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Bartlett Court

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Sunderland Veterans’ Memorial and Park

Durfee Gardens

A Strolling Garden

A Plastic Garden

A Kettle Hole Garden

Bartlett Court

The James Rose Center

Private Access

Clark's Passage

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W
hether viewed from inside the building or from a discrete gateway, the space is the subject. It provides a touchstone to imagine and invites contemplation on that which defines it.




B
artlett Court is more than a space to contemplate. Carved into the earth it is a space into which one descends and within which one may come to rest on low retaining walls or basalt boulders.


R
ock fragments and assembled blocks of basalt tumble through the traditional New England walls onto the excavated peastone terrace, suggesting a moment frozen in place and weaving an original expression of retaining wall.


W
ithin the space one is invited to closely examine numerous expressions of the character of the region’s indigenous volcanic rocks; as well as to recognize affinities between rocks and plants…and people.


O
ther combinations of native stones reveal the beauty of their patterns and colors while bringing to light evidence of the region’s underlying geologic processes.


T
ogether earth, rocks and plants create a space for special occasions; as well as to celebrate what is special in everyday campus life.


R
ecognizing the similarