Save The McGinley Mansion

Cheap Old Houses on Instagram posted about The McGinley Mansion in their stories and I had to sign the petition to save this glorious home.

The McGinley Mansion (c1925) was designed by Bigelow & Wadsworth, premier architects of their time. Some of their work includes The Boston Athenaeum and frequent partners include the Olmsted brothers.

Hailed as the "Dean of American Women Landscape Architects," Ellen Biddle Shipman designed nearly six hundred gardens throughout the US during the course of her thirty-five year career. She is said to have hired nearly all women as they were starting their careers. The entirety of her work now lives at Cornell’s Rare Book & Manuscript Collection. She described her use of plants as "painting pictures as an artist would." The McGinley gardens remain one of the last residential gardens in existence.

(photos and words kidnapped from @SaveMcGinleyMansion on Instagram)