York State Council on the Arts we received and officer of the Green Vale School arts and architectural history. $11,700 to help support our school programs in the park. Last year we increased the and served in many capacities JOHN P. CASALY is a retired number of students in those programs by 25%. Furthermore, New York State Department including two Strategic Planning lawyer who started his legal career ANDREAS MAXIMILLIAN of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation was awarded $700,000 in funding through BOARD OF TRUSTEES Committees. Mary is a former at Donovan Leisure Newtown & STENBECK is currently the the Green Innovation Grant Program for the installation of pervious pavement, and bio- Michael D. Coe member of the Parents’ Committee Irvine and was later a partner in Chairman of Verdere Sarl, a Chairman retention structures in our visitors parking lot. for Villanova University and was a Jones Hirsch Connors & Bull, both Swedish investment company, a Hal Davidson trustee and officer of the Maurer in New York City. He is a graduate principal at Basset Investment President It is largely free editorial coverage in newspapers that draws visitors to events at Planting Foundation for Breast Health of Columbia College and Harvard Group, LLC, a private investment Sarah Coe Fields. Our recent press has been remarkably good. For this year’s annual Camellia House Education for many years. She Law School. John has been involved group who provides capital to Vice President Weekend we were featured in Newsday three times in one week, each with one or more resides in Glen Head with her with many non-profit organizations startup e-commerce and Peter Tilles color photographs, and the event was a huge success. Newsday is consistently generous Vice President husband, Robert and has four through the New York City Bar technology driven entrepreneurial with articles about Planting Fields. In November last year the New York Times published a children, C.B., Katharine, Peter and Public Service Network, which businesses, and is a board member Peter Tiberio Sunday Metropolitan section feature article about the Arboretum’s centennial year and Treasurer Brian and two grandchildren. Mary works with both charitable at Modern Holdings, LLC, a private the hundred works of art and artifacts that had been added to the collection at Coe Hall. Margaret Hayes is currently a member of the Knights institutions and volunteers to equity investment fund. Max We have had a Times feature every year over the last five years. The Anton Newspapers, the Secretary and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre. identify and fill pro bono positions attended New York University Locust Valley Leader and the Oyster Bay Guardian are also phenomenal Planting Fields and mentor volunteer relationships. where he concentrated in G. Morgan Browne boosters. Thank you to all of the editors and writers on those newspapers. In February Hannah Burns JEFFREY LEE MOORE and his He has held a number of volunteer economics and history. He is co- PBS broadcast a documentary in their Treasures of New York series “Gold Coast John Casaly wife, Susan, started visiting Locust positions in New York City and on chair of the North Shore Land Mansions”, where Planting Fields was one of the featured estates. For us this is Gib Chapman Valley from New York City in 1995 Long Island and has served on the Alliance Heritage Committee. Mary Ciullo tremendous promotion. Ronald F. Foley and moved out full time in 2007, Robert Foschi with their three young children and For 2014 we have a full roster of events, including four new exhibitions, concerts, lectures, Richard W. Gibney two dogs. Growing up in Louisiana Anne Coe Hayes* musicals in the park, and this year a new program of poetry readings presented in and Texas, Jeff developed a love of Constance Haydock conjunction with the Poetry Society of America. Some of these events are listed in this the outdoors and nature and spent Bruce Herlich newsletter and more will be announced for the summer and fall. I look forward to seeing Jeffrey Lee Moore many summers on his you at Planting Fields. Andreas M. Stenbeck Grandfather’s farm outside Elk Count Ernesto Vitetti* City, Oklahoma. He also has an Jennifer A. Wiggins With Warm Regards, *Emeritus interest in architectural history, Ex Officio which he first studied in high Henry B. Joyce school in New Orleans. Jeff is a Executive Director, Managing Director of Steadfast Planting Fields Foundation Henry B. Joyce Financial, a $5 billion hedge fund Executive Director Vincent A. Simeone based in New York City. He earned Director, Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park an MBA in 1991 from Harvard Business School and a BA in A magnolia in flower at Planting Fields PHOTO: ED FOOTE

2 3 A NEW EXHIBITION OPENS AT COE HALL SATURDAY MARCH 29TH

INTERIORSFabulous

BY ELSIE DE WOLFE & CHARLES DUVEEN 1915 - 1945

Right: Detail of Everett Shinn’s 1915 mural in the Tea House at Planting Fields

BY HENRY B. JOYCE the furnishing of the many original furniture and fittings. Its hired Shinn to paint murals for Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950), the most In 1915 Elsie de Wolfe consulted Elizabethan style interiors, a much gorgeous murals in the French several private commissions in and successful, famous and influential on the of the bigger job than de Wolfe’s. rococo style by Everett Shinn around New York City. Surviving American interior designer of her age, Italian Garden’s Tea House, (signed and dated 1915) glow with in the Tea House today are its six commissioned by Mai Coe. Five Apart from old photographs very brilliant colors against the blue- original wrought iron electric light and Charles Duveen (1871-1940), years later de Wolfe was involved little of Elsie de Wolfe’s work green trellis ceiling, and the room’s fixtures made to look like owner of the established antiques and with the decoration of Mrs. Coe’s survives, which makes the Tea furniture is exquisitely painted by bouquets of flowers painted in interior design company known as bedroom and bathroom-dressing House extremely rare and Shinn with garlands of flowers. He naturalistic colors. They evoke the Charles of London, both worked at room at Coe Hall as it was being historically important because its also painted a charming silhouette famous Sèvres porcelain flowers finished in 1920 by architects trellis interior, utterly distinctive of portrait of Mai Coe on the crest rail made in the 1760s for Madame de Planting Fields for Mr. and Mrs. Walker & Gillette. At the same her French eighteenth century of one of the seat backs. Between Pompadour. The Tea House room William R. Coe. time Charles of London oversaw revival style, survives with all its about 1910 and 1915 de Wolfe had is a masterpiece of de Wolfe’s

