Good News. The threatened #Modernist Sunset Magazine HQ in Menlo Park, CA, by architect Cliff May and landscape architect Thomas Church, has been declared eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. More: tclf.org/landscapes/sun…

Sintra, Portugal's Quinta da Regaleira is “one of the most unusual and mysterious landscapes of the late nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries.” tclf.org/places/explore…

July 4th Moment in History – Sixty years ago today the first of five annual gay rights protests took place at Independence Mall. See historic footage and discover more in “Demonstration Grounds”: tclf.org/sites/default/…

Your Attendance is Needed at a July 8, 2025, Public Meeting in San Francisco to Prevent Demolition of Embarcadero Plaza & Vaillancourt Fountain – the meeting will NOT be live streamed & will NOT be recorded: tclf.org/your-attendanc…

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Alcatraz! Register Now. Upcoming Free Webinar. Alcatraz was occupied by the “Indians of All Tribes” for nineteen months. This legendary protest galvanized the Native American “Red Power” tribal and treaty rights movement. tclf.org/alcatraz-islan…

S.F. City Officials Put a Bull’s-Eye on the Vaillancourt Fountain tclf.org/sf-city-offici…

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She was sued for false arrest and imprisonment and involved with a charismatic, but fraudulent, minister in the late nineteenth century – so how did Mary B. Coulston go on to fundamentally affect the creation of San Diego’s great Balboa Park? tclf.org/mary-b-coulsto…

Born on this day in 1870, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., landscape architect of scores of great sites across the country including the Forest Hills Gardens in NYC, Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, FL, and Palos Verdes in CA: tclf.org/pioneer/freder…

4 Striking Landscapes Join Quebec’s Reford Gardens for 2025 azuremagazine.com/article/4-stri…

LAST CHANCE. Act Now. Tell San Francisco city officials not to destroy Embarcadero Plaza and the Vaillancourt Fountain. Tell city officials to rehabilitate these culturally significant landmarks: docs.google.com/forms/d/1v3QKI…

#OnThisDay in 1934, Minneapolis’ Hiawatha Golf Club opened; it cost 35¢ to play a round. From its earliest days African American players could golf there, though the clubhouse wasn’t desegregated until 1952. The site is currently threatened. tclf.org/landscapes/hia…

The Cultural Landscape Foundation is saddened to learn of the passing of landscape architect Peter Rolland this past Saturday at his home in Rye, N.Y., a few weeks after his 95th birthday. tclf.org/remembering-pe…

Photos of Villa Lante, in Bagnaia, Italy have just been added to the Alan Ward Portfolios of Designed Landscapes – explore this portfolio and dozens of others: tclf.org/alan-ward-port…

Register Now. Get an exclusive tour of the exquisite Sculpture Garden at The Aldrich Museum Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, on Saturday, Sept. 6 from its landscape architects at STIMSON. tclf.org/garden-dialogu…

The 2025 World Landscape Arch Cultural Landscape Awards: Design Excellence and Innovation Award goes to Machicomoco State Park by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects; and the Planning and Research Award goes to Ko Te Pūkākī by landLAB and Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei worldlandscapearchitect.com/winners-announ…

Landscape architect Arthur Berger, who died on this day in 1960, and his wife Marie were noted for their Texas gardens which utilized the interplay of light and shade, in what House and Garden editor Dr. Joseph E. Howland called “Texas Chiaroscuro.” tclf.org/pioneer/arthur…

Hidden in Olmsted’s Shadow: The Brilliant Designer History Forgot - A.J.S. - Alexander Joseph Scholtes via Landezine: landezine.com/hidden-in-olms…