Slide 105 — Garden of Augustus Saint-Gaudens Cornish Mr Homer St-G Hon. Member
Excerpt from Mrs. Hunt’s lecture
(105) Mrs. Homer Saint Gaudens, who is an honorary member of the Garden Club of Allegheny County, kindly gave us a photograph of the garden of his father, Augustus Saint Gaudens, the great sculptor, who lived in Cornish, N. H. You will see in the background "Aspet", the house in which Augustus Saint Gaudens lived. The town, Saint Gaudens, in France, still exists, and he was born beyond the city in a house on an estate that was called "Aspet". When he went to New Hampshire to live many years ago, and took over an old estate, he called his house "Aspet", and because he cared for the Greek type of sculpture and architecture, he built himself a tiny Greek garden between the old New England house and the studio. After his day's work was done, he used to retire to this tiny garden. The combination of white house, white birch trees, white wooden benches, and white marble pool, gives a real feeling of Greek simplicity.
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