4 I 5 most creative interior design. and enhanced by painted walls and profession. It was de Wolfe who the second floor of Henry Clay Despite its diminutive scale it is furniture, essentially her work is a made the use of beautifully printed Frick’s new mansion on 5th Ave one of Planting Fields’ great re-interpretation of the Paris-based and colored floral chintzes and (now The Frick Collection) in the treasures. This year between tradition of informal, luxurious toiles de rigueur for curtains and French eighteenth century style March 29 and Sept 30 the Tea small rooms—the boudoir upholstery and she promoted the (both commissions have been House will be open every day convention—that had originally use of white painted interiors to altered). In contrast, Charles 12:30-2:00pm, free admission. been designed more for the use of enhance the effects of light. Very Duveen, brother of the famous art women than men, starting in the early in her career de Wolfe received dealer Lord Duveen of Millbank, is The exhibition explores the rarefied late seventeenth century. The style the 1905 commission to design the credited with making the Tudor world of fine interiors by two firms has been a continuous current in rooms of the exclusive new style of dark paneled rooms a whose styles of design were very fine rooms ever since. In America women’s on Madison prevalent taste in expensive houses different. Elsie de Wolfe was one of its most successful adherents Avenue which were a stunning on both sides of the Atlantic, using committed to a vocabulary that was and promoters was de Wolfe, from success and quickly established her oak furniture. It is a vocabulary based on high-style French interiors about 1905 when she set up her name as a fashionable decorator. based on the formal court interiors of the eighteenth century, with a New York City-based decorating An equally impressive coup was and state reception rooms of focus on light reflected by mirrors business in a male dominated winning the 1913 job to decorate sixteenth century English monarchs, a more masculine than feminine style of work. Both firms were able to flourish at a time of tremendous growth of American wealth, when big new houses and apartments were being built on an impressive scale. Very importantly Elsie de Wolfe made the interior design profession one where women could flourish. She herself built on the models of both Candice Wheeler (1827-1923) and (1862-1937) who were, in different ways, successful forerunners in the world of decorating. In the twentieth century de Wolfe firmly established a place for ambitious female interior designers to succeed.

De Wolfe’s first career had been as agent. They lived together for over Opposite: An Elsie de Wolfe interior an actress on the New York stage, 25 years. From the mid 1880s they at the Colony Club, 120 Madison Avenue, New York City, about 1907 where she was well known more for spent several summers in France at her exquisite costumes and the Versailles where they had friends Above: A private room of Mrs. Frick’s stylish way she wore them rather and eventually owned a large house, 5th Avenue, New York City, about 1915 than for her average acting skills. It Villa Trianon. De Wolfe became was there that she met her close passionately interested in friend, and probably lover, eighteenth century French interiors. Elizabeth Marbury, who was from a This experience along with the 1900 prominent New York family, and redecoration of her and her was a highly successful theatrical partner’s New York house by the

6 7 At Planting Fields Elsie de Wolfe created stylish and whimsical Cummings, Sister Parish and the World War II, was the international rooms for Mai Coe. Thedlow firm (Lottie Handy, center of new art and design. She Theresa Chalmers and Edna de began using clear bright colors Frise) who worked at Coe Hall in instead of her earlier more muted architect Ogden Codman, in the 1928 for the third Mrs. Coe, palette. She started to use leopard French style that he had promoted Caroline Graham Slaughter (after and zebra printed fabrics mixed in in the book he wrote with Edith Mai Coe died in 1924). They with her habitual floral chintzes, Wharton, The Decoration of Houses worked here again in the 1950s along with luxurious fur rugs and (1897) helped give de Wolfe the decorating a new residence, the throws. There was just a hint of confidence to launch her own Manor House, with elegant French fashionable art deco in her work of career as an interior designer. Her inspired rooms, where Caroline the 1920s; more sparkle in polished business grew rapidly after her moved after her husband’s death. metal surfaces, more mirrored glass work for the Colony Club which for walls than twenty years earlier. opened in 1907. Many club After World War I, Elsie de Wolfe members, all of whom were well-to- lived at her Versailles house, or her In 1926, on her marriage to Sir do women, were out-of-towners and apartment in Paris for at least half Charles Mendl, a British diplomat, gave de Wolfe commissions as far of every year, and she no longer she became Lady Mendl. Now in away as the Midwest and California. lived exclusively with Elizabeth her sixties her life in France She began to make a lot of money Marbury. Villa Trianon was then continued at quite a pace, and she and opened a bigger office and partly paid for by Anne Morgan continued to give her famous show room on 5th Avenue. In 1910 (daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan) Sunday lunches at Villa Trianon. In she and Elizabeth Marbury bought who was close to both Elsie and 1936 she published a memoir, After a fine house on East 55th street Elizabeth. Elsie continued to work, All, which was successful, but the which de Wolfe decorated and but the New York business was run following year, because of her published. She was now a star; she by her brother and sister-in-law. De brother’s mismanagement she was gave lectures on decorating which Wolfe occasionally designed for a forced to close her business, Elsie were turned into a book, ghost few special New York clients that de Wolfe, Inc., and declared written by journalist Ruby Ross included the publisher Condé Nast. bankruptcy (none of her archives Wood, The House of Good Taste (1913) However she lavished attention on survive). She spent the war years in which was a best seller. Wood went her beloved Villa Trianon where she Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, in a on to be a highly successful interior entertained European high society house she named After All which she designer in her own right, and Americans abroad, including decorated, using her famous end- influenced the de Wolfe look. There , whose first musical of-career black and white motif, grew to be a whole raft of mainly comedy (1914) de Wolfe had with the help of the young women decorators working designed sets for, and the future designer Tony Duquette. She successfully in New York City Duchess of Windsor who was a helped launch his extraordinary between about 1920 and 1960, who close friend and client, along with career. In 1946, she returned to her were to a large degree influenced by the Prince of Wales. Immersed in Versailles house and died four Elsie de Wolfe. Among them, in the French beau monde de Wolfe’s years later, her ashes were interred addition to Ruby Ross Wood, were interiors began to reflect a at the famous Paris cemetery, Père Nancy McClelland, Dorothy contemporary chic that she saw Lachaise. Elsie de Wolfe’s life and Draper, Francis Elkins, Rose around her in Paris, which, until work are legendary.

