Registration Eligibility
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Start Date
06/05/2024
End Date
06/07/2024
Description
The purpose is to introduce newer practitioners to the first planned community in the USA, and the first local that employed the term “Park Way,” called Llewellyn Park, in New Jersey. Llewellyn Park is on the National Register of Historic Places and the home of its most famous resident Thomas Edison is part of the National Park System albeit one of the more under-appreciated National Monuments. Understanding the Llewellyn Park landscape will allow visitors to gain an new understanding of the form appearance and construction of Edison National Historic Monument.
Llewellyn Park is the nationally recognized as one of the first Planned Communities in the USA and its elements of the Park Way, common Open Space, and its the site designed gardens and landscape plans by key leaders in the Landscape Design Profession.
It was first designed and constructed in suburban New Jersey in 1853 and much of these same elements are remaining to this day.
Moreover due to is age, its is a unique case study on how the trees and plants have adapted to environmental changes since its beginnings in 1853.
A. Thus, it’s first community to employ an HOA structure and deed restrictions. Because Llewellyn Park was founded by devoted and ardent Pre-Civil War Abolitionists, home ownership was not based on race, nationality or religious backgrounds. This foundational Deed restriction of 1857 was shared with a local real estate attorney, Wil Anderson for his CUE presentation to the NC Bar Association this summer.
Location
Asheville, NC
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
Yes
Subjects
Development Trends
Historic Preservation
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.0
Learning Outcomes
A Expand and introduce to many younger practitioners in North Carolina of 19th Century community planning as specially the unique time window before Fredrick Law Olmstead began his practice. The key two designers were Alexander Jackson Davis, and Calvert Vaux. AJ Davis was the architect of the NC State House, the UNC Campus Master Plan, and Governor Morehead House in Greensboro. Calver Vaux working in Llewellyn Park the for three years before collaborating with Olmstead on the famous “33” plan.
A. As the first planned community in the USA, Llewellyn Park used moral concepts as fundamental community design principals over a century before current environmental laws ordinances were developed. Some of these elements include stream buffers, steep slope protection, created storm ponds, limited impact development approaches, and using locally and regionally sourced building materials as practice. This community inspired a grand slam of design harmony between Materials, Architecture, Landscape and Home Owner. These ‘Llewellyn Park’ names and elements are still employed by many design professionals North Carolina today.
A. Identify and denote how the landscape is resilient and that careful Historic Preservation approaches are used over the past 150 years to maintain the integrity of the place and to instill a pride of place for its current residents.
Instructors
Keith Robbins
Course Codes
B6-B
Provider
North Carolina Chapter of ASLA