Gold Coast Beginnings

The LIU Post Community Arboretum began in 1921 as “Hillwood,” the country estate of Post Cereal THE Company heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post LIU Post and her husband, Edward F. Hutton, the famous Wall Street tycoon. The Brookville, COMMUNITY N.Y. property was occupied by a Spanish-style home that the couple transformed into a half- timbered English Tudor. In 1922, they hired Arboretum renowned landscape architect Marian Cruger Coffin to design gardens to complement the style of the house.

In addition to creating a walled flower garden, a rose arbor, and a water garden, Ms. Coffin planted various trees which still exist today: Dogwoods, Cedar, Holly, Boxwoods, Standard Wisteria, Sophora, and Taxus. Other trees predate the Post estate such as the magnificent Blue Atlas Cedar that stands over 60 feet tall and is more than a century old. Ms. Coffin also transplanted fully grown Elm trees to the eastern side of the Post mansion and designed a majestic driveway that began at the estate’s main entrance on Northern Boulevard, curved past simple outer buildings, and continued on to the mansion.

Long Island University purchased the Post estate in 1951. Classes began in 1955. Since that time, the campus has been home to students from around the country and the world. In 1999, alumni Rick Rosen (’70) and Tina Lippert Visitor’s Guide AND Map Rosen (’71) launched the LIU Post Arboretum Initiative LIU Post with a generous donation to professionally catalog and 720 Northern Boulevard help maintain the campus’s collection of trees. The LIU Post Brookville, New York 11548 Community Arboretum officially opened to the public liu.edu/arboretum in April 2002. 516-299-3500 [email protected]

Visitor Information Contributions For more information, LIU Post Community Arboretum is open to the We depend on the generous support of our friends to preserve call 516-299-3500 or write: public from dawn to dusk, seven days a week. the campus’s valuable natural areas and tree collection. LIU Post Community Arboretum Admission is free. Because the arboretum is a Donations to the LIU Post Community Arboretum help us LIU Post cherished part of LIU Post, we ask that you take care not care for the trees and fund the tree replacement program. 720 Northern Boulevard to damage any plants or trees, and no pets please. We’d like our Your contribution will help us to maintain and enhance Brookville, NY 11548 arboretum to serve as a resource for generations to come. Group this beautiful arboretum. For more information on donor Email: [email protected] tours, led by a trained horticulturist, are available by opportunities, please call LIU Post Development & Alumni Web: liu.edu/arboretum appointment. The trail is wheelchair accessible. Office at 516-299-2263.

Parking Parking Parking Parking Welcome to the LIU Post Community Arboretum Post Hall The LIU Post Community Arboretum is a Hillwood Commons magnificent 20-acre tract of native trees and nature Tilles Center trails within LIU Post. It features more than 110 trees (62 species), some very rare, that are labeled with horticultural and origin information. The trees are nestled amid formal gardens, rolling green lawns, and a wide variety of shrubs and flowering plants, including more than 8 2 50,000 tulips and daffodils. The arboretum serves as 7 an educational and recreational resource for students 9 6 17 5 4 and faculty as well as the Long Island community. Miracle-Gro 3 Self-guided walking tours begin at Hillwood Commons 10 Greenhouse Rose 16 1 and last 30 to 45 minutes. The trail winds past the Arbor Tudor mansion that was once the home of cereal heiress Riggs Hall Marjorie Merriweather Post, around the campus’ main 14 academic buildings, over a babbling brook, alongside Dollhouse 15 a memorial garden, and around a labyrinth created by Labyrinth 30 LIU Post students. 11 Winnick House Highlights 12 Administration/Great Hall Admissions 13 The beauty you will find along these walks is truly breathtaking. 18 20 Our collection of trees includes some of the largest and most 19 21 22 Humanities unusual on Long Island: a 105-foot tulip tree, a Japanese pagoda Hall dogwood tree, and a 90-year-old 24 25 American Elm, to name a few. Unique plantings bear the mark of the arboretum’s Theatre,Film&Dance regal beginnings. In the 1920s, for Winnick example, gardeners from the Post Student Center 23 family estate created a Tabletop Scotch 26 29 Elm by grafting two elm varieties 27 together resulting in a grainy bark at Pell Hall/ 28 the base of the tree, and a smooth bark Hoxie Hall Life Science at the top. The contrast is striking. Gardeners also planted a formal flower garden next to the Winnick House administration building S c where brick walls, walkways and benches remain h today as a testament to a gentler time. The o Book arboretum as a whole is a tribute to the natural l Roth Hall a Store beauty of Long Island’s famed Gold oast. r C o Blue Trail: 45 minutes u r Yellow Trail: 30 minutes t Kumble Hall Parking

Arboretum Highlights 7 WhiteOak- 11 Heritage Birch - 15 Sawara False Cypress - 19 Eastern Redbud - 23 Tuliptree - 27 Oriental Spruce - Quercus alba Betula nigra ‘Heritage’ Chamaecyparis pisifera Cercis Caradensis Liriodendron tulipifera Picea orientalis 1 Grand Fir - 4 ScarletOak- Abies grandis Quercus coccinea 8 Star Magnolia - 12 American Elm - 16 Climbing Hydrangea - 20 Pagoda Dogwood - 24 Scotch Elm - 28 Ginkgo - magnolia stellata Ulmus americana Hydrangea anomala petiolais Cornus alternifolia Ulmus glabra ‘Horizontalis’ Ginkgo biloba

2 Eastern White Pine - 5 Sweet Birch - Pinus strobus Betula lenta 9 Douglas Fir - 13 English Yew - 17 American Holly - 21 Nordmann’s Fir - 25 Japanese Maple - 29 BlackWalnut- Pseudostuga menziesii Taxus baccata Ilex opaca Abies nordmanniana Acerpalmetum Juglans nigra 3 BlackOak- 6 American Beech - Quercus velutina Fagus grandifolia 10 Norway Maple - 14 Sourwood - 18 Hoopsii Spruce - 22 Blue Atlas Cedar - 26 European Beech - 30 Littleleaf Linden - Acerplatanoides Oxydendrum aboreum Picea pungens ‘Hoopsii’ Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ Fagus sylvatica Tilia cordata