Portrait of Miss Elsie de Wolfe at the Ball, January 31, 1905. From the Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. 8 9 own independent operation. Lord correspondence with William R. Coe Duveen paid Charles an annual fee is mostly cordial, though there are Apart from Coe Hall’s so long as Charles agreed not to use some disagreements about costs. It architects Walker & Gillette, the Duveen name. At Coe Hall, his was one of Coe Hall’s architects, A. Charles Duveen, as head firm, Charles of London, supplied Stewart Walker, who seems to have of his antiques business, roughly 80% of the furnishings. had the most trusted relationship did more to shape the There were over twenty established with Mr. Coe. It appears from their style of the rooms than antique dealers who also sold few surviving letters (where they any other person. furniture to Mr. Coe including Stair address each other by their first & Andrews, Partridges, Lenygon & names) that they were quite friendly By the 1880s his antique dealer Morant, Jacques Seligmann, Elsie de and their wives also corresponded. family, who were Jewish and Dutch, Wolfe, Inc., and French & Company. In the course of building and had created the famous art dealer But today in the archive room at finishing Coe Hall, architect and and decorating business, the Coe Hall there are a limited number patron had their ups and downs but Duveen Brothers of Paris, London of bills or letters between 1920 and Mr. Coe seems to have taken advice and New York. Charles’s father was 1923 for each of those firms, but for from Stewart Walker as leader of Sir Joseph Duveen and his older Charles of London there are the entire project. After the building brother was the famous old master hundreds. He supplied over four was finished in 1920 and as paintings dealer Lord Duveen of hundred decorative art objects, furnishing continued for at least Millbank. There had been various including light fixtures, tapestries, three more years, bills from Charles family quarrels about business tables, chairs, cupboards, beds and of London were sent, not to Mr. which led to Charles heading his even china and linens. Mr. Duveen’s Coe for payment, but to the

Detail of a watercolor showing Mr. Duveen’s own house in England (Private Collection)

Bronze bust of Charles Duveen (Private Collection)

10 11 antique and interior design house.” Similar issues arose from business was highly regarded (even time to time with paintings. Mrs. if a little old fashioned compared Coe had the seat furniture, today in with the lighter touch of Elsie de the reception room, delivered, also Wolfe’s newer design successes). owned by Seligmanns, to see if it would work well in the room, it Mr. and Mrs. Coe were intensively did, and they bought the suite. The More of this story is told involved with the building and curtains for her bedroom were in our new exhibition, with decoration of Coe Hall. They often made from fabric that she had on rare and fascinating asked for furnishings and hand and passed on to Charles of Martifacts kindly loaned paintings to be delivered pending London to be sewn up. These kind from descendents of approval; in September 1921, Mr. of details recorded in the archives, Charles Duveen. It opens Coe wrote to the Paris dealer of which there are many more, at Coe Hall on Saturday Germain Seligmann about a enable us to recreate the rich and March 29th (Members tapestry that was at Coe Hall on fascinating history about the Preview Friday, March 28th approval, asking that it be building and decoration of Coe 5:30-7:30pm) and runs exchanged because, “it has been Hall, one of the few great surviving through September 30th. hung and it looks very dead in the mansions on Long Island.

A recent photo of the den at Coe Hall

Detail of a watercolor showing Mr. Duveen’s own house in England (Private Collection)

architects who continued their Although the Coe Hall archives decoration was a taste that had oversight. At the same time Charles might not be complete, the been established for over twenty- Duveen and Mr. Coe invoices that are extant for what five years, both in England and the communicated directly about what was supplied by Charles Duveen , where it had been purchases were appropriate for the totaled roughly $450,000 (about $6 widely promoted in books and house. In 1923, Mr. Coe wrote to million today). Mr. Coe spent a magazines. In 1920, Charles Frank Partridge, one of his London further $75,000 (about $950,000 Duveen was very successful; he lived dealers, that Charles Duveen “had today) on purchases from other in New York City, had a house in been responsible for a great deal of antique dealers. Hastings-on-Hudson, where he the decoration and furnishing of sailed on the river, and a house in my house and I have paid him an By 1920, the rather conservative England. He ran a large show room enormous amount of money.” Tudor or Elizabethan style of room in mid-town Manhattan where his

12 13 FANTASTICCHERRIES FLOWERING Facing page: Prunus serrulata ‘Shirofugen’. Above: Prunus mume

