• Source: Charles Gillette

      • Charles Freeman Gillette (March 14, 1886 – March 30, 1969) was a prominent landscape architect in the upper South who specialized in the creation of grounds supporting Colonial Revival architecture, particularly in Richmond, Virginia. He is associated with the restoration and re-creation of historic gardens in the upper South and especially Virginia. He is known for having established a regional style—known as the "Virginia Garden."


      Biography



      Charles F. Gillette was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin in 1886 as the tenth and last child of Orlando Gillette and Catherine Gillette (nee Melville). His father served as a private in the 30th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the Civil War. Due to his family's financial state, Gillette never had any formal schooling.
      In 1909–1911, Gillette served as an apprentice in the Boston office of Warren H. Manning, a leading early-20th century landscape architect. Gillette moved to Richmond in 1913 to supervise the completion of Manning's landscape design for the University of Richmond's new campus. In 1915, he began designing the grounds of the Nelson House in Yorktown, Virginia. In 1924, he commenced work on the landscape restoration of Kenmore in Fredericksburg, Virginia. A few years later, he initiated plans for the landscaping of Virginia House and Agecroft, both reconstructed English manor houses located in Richmond's Windsor Farms neighborhood. Extensive additions to the Virginia House gardens were completed in 1939. During the 1950s, Gillette redesigned the gardens of Virginia's Executive Mansion at the request of Governor Thomas B. Stanley. In 1958, he designed the grounds for the Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters located at Richmond. His commissions also included hundreds of residential projects throughout Virginia and North Carolina.
      A number of his works were designed for properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places.


      In popular culture


      Author Tom Wolfe references Gillette as the commissioned landscaper of Dupont University in I Am Charlotte Simmons.


      Selected works


      University of Richmond (1913), Richmond, VA
      Nelson House (1915), Yorktown, Virginia
      Casa Maria (1921-1922), Greenwood, VA
      Blue Ridge Farm (1923-1924), Greenwood, VA
      Sunken Garden (Virginia) (1923-1924), Williamsburg, Virginia
      Kenmore (1924), Fredericksburg, Virginia
      Agecroft Hall (1926), Richmond, VA
      MacCallum More and Hudgins House Historic District gardens (1927), Chase City, Virginia
      Belfield (1929-1930), Lexington, Virginia
      Gallison Hall (1931-1933), Charlottesville, VA
      Windemere (1860), Richmond, VA
      Midway (Millington, Virginia) (1936), Millington, VA
      Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters (1958), Richmond, VA
      Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, VA
      Glen Alpine in the Cifax Rural Historic District, Cifax, Virginia
      Oak Grove (Eastville, Virginia), Eastville, VA
      E. Hervey Evans House (1939), Laurinburg, NC
      Monroe Ward, Richmond, VA
      John Whitworth House, Richmond, VA
      Longview Gardens Historic District
      Meadowbrook
      Virginia House, 1927
      Elderslie, 1917
      4300 Sulgrave Road, 1957
      Executive Mansion (Virginia), 1954
      Nordley (4203 Sulgrave Road), 1924
      Redesdale, 1925
      Little Yatton, Orange County, 1948
      Meadowfarm, Orange County, 1934


      References




      External links


      The Cultural Landscape Foundation: Charles Freeman Gillette
      Garden and Gun: "Gillette's Gem"

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