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WORMSLOE PLANTATION NAMED ONE OF “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN ALL 50 STATES”


House Beautiful recently named Wormsloe Plantation, the ancestral home of LALH Preservation Hero Craig Barrow III, to its 2016 list of most beautiful places. Two years ago, LALH featured Wormsloe in a VIEWarticle honoring Barrow, who is also co-founder of the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History. The historic plantation on the Isle of Hope near […]

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RUTH SHELLHORN: MIDCENTURY LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WINS BEST FILM AWARD AT THE MODESTO ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL


The short documentary, based on the book by Kelly Comras and produced by LALH in association with Florentine Films/Hott Productions, won top honors at the 9th Annual Modesto Architecture Festival.   […]

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RUTH SHELLHORN WINS AWARD


ASLA’s Southern California Chapter presented an honor award to Kelly Comras for Ruth Shellhorn (LALH 2016), the lead book in the LALH Masters of Modern Landscape Design series. The award ceremony was held at the Disney Grand California Hotel, near Disneyland, one of Shellhorn’s major landscape design projects.   […]

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FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL.… LALH TO PUBLISH A NEW SHIPMAN EDITION


In early September, LALH asked members to help fund a new edition of The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman, one of our first books. Thanks to dozens of generous donors, we reached our goal of $15,000! The new edition will feature an expansive new design, many previously undocumented gardens, and new color photographs. Sure to […]

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ORDER LALH BOOKS FROM OUR FALL/WINTER 2016–2017 ONLINE CATALOG


The new catalog features forthcoming LALH titles as well as our backlist, with news of recent awards. Download the catalog from our website: https://lalh.org/books/         […]

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