One especially spectacular variety of March while most other cherry arboretum attracting thousands of BY VINCENT A. SIMEONE, DIRECTOR OF PLANTING FIELDS ARBORETUM cherry that is also ideal for the species bloom in May. visitors who want to gaze at the One of the most striking floral displays each spring at the arboretum are the cherry home gardener is a variety called colorful clouds of flowers that ‘Hally Jolivette’. This semi-dwarf But probably the most popular and they offer. blossoms. Each year, dozens of trees put on a spectacular floral display of white, variety can be found in the Italian favorite of all of the spring pale pink and rosy pink that illuminate the landscape. Garden, and along the Tea House. blooming cherries is Oriental The cherries are a great This old fashion variety offers Flowering Cherry (P. serrulata). complement to other flowering petite, pale pink flowers and a Two very striking varieties include trees, such as magnolias and rounded growth habit to about 12’ ‘Shirofugen’, with pure white, dogwoods, and typically flower These clouds of pastel colors can be Ornamental Cherries (Prunus sp.) Higan Cherries (P. subhirtella tall. In the summer, the small ruffled flowers surrounded by new along with these other garden found dotting the landscape around date back to the Coe family, who ‘Pendula’) along the Camellia Lawn pointed leaves are deep, emerald bronze foliage, and ‘Royal favorites. One unique feature of the Main Greenhouse, Camellia also used them regularly in the to replace older specimens that green turning brilliant shades of Burgundy’ with deep burgundy the flowering cherries is that as Greenhouse, Coe Hall, Manor landscape. Early photographs show had died, massive Yoshino Cherries yellow, orange and red in the foliage accented by showy pink their flowers fade, the soft petals House, Haybarn and the Main beautiful weeping cherries flanking (P. x yedoensis) planted along the autumn. One of the newest species flowers. Many interesting varieties of fall to the grounds giving the Lawn. The two biggest the drive from Coe Hall to the North Border, and the early of Prunus that have been added to Oriental Flowering Cherry can be feeling that it is snowing in spring. concentrations of ornamental greenhouse. However, since the blooming Okame Cherries (P. x our collection is the very early found near the Manor House, Like many other popular cherry groupings are at the Play 1970s, many new species and ‘Okame’) planted as single blooming flowering Apricot(Prunus Haybarn and the Play House. landscape plants, we will continue House and flanking the drive varieties have been added to our specimens or groupings near the mume). These adaptable, durable to plant new and improved between both the Main and collection. Among our most Hay Barn, Manor House, and the plants come in a wide variety of Ornamental Cherries are a varieties of Ornamental Cherries Camellia Greenhouses. notable specimens are the Weeping Synoptic Garden. colors, and typically bloom in significant spring feature at the for the visiting public to enjoy.

14 15 Paris. Lowell’s partner and brother- Sargent also aided Mr. Coe in the 1914: A GLIMPSE in-law, A. Robeson Sargent (1882- selection of gardeners, and made 1918) was a fellow Harvard several recommendations for him OF THE COE FAMILY ONE graduate, where his father was a including a gardener who worked HUNDRED YEARS AGO professor of arboriculture and first on the estate of J. P. Morgan. Coe director of the . mandated that at least one BY FRANK J. SMITH, CURATORIAL ASSISTANT Sargent’s father was a friend of Mai gardener live in the greenhouse “so Coe’s father, H.H. Rogers, which is that matters of fires, etc., would be almost certainly how he and Lowell continually under his supervision.” came to work for the Coes. He was an insurance executive after all! Mr. and Mrs. William R. Coe Since 1910 Mr. Coe had been grand country places in the United The most significant project for had purchased Planting President and C.E.O. of the marine States. English estates usually grew 1914 was the building of the Main Other tasks carried out in 1914 Fields in December 1913 and insurance firm, Johnson & Higgins, in their magnificence over several Greenhouse, and by no means was included the planting of the so the following year, exactly and was also a director of the generations of ownership, but here this a modest greenhouse of its time, parkland with many tree seedlings, one hundred years ago, they Virginian Railway, which had been in the United States, one hundred even before the Hibiscus house, the purchased from the New York were able to embark on founded in 1907 by his father-in- years ago, during extraordinarily fast largest of the spaces which was Conservation Commission, which ambitious improvements to law, H.H. Rogers, and from which industrial and economic growth, added in 1929. Designed and had been founded in 1902 to Contract for the Main Greenhouse, 1914 the property that they had his wife Mai was receiving a huge numbers of country estates supervised by Lowell and Sargent, promote the reforestation of areas in rented since 1911 and for considerable income. Owning a fine were built and embellished in one construction commenced under the New York State that had been that had been built in 1906 by S building firm, Lord and Burnham, decimated by logging. Today the Grosvenor Atterbury for James which they, undoubtedly, had property on Long Island’s North single generation, with all the bells all sorts of plans in mind. Shore was part and parcel of a and whistles of places that had once well known for building the best Conservation Commission is part of Byrne and his wife. In 1914 the Coes particular way of life for a family taken a hundred years or more in greenhouses in the Northeast. The the state’s Department of also paid New York Telephone to with social ambitions—the Europe. The economic cost of World foundation and glass frame for the Environmental Conservation (they bury the unsightly overhead equivalent of a box at the opera or War I and its aftermath caused the structure was $20,275 (about give out tree seedlings on Arbor Day telephones wires underground at a building an art collection, or all of failure and destruction of many $474,265 today) and there were also each year at Planting Fields). The cost of $285 (about $6,200 today). the above. The convention of a English country houses, but in a few unforeseen expenses that the trees ordered and planted were Improvements to the farm included country house as an escape from the America in 1914, three years before Coes incurred for this project, cedars, scotch and red pine, and oak. buying six new work horses. While noise and bustle of city life has entering the war, the continuing adding $20,180 to the initial cost Other shrubs and trees came from the family wanted to improve and existed since antiquity and the prosperity, at least for many like the (about $472,040 today). By summer the former Fairhaven, Massachusetts expand many aspects of the estate, magnificence of Planting Fields, and Coe family, permitted the building construction was continuing rapidly estate of H.H. Rogers, who died in they also wanted to buy some of the its surviving completeness, makes it of estates. It was the great crash of and by November Mr. Coe wrote to 1909 (His country house was to be furniture owned by the Byrnes, from one of the last great examples of its 1929 that caused the end of estate his son, Robert, who was away at torn down in 1915). These plantings whom they had bought the type. Both the rolling landscape and building on Long Island, and by that school, that “the greenhouses are were the cause of some confusion property; three payments totaling the revival style of the house are in time Planting Fields was a prime finished and are stocked.” A because Mr. and Mrs. Coe had $4,600 (about $101,000 today) were the English manner, and were example of the last great flowering multitude of equipment, heating selected several trees without paid for the furniture. designed for a man—Mr. Coe—who of country estate building. systems, plumbing and supplies realizing H.H. Rogers Jr., Mai’s was born in England and came to were required to get the greenhouse brother, who had first pick, had not Along with Planting Fields the Coe America as a teenager; it was here he To begin their embellishment of the started. The Kohler Brothers were already made his selections; family also owned their residence at made his fortune. The English, property, the Coes hired the used to install the plumbing, and eventually the problem was resolved. 6 East 83rd St. in Manhattan, and because of their vast and expanding architectural firm of Guy Lowell while on the property, also installed The lawns around the big house their ranch at Irma Lake, WY. wealth between about 1600 and and A. Roland Sargent. Guy Lowell several fire hydrants. In the finished were also renovated, since they were During 1914, the ranch was 1900, came to build more fine (1870-1927) came from a greenhouse flowers were grown and very thin and full of weeds. Sargent expanded to 100,000 acres which country estates than anywhere else distinguished family, and sent to Mrs. Coe daily for their New proposed working in humus to 9.5 accommodated 10,000 cattle. When in Europe, and these places were graduated from Harvard and M.I.T. York City home, as well as fresh acres of lawn. Minor improvements in Wyoming they did not want to be recognized signs of high social He had also studied at the École des fruits and vegetables, giving the included the replacement of the removed from the events happening Detail of the gallery at Coe Hall standing. They became a model for Beaux Arts, the famous art school in greenhouse a practical use as well. gutters on the existing main house in New York, and had copies of the

