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SOCIETY’S CHILD: THE GARDENS OF THE
FELIPE DE NEVE BRANCH LIBRARY
by
Jonathan E. Froines
_____________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION
December 2012
Copyright 2012 Jonathan E. Froines
Object Description
| Title | Society's child: the gardens of the Felipe de Neve Branch Library |
| Author | Froines, Jonathan E. |
| Author email | jfroines@gmail.com;froines@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Historic Preservation |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Historic Preservation |
| School | School of Architecture |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-11-01 |
| Date submitted | 2012-11-19 |
| Date approved | 2012-11-20 |
| Restricted until | 2012-11-20 |
| Date published | 2012-11-20 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Sandmeier, Trudi |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Breisch, Kenneth Tichenor, Brian |
| Abstract | The Felipe de Neve Library was built in 1929 in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the subsequent decades after construction, a number of community groups advocated for unique landscape insertions to the site. The Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks built a lily pond and a series of terraces descending down the slope from the Library. On and adjacent to these terraces and pool, members of the public installed a Shakespeare Garden, and later, a Fragrant Garden for the Blind designed by noted landscape architect Edward Huntsman-Trout, designer of Scripps College in Claremont, CA. Yet over time, these gardens were abandoned by city services, and today, while extant, exist only in a state of ruin. In this study, the nature of this site is investigated and evaluated through its history. What do we have here? Is this an important site? Is this a site worth restoring or rehabilitating? How do the physical remnants of the site relate to the people and events of early Los Angeles? Through an in-depth investigation of archival photographs, news stories, and books, the history and meaning behind the site and its surrounding environs are discovered. In the final chapter, we discuss the historic integrity and significance of the site, and how this might be transposed to a rehabilitation or restoration. We conclude that the gardens of the Felipe de Neve Library are an important resource for the city of Los Angeles. Designed to provide respite, entertainment, and education for the public, the gardens encapsulate the history of a neighborhood, and if rehabilitated, would allow the current residents of Westlake to add the next chapter to its rich history. |
| Keyword | historic preservation; cultural landscape preservation; landscape architecture; Los Angeles; branch libraries; Westlake; Felipe de Neve; Lafayette Park; fragrant gardens for the blind; Shakespeare gardens; landscape history; Austin Whittlesey; Bertram Goodhue; Edward Huntsman-Trout |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Froines, Jonathan E. |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume6/etd-FroinesJon-1314.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | SOCIETY’S CHILD: THE GARDENS OF THE FELIPE DE NEVE BRANCH LIBRARY by Jonathan E. Froines _____________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION December 2012 Copyright 2012 Jonathan E. Froines |
