New Holly Park III, Seattle, Washington (2000)

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People:

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (landscape architect)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (archive creator)
Daniel Solomon ETC Artchitects (architectural firm)

Title:

New Holly Park III, Seattle, Washington (2000)

Date:

2000-2005

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

0.24 l.m. of textual records
621 drawings (including 591 reprographic copies)
68 digital files (73 MB)
28 photographic materiel

Scope and content:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the redesign of low-income housing development New Holly Park III in South Beacon Hill, outside Seattle, Washington. Oberlander was hired by Daniel Solomon ETC Artchitects to work on the landscape. She worked on this project in the early 2000s. The housing development was original called Holly Park. The project in the redesign of the existing housing development built in the 1940s and adding 219 rentals and 121 owned properties. For the landscaping, Oberlander "planned not only central market park but also numerous pocket parks and a greenhouse" [1].

The project series contains design development drawings, presentation drawings and working drawings, such as site plans, landscape plans, planting plans, and irrigations plans. The drawings also includes housing construction plans used as reference. The project is also documented through correspondence with client, architect, consultant and contractors, specifications, contract, financial documents, plant selection and documentation. The project series also includes photographs of the project and digital photographs of a site visit by Oberlander.

Sources:
[1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 69.

Reference number:

AP075.S1.2000.PR04

Arrangement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Location:

Seattle Washington United States

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