T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Steele Burden # 4700.0004

IDENTIFICATION: [1901- ] LSU Landscaper; Landscape Architect/Gardener; founder Rural Life Museum

INTERVIEWER: Robert Cox

PROJECT: 1978 master's thesis "The Gardens of Shadows-on-the-Teche as designed by Weeks Hall."

DATE: February 22, 1978 FOCUS DATES: 1930-1950

ABSTRACT:

Burden's connection with Edward Avery McIlhenny and Avery Island; Week Hall's garden plan; Hall, a charming and eccentric man; Shadows landscaping; formal garden; famous visitors to Shadows; construction of Shadows; types of plants found in the gardens.

TAPES: None

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