Brookwood Point featured in Conde Nast publication
We are so proud to have our Brookwood Point Gardens featured in Condé Nast's The World of Interiors, written by talented Cooperstown local Editor, Mitchell Owens!
The article is worth a read and delves deep into the complex history of this Otsego Lake treasure. Bonus - rarely seen before historical photos are also included!
“Just as gardens disintegrate over time if given insufficient attention, so do the reputations of the men and women who design them. Especially past masters whose creations may not have been unquestionably transcendent or overwhelmingly influential. Not every landscape lion can be a Gertrude Jekyll or an André Le Nôtre, but knowledge about lesser-known mortals on the horticultural daisy chain is worth cultivating, because for every superstar there is a solid practitioner with a career that helps fill in history’s gaps, such as Frederic dePeyster Townsend. Born a New England blueblood, educated at Harvard University and married, for a time, to an heiress, Townsend was responsible for many a garden — public, as well as private, plus housing developments, town plans, playgrounds and a golf course — in the United States, Canada and Mexico. One of the survivors is Brookwood, the country place in Cooperstown, New York, where he lived from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, with his first wife and six children.”