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Helen (Dupuy) Van Pelt Fall 2018 Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society Volume 21, Number 4 Contents Helen Dupuy VanPelt: Quiet Pioneer Marlea Graham ......................................................................................................................................4 JOURNAL OF THE CALIFORNIA GARDEN & LANDSCAPE HISTORY SOCIETY Royston and Stein Gardens, EDEN EDITORIAL BOARD Mill Valley, California, 1947-Present Guest Editor: Steven Keylon JC Miller .............................................................................................................................................14 Editorial Board: Phoebe Cutler, Steven Keylon, Keith Park, Ann Scheid, Libby Simon, Jennifer Trotoux The Marin Art and Garden Center Consulting Editors: Marlea Graham, Barbara Marinacci Carol Roland Nawi .......................................................................................................................... Regional Correspondents: 26 Bay Area: Phoebe Cutler San Diego: Vonn Marie May Graphic Design: designSimple.com Submissions: Send scholarly papers, articles, and book reviews to the editor: [email protected] Memberships/Subscriptions: Join the CGLHS and receive a subscription to Eden. Individual $40 • Family $60 Sustaining $100 and above Student $20 Nonprofit/Library $50 Visit www.cglhs.org to join or renew your membership. Or mail check to California Garden & Landscape History Society, PO Box 220237, Newhall, CA 91322-0237. Questions or Address Changes: [email protected] CGLHS BOARD OF DIRECTORS President: Christine E. O’Hara Vice President: Libby Simon Recording Secretary: Nancy Carol Carter Membership Officer: Brandy Kuhl Treasurer: Judy Horton Directors at large: Antonia Adezio, Kelly Comras, David Laws, Ann Scheid, Jennifer Trotoux Past President: Steven Keylon HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS Virginia Gardner Marlea Graham, Editor emerita William A. Grant (Founder) Barbara Marinacci The California Garden & Landscape History Society (CGLHS) is a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization devoted to celebrating the beauty and diversity of California’s historic gardens and landscapes; promoting wider knowledge, preservation, and restoration of California’s historic gardens and landscapes; organizing study visits to historic gardens and landscapes as well as to relevant archives and libraries; and offering opportunities for a lively interchange among members at meetings, garden visits, and other events. Eden: Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society (ISBN 1524- 8062) is published quarterly. Subscription is a benefit of CGLHS membership. © 2018 California Garden & Landscape History Society California Garden & Landscape History Society P.O. Box 220237, Newhall, CA 91322-0237 www.cglhs.org Opposite: Marin Art and Garden Center (MAGC) Above: A Maud Daggett sculpture graces the pool of the Edward Finkbine garden in a landscape by Helen Van Pelt, Pasadena, 1924. Photo from California Southland. 2 Eden: Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society Fall 2018 • Vol. 21, No. 4 3 Helen Dupuy Va n Pelt : BY MARLEA PioneerQuietGRAHAM 4 Eden: Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society Fall 2018 • Vol. 21, No. 4 5 Very few of Van Pelt’s commissions “Helen Dupuy will study landscape gar- returned from Europe, will continue her study involved commercial or other large-scale proj- dening.” While the inspiration behind this of garden designing this winter and expects ects. She seems to have followed the advice decision remains unclear, the implementation to work under Mr. Canning, head gardener of U.C. Berkeley’s founding landscape profes- was straightforward. The young Miss Dupuy at Smith, for six months beginning in March, sor John W. Gregg, who told another aspiring began a five-year long apprenticeship in the to develop the horticultural side of the profes- female landscape architect to concentrate on office of O.C. Simonds. Whether and how sion.” Perhaps it is only coincidental that the residential work as the woman’s particular much Simonds might have influenced her class announcement for the 1909-1910 hor- sphere. Unfortunately, domestic commissions choice of profession remains undetermined, ticulture class added the study of “elements of seldom receive much publicity. Worse, they but she seized this rare opportunity, bypass- landscape gardening” to its description. are particularly vulnerable to erosion over ing alternative courses offered at MIT and the Christopher Vernon gives some insight time, as larger estates are subdivided and Lowthorpe School in Groton, Massachusetts. into the Simonds firm, writing “Simonds new owners prefer new styles of landscaping. Few landscape architects were willing to is known to have given new staff members Consequently little of Van Pelt’s work remains accept a woman as an apprentice at this time, ‘apprenticeship of service in the cemetery and extant today. Because she left no cache of pri- and the firm’s incomplete archive (includ- on private landscape work on which he was vate or professional papers, much remains ing Simonds’ papers at the Sterling Morton engaged.’ J. Roy West (1880-1941), who was unknown about the scope of her work. Her Library and family-held correspondence) Simonds’ partner after 1910, assisted him in own alumnae notices provide the bare outline contains no record of Helen’s employment. training these younger men.” West is described of what is known about Helen Van Pelt. Simonds biographer Barbara Geiger learned by Geiger as “a congenial man who was known of Helen’s presence in the firm from the Bruc- for mentoring new staff members.” Despite emore estate’s head gardener, Deb Engmark, her five years with Simonds, only two jobs EARLY LIFE: EDUCATION who closely examined the garden diaries of are documented as involving Helen during her Simonds’ client, Mrs. George Bruce Douglas. time there: Brucemore, the estate of George AND APPRENTICESHIP What did Helen learn while working for Bruce Douglas in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (now a Simonds? In his book The Prairie Spirit of National Trust property), supervised by West; Helen Agnes Dupuy was born in Chicago, Landscape Gardening (1915), Wilhelm Miller and, independently, a summer retreat on the the eldest of four daughters, on December included Simonds as one of several practitio- lake at Charlevoix, Michigan, for the Robert 28, 1885. Her parents both had college edu- ners of a distinct “Prairie Style” popularized Stuart family. Douglas and Stuart were cousins cations. The family settled in Ravenswood, by Jens Jensen, though Simonds himself dis- and partners in what later became the Quaker designed in 1868 to be Chicago’s first com- claimed there was such a thing. Simonds did Oats Company.4 muter suburb and annexed to the city in 1889. advocate design that emphasized local land- Among the family’s closest friends and neigh- forms and familiar, especially native, plants. bors was Ossian Cole Simonds (1855-1931), Geiger noted Simonds’ belief that “the land- PASADENA: the internationally famous landscape gardener scape gardener seeks first to appreciate the PERIOD I (1912-1914) elen Van Pelt (1885-1972) decided to become a landscape architect when only a handful of of nearby Graceland Cemetery. Helen Dupuy’s natural beauty of a place, and then makes the first exposure to professional landscape gar- most of these features in his design. He has women were working in that field. With a portfolio of jobs ranging across the country, from dening could only have come through the a reason for everything, even though it may Though the Simonds papers are silent, a Chicago to California, Oregon and New Mexico, Van Pelt managed to achieve a sixty-year- connection to Simonds. She attended Chica- only be that ‘it looks well.’” Extrapolating from Smith College publication reported in 1916 go’s Lake View High School, and very briefly, his article, “The Landscape-gardener and His that Helen Dupuy worked in Chicago from long career, its epitome being her role in the creation of the Marin Art & Garden Center Lake Forest College, then Smith, from which Work,” Geiger paraphrased Simonds: 1907-1911, and in Pasadena in 1911-12, and Hand the Marin Conservation League. Moreover, for much of that time, she supported herself and two she graduated in 1907. The landscape gardener needed to know also possibly in Santa Barbara where another children. Her success came from the mastery of her chosen field, a talent she furthered by aligning it At Smith, Helen had the opportunity to soils, drainage, road construction, archi- former Simonds apprentice, Ralph Stevens, absorb the legacy of F.L. Olmsted & Co., the tecture, botany, horticulture, climate, and eventually returned to build his own practice. 1 with the forces of the various women’s organizations that proliferated during her era. firm hired in 1890 to create a new landscape the ‘social habits of the people’ who would Forty-plus years after the fact, Santa Barbara plan for the campus. The college’s presi- use the locale...[and] be able to arrange the plantsman Peter Riedel recalled (perhaps not dent, Laurenus Clark Seelye, had engaged entire construction in a pleasing manner and quite accurately), that a “Mr. Deusner...was the Olmsteds “to lay out the entire campus provide scenic vistas. He must...plan for an planting the Jones place in Montecito for... more symmetrically and artistically for the ever-changing work of art that would grow Simonds at that time [c. 1914].” The “Jones location of future buildings and to carry out and fluctuate with time.
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