A pond and waterfall connects two properties that will be on the What’s Out There Weekend Indianapolis. (C) Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
What better way to round out the touring season than peeking at some of the best landscapes Indianapolis has to offer. It’s an opportunity to quell your curiosity about some of Indianapolis’ best neighborhoods, landscapes and public spaces.
On Oct. 7 and 8, our fair city will be celebrated with What’s Out There Weekend Indianapolis, a nationally promoted program of The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Nearly 30 sites have been selected for tours behind garden gates, in select city parks, along public thoroughfares and our greenspaces. And it’s all free and open to the public.
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What’s Out There Weekend Indianapolis
When: Oct. 6, 7 and 8, 2017
Where: tours of about 30 sites through the city
Free, but tour registration is required
Charles Birnbaum, president of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, tclf.org
“What’s Out There Weekends, which have been held in dozens of cities in the U.S. and Canada, reveal stories about places many people see daily, but may not know,” said Charles A. Birnbaum, president and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation. “The Weekends also make visible the landscape architects and allied professionals who were instrumental in shaping our cities and our shared civic realm.”
TCLF is a nonprofit that connects people and places by educating the public about landscapes, their value and history. A local volunteer group under the auspices of the Cultural Landscapes Committee of Indiana Landmarks has partnered with TCLF for this event, and I’ve been pleased be involved.
Although the tours, receptions and other events that weekend are free, registration is required. Different tours are offered on each day. Most tours last about an hour. Among the highlights: a golf-cart tour of Brendonwood, the Indianapolis northeast side neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places; a walking tour of the Sloan garden on North Meridian Street, a landscape by Jens Jensen (1860-1951), a well-known designer who also created Riverview, which includes Allison Mansion at Marian University and also on tour; Orchard House, home of Raymond Leppard, retired maestro of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra; Westerley, the former home of Alan Whitehill Clowes in Golden Hill, which now serves as the residence for the head of the Indianapolis Museum of Art; and Sky Farm, the rooftop garden at Eskenazi Health.
Westerley’s vegetable garden in Golden Hill. The gardens will be on the What’s Out There Weekend Indianapolis, Oct 6, 7 and 8.
The public is invited to a tour and reception, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 6, at Christian Theological Seminary, where Birnbaum is expected to make remarks about the weekend. Another reception, presentation and self-guided tour will be 4 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 7, at Crown Hill Cemetery. And, the weekend wraps up with a presentation about Indianapolis’ Historic Park and Boulevard System by Meg Storrow of Storrow Kinsella Associates and co-chair of the local organizing committee, 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 8, at The Platform at the City Market. You can select which tours you’d like to take when you register.
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