16 17 Paul’s include three presidential performance was about average to When not discussing school work Mr. Coe and his wife kept busy that year (about $4,200 today). candidates, six members of congress, somewhat below average, and both the boys and Mr. Coe loved to socially and belonged to a myriad They also loved travel, but their and 13 ambassadors. Eventually Robert usually excelled and hovered discuss the fortunes of the race of different social and sporting trips abroad were curtailed by Robert D. Coe was one of these around second and third highest in horses their father owned. The clubs. One club Mr. Coe belonged World War I. They visited France in ambassadors, serving as American his class. Mr. Coe motivated his boys took considerable interest in to in 1914 was India House. This April of 1914, but that was their ambassador to Denmark during the children to do their best at school their success and even borrowed club, which still exists, was last trip abroad until the end of Eisenhower administration. William, with a mixture of rewards, newspapers from classmates to try established that same year and the hostilities in 1918. They supported the oldest son, was attending the encouragement, and admonishment. to follow the races. Mr. Coe would membership was predominately of a wide variety of causes through school as early as 1912, and Robert’s In one harsh letter Mr. Coe wrote also often include in his letters gentlemen involved in the marine charity. The Coes helped support first year was the fall of 1914. A that if William did not improve his how the horses were doing. The business. The club was conveniently the community in Oyster Bay, and typical school day at St. Paul’s performance, “You will be the horses, “Election Bet”, “Piping located close to the office of donated to the Oyster Bay Fire according to Robert Coe’s letter of laughing stock of the school and of Hot”, and “Molly Gray” did well, Johnson & Higgins, and must have Department, Oyster Bay Library September 1914, consisted of the everyone who knows you”. Mr. Coe while the horse “Hafiz” turned out served as a place for Mr. Coe to and hospitals. The Coes did not fail following: the students would wake and Mrs. Coe visited St. Paul’s once to be a disappointment and was entertain and network while he was to recognize the destruction World at 7:00am, eat breakfast at 7:30am, during the year, and stayed at the sold at the end of the year. Other President and CEO of Johnson & War I was inflicting on the people attend chapel at 8:15am; the first Alumni House. topics of interest included the Higgins. When not socializing at a of Europe and gave $600.00 (about session of classes was from 8:45am ranch in Wyoming, the family club, the Coes also enjoyed theater. $13,000 today) to aid the people of to 12:45pm. The students had a When not studying or attending dogs, and Mr. Coe’s hunting and The ledger for 1914 reveals that the Belgium who suffered invasion by break between 1:00pm and 4:40pm class, William and Robert were fishing trips. family spent $194 on theater tickets the German Army. where they ate lunch and had some involved in several extra -curricular Mai Coe and her daughter, Natalie, in 1914 free time. Classes resumed at activities. Both boys played football, 4:40pm and lasted until 6:15pm. and Mai wanted to make sure their New York Herald and the Sun Supper was served at 6:30pm, and uniforms were warm enough. The forwarded to the ranch. from 7:10pm to 8:10pm was the football games at St. Paul’s were designated time to study. Lights out divided into three teams called The projects at Planting Fields must was at 9:00pm sharp each night. “clubs.” William and Robert played have been exciting to watch unfold, Packages sent to the children were on the “Isthmian”, which they especially for children. The two monitored by the faculty, and in considered the best team. The other oldest of their four children, William November of 1914 Robert had to teams were “Old Hundred” and Rogers Coe, age 13, and Robert write his father to tell him that the “Delphian.” William played left Douglas Coe, age 12, were enrolled sending of cake was not allowed. guard and Robert was right tackle. at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Robert spent the better part of half a Hampshire. The letters William and The class schedule at St. Paul’s page outlining the “trick play” the Robert sent home and Mr. Coe’s included many diverse subjects, team intended to use in their replies provide an intimate glimpse several of which would seem upcoming game. Robert ran track, into the Coe’s family life, as well as unusual in a high school classroom William was a member of the choir, the rigors of boarding school life today. During 1914 William took and both enjoyed ice skating. during this time. The youngest classes in Latin, Greek, French, children, Henry and Natalie, age 7 Algebra, English, History, Sacred Mr. Coe considered writing home and 4 respectively, remained with Studies, Arithmetic, and Manual frequently to be essential and even the family under the care of a Arts. Robert’s course load was much considered letter writing a part of governess. St. Paul’s School was the same, but substituted Sacred their education. Robert was always founded in 1856 as an Episcopalian Studies for Mythology. Their marks more diligent about writing home, boarding school for boys which was were a frequent point of and Mr. Coe sometimes asked modeled on the English public conversation in the letters between Robert to tell his older brother to Above left: Mr. and Mrs. Coe and their two eldest children, William and Robert about 1914, at Niagara Falls. school tradition. Graduates of St. Mr. Coe and his sons. William’s keep in more frequent contact. Above right: Letter from Robert Coe to his father, 1914

18 19 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPY AT PLANTING FIELDS

The tradition of wedding photographs at Planting Fields started with Natalie Coe’s wedding in 1934. Since then the arboretum and beautiful gardens surrounding Coe Hall have been a perfect setting for couples who wish to chronicle their wedding day and begin creating memories that will last a life time.

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A. Yovino-Woodward B. Bruno-Linzalone C. Bassford-Chessen D. Count Leonardo Vitteti and Natalie Coe D E. Bruno-Linzalone For more information about obtaining a photo permit please contact the parks permit office at 516-922-8604. Photo Credit: Bill Barash 20 21 COE HALL OPEN FOR THE SEASON – MARCH 29TH – SEPTEMBER 30TH / 11:30AM-3:30PM DAILY / WEEKENDS ONLY IN OCTOBER SELF-GUIDED VISITS - $4.00 FOR NON-MEMBERS/FREE FOR MEMBERS / PARK OPEN DAILY 9:00AM-5:00PM TEA HOUSE OPEN DAILY 12:30 -2:00PM THROUGH SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH, 2014 APRIL Preview Reception SUNDAY, APRIL 6TH, 2014 Exhibition in the Manor House – MARCH favorite hair color) or red (Charles Duveen’s Lecture at Coe Hall – Watercolor Orchids at MARCH - MAY trademark velvet color) encouraged. Charles of London, The English Planting Fields by Andrey CALENDAR OF Wine and cheese will be served. Country House & Coe Hall Avinoff (1886-1949) FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2014 For more information or reservations call 2:00pm / Lecture is FREE 5:30pm – 7:30pm Opening Night & Preview Party – Jennifer Lavella (516) 922-8678 or email with $4 admission to Coe Hall Members free / $10.00 non-members EVENTS Fabulous Interiors by Elsie de Wolfe & [email protected]. reservations required Charles Duveen, 1915-1945 and $8 parking fee 5:30pm – 7:30pm at Coe Hall SATURDAY, MARCH 29TH, 2014 Admit it, watching Downton Abbey gives Russian émigré Andrey Avinoff painted nearly one $10 members / $20 non-members Fabulous Interiors by Elsie de Wolfe & you goose bumps. You have always hundred watercolors of orchids, many of the specimens Charles Duveen, 1915-1945 owned by William R. Coe of Planting Fields. Mostly Fabulous Interiors by Elsie de Wolfe & wanted to live in an English country On display daily 11:30am – 3:30pm painted in 1947 and 1948, the watercolors are now Charles Duveen, 1915-1945 is the new house or at least have thought about it. March through September at Coe Hall privately owned. Thirty paintings will be on loan for spring 2014 exhibition at Coe Hall. Enjoy Hear about Coe Hall’s interior designer, Members free / $4.00 non-members the Manor House exhibition. Several watercolors sounds of the American Songbook on our Charles of London (Charles Duveen no parking fee show orchids which we still grow in the Main newly restored 1913 Steinway grand piano from the famous Duveen family of art dealers), who was borrowing straight Greenhouse at Planting Fields. This show is in played by Jack Kohl. Dress is fashionably Exhibition opens and continues through conjunction with the Nassau County Museum of Art festive with the color blue (Elsie de Wolfe’s September. from English country houses and their eclectic antiquarian styles. His interiors “Garden Party” exhibition. at Coe Hall and influences for the Please call Michelle Benes to make a reservation for the design will be discussed at this lecture Preview Reception at (516) 922-8682 or email by Gwendolyn L. Smith, Curator of [email protected]. SATURDAY, MARCH 29TH, 2014 Planting Fields Foundation. Broadway Sings Cole Porter at Coe Hall Reservations are required. For SATURDAY, APRIL 12TH, 2014 – MAY 11TH, 2014 7:00pm – 10:00pm at Coe Hall / $20 Members / $40 non-members / no parking fee information call Antigone Zaharakis Exhibition in the Manor House – Watercolor Orchids (516) 922-8668 or email at Planting Fields by Andrey Avinoff (1886-1949) Stars from Broadway’s biggest shows including Lisa Howard from 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, [email protected]. Exhibit open to the general public / 11:30 - 3:30 daily / free with $8 parking fee Jerry Gallagher from Guys and Dolls, Kelly McCormick from Les Miserables, and John Cudia from Phantom of the Opera sing Cole Porter’s best known songs and gems from Broadway hits. All songs are accompanied by our 1913 Steinway grand piano played by pianist Jack Kohl. Join us after this special concert for a chance to meet the performers at a wine and cheese reception! For reservations call Lilly McGurk (516) 922-8676 or email [email protected]. SATURDAY, APRIL 19TH, 2014 The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, presented by the Theatre Three of Port Jefferson 3:00pm – 4:00pm at Coe Hall / free with $4 admission fee to Coe Hall / $8 parking fee Coe Hall will become a theatre for Theatre Three’s production of their original play The Adventures of Peter SUNDAY, MARCH 30TH, 2014 Rabbit. Hop over to Coe Hall for this fun and spirited production! General seating, come early. Glamorous Design Lecture at Coe Hall Information: Antigone Zaharakis (516) 922-8668 or [email protected]. Eileen Kathryn Boyd, interior designer of New York and Long Island speaks about her design work, design trends and influences SATURDAY, APRIL 26TH AND SUNDAY, APRIL 27TH 2014 2:00pm / Members free / $15 non-members / no parking fee 2014 Arbor Day Family Festival Eileen Kathryn Boyd, interior designer, whose stylish residential 10:00am – 5:00pm (rain or shine) / $20 per car load and commercial interior design projects have been featured in Once inside the park all activities are FREE! House Beautiful, Traditional Home, and New York Spaces will New performances by steel drummer Robert Mitrea in the Main Greenhouse, join us in the Great Hall to talk about her colorful, glamorous, and Frank Pedulla’s Brass Band! Live musical shows by the crowd favorites and fashionable projects. Meet one of the country's top Peat Moss and the Fertilizers, Strummin N Drummin, kid’s tree climb by designers who works right here on Long Island and Manhattan Wonderland Tree Care, petting zoo, face painting, TR Sanctuary, caricaturist, with a range of discriminating clients, and has a textile collection plant clinics, tree planting with Smokey the Bear, FREE self-guided visits of Coe with Duralee fabrics. Find out top design trends and what has Hall and enjoy FREE admission to our new exhibition about Elsie de Wolfe and influenced her in designing and decorating exciting spaces. Charles Duveen on display at Coe Hall. The festival is a collaborative effort www.ekbinteriors.com. For reservations and more information between Planting Fields Foundation and the New York State Office of Parks, call Jennifer Lavella (516) 922-8678 or email Recreation and Historic Preservation. For more information contact Jennifer [email protected]. Lavella at (516) 922-8678 or email [email protected].

22 23 SUNDAY, MAY, 4TH, 2014 SATURDAY, MAY 10TH, 2014 MAY Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND CALENDAR OF Reading Family Pancake Breakfast 2:00pm / Coe Hall / free with $4 admission at Coe Hall EVENTS $8 parking fee 10:00am – 11:30am $8 parking fee Join us for a special poetry reading of Edna $15.00 Members, adults & children St. Vincent Millay’s poems read by Alice $20.00 non-members, adults & children Quinn, Executive Director of the Poetry IN MEMORY OF Society of America and Mary Stewart Bring the family to a fun and entertaining Hammond, a celebrated contemporary poet. pancake breakfast. Enjoy an original recipe GORDON E. JONES called Barbara Pancakes from Elsie’s book FRIDAY, MAY 9TH, 2014 Recipes for Successful Dining. These delicious pancakes topped with whip Move Night at Coe Hall – BY VINCENT A. SIMEONE To Catch a Thief cream, vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, and walnuts were a favorite of Elsie's. Enjoy 7:00pm / free breakfast at Coe Hall, watch a master Gordon E. Jones passed away in camellias in the Camellia York Hortus Club and received Join us for this classic. Take a tour of the balloon twister and a take a tour of the Fabulous Interiors by Elsie de Wolfe & Fabulous Interiors by Elsie de Wolfe & Oneonta, New York on December Greenhouse and the tropical plants numerous horticultural awards Charles Duveen, 1915-1945 exhibition. Charles Duveen, 1915-1945 exhibition. 16th, 2013, he was 92. Gordon was a in the Main Greenhouse. In the early including the Gold Medal Award For more information contact Jennifer Call Michelle Benes at (516) 922-8682 or legendary figure in horticulture and 1960s, he, along with the arboretum from the American Rhododendron Lavella (516) 922-8678 or email email [email protected] for served as the first Director of staff, designed and built the 5 acre Society and the Gold Medal of [email protected]. reservations or more information. Planting Fields when it transitioned Synoptic Garden, which is still the Horticulture Award from the New from a private estate to a public largest and most unique of its kind York State Nurseryman’s facility, from 1957 to 1993. in the U.S. It is a diverse collection Association, The Long Island SATURDAY, MAY 17TH, 2014 of trees, shrubs, perennials and Nursery and Landscape Into the Garden: Plein Air Painting Gordon lived a full and amazing life, bulbs that are arranged Association’s Man of the Year and with Annie Shaver-Crandell touching so many along the way. He alphabetically by botanical name was given an honorary lifetime 10:00am – 3:00pm / free with $8 parking fee / meet at the end grew up in upstate, New York in and is still used regularly by membership by the New York of the west parking lot by the Main Greenhouse Jefferson County and attended students, professionals and Hortus Club. Elsie de Wolfe, subject of Planting Field’s 2014 exhibition, loved Cornell University studying homeowners. In 1993, when the garden as an influence on her interior designs. Come be Ornamental Horticulture. After Gordon retired from Planting I met Gordon in 1992 when I started inspired by the gardens and landscapes at Planting Fields and graduation he served in the U.S. Fields, the garden was officially as an intern at Planting Fields. paint with Annie Shaver-Crandell, member of the Salmagundi Club in New York. Materials are artist’s choice (oil, acrylic, or Army with the 17th Airborne named the Gordon E. Jones While we only worked together for a watercolor) and space is limited to 20 participants. Bring a bag Division, also acting as the aide to Synoptic Garden. In his honor, the year and a half, we kept in touch lunch or purchase snacks at the café. A list of suggested General Joseph V. Phelps. Upon hybrid rhododendron ‘Gordon and would walk the grounds materials will be emailed to participants prior to the workshop. leaving the Army with the rank of Jones’ was introduced, a tribute that together during many visits he For more information contact Jennifer Lavella (516) 922-8678 or Captain, he joined Robson Seed he was very proud of. This special would make to the arboretum. [email protected]. Company and was in charge of rhododendron is still available in There is no doubt that Gordon Plein Air Landscape Painting with Annie Shaver-Crandell flower seed research and seed trials. the trade today and can be found in Jones played a major role in the North Rhododendron Park near developing Planting Fields into a In 1957, after interviewing for the Coe Hall. world-class arboretum. Gordon was job by the urging of a colleague, he a kind and gentle soul and had the SATURDAY, MAY 24TH, 2014 – MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND became the Director of Planting He played important leadership unique ability to motivate people to Summer Concert in the Park at Coe Hall (West Portico) Fields. Gordon loved Planting Fields roles in numerous plant societies work towards a common goal. 5:30pm – 7:30pm / free / no parking fee and was greatly influential in and horticultural organizations “Red, White & Blues” Brass Ensemble, Performed by Chamber Players International. building the large holly, magnolia including The Holly Society of On January 4th, I attended a Bring a chair, blanket, and an outdoor picnic to enjoy the beauty of great music, and conifer collections. He also America, the American memorial service along with former Planting Fields and Coe Hall! For more information contact Jennifer Lavella at helped to enhance an already Rhododendron Society, the Assistant Director, Dave Barnett. It (516) 922-8678 or [email protected]. impressive rhododendron collection. American Association of Botanical was a touching ceremony filled with Gordon adored the vast collection of Gardens and Arboreta and the New fond memories and amazing stories.

24 25 DONORS 2013 A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION’S 2013 DONORS. YOUR SUPPORT STANDS BEHIND ALL THAT WE DO!

A.O. Fox Hospital Clinical Mr. and Mrs. Gib Chapman, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goldsmith Long Island Daylily Society Nutrition Dept Mr. Edward Chernoff Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Gonthier Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lorusso Ms. Jule Abreu Ms. Cathy Chernoff Harbor Day Care Center, Inc. Ms. Sharon Love Mr. and Mrs. Bulent Acar Mrs. Jane Choate Ms. Tara Hart and Mr. Ed Tam Ms. Linda Lynch Mr. Warren Achenbaum Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Ciullo Mr. and Mrs. John Havens MandA Nurseries Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ainslie, III Mrs. Rita Cleary Ms. Constance Haydock M. H. Rose Interiors Ltd. Ambrose Monnell Foundation Dr. Michael D. Coe Ms. Margaret Hayes Mr. and Mrs. David Mack American Rhododendron Society Ms. Sarah Coe Mr. Anthony Heckel The David and Sondra Mack Dr. Abby Aronowitz Mr. and Mrs. John Colgate Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Henning, Jr. Foundation, Inc. Atlantic Nurseries Mr. and Mrs. Peter Colgrove Henry Schein Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Mackay Mr. Roger L. Bahnik Mr. and Mrs. John Collett Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Herlich Mr. and Mrs. Peter MacKinnon The Bahnik Foundation, Inc. Missey Condie Ms. Amy Herling and Mr. Ken Cozza Ms. Nancy Magnatta Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bancroft Mr. and Mrs. Elliot S. Conway Mr. Guy Hildebrandt Mainsail Development, LLC Mr. Vincent C. Banker Mr. Roger Cooper Mrs. Maria Gawrilowa Hindenburg Mr. and Mrs. David Maisel Ms. Louise Barry Mr. Patrick Corcoran Ms. Sharon Hodgetts Ms. J. Marcin Dr. and Mrs. Robert Bass Ms. Victoria Crawford Mrs. Hedwig Hoffman Mr. Gary Martin Ms. Julianne W. Beckerman Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cron The Marion O. and Maximillian Martin Viette Nursery Ms. Karen Bene Mr. and Mrs. Hal Davidson E. Hoffman Foundaiton, Inc. Mr. Philip Martone Mr. and Mrs. Rod Berens Mrs. Preston Davis Mr. and Mrs. Ingolf Holm-Andersen Ms. Theresa Mathes Ms. Marion Berenson Mrs. Dorothy DeAngelis Dr. and Mrs. Steven Holzman Mrs. William L. Matheson Mr. Stanley Bergman DeLaCour Family Foundation Mrs. Bruce Duff Hooton Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCurdy Mr. Bob Bernard Mr. and Mrs. Breck Denny Mrs. Theodora Hooton Mr. Christopher McEvoy Mr. Andrean Bertok Mr. and Mrs. Humbert DeTomaso Mr. and Mrs. James Hoover Mr. and Mrs. Morgan McLanahan Dr. John Biordi and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Deutsch Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hopkinson Meg Braff Designs Dr. Donna-Marie McMahon DiFazio Power and Electric, Inc. Mr. Ron. J. Horowitz Ms. Anita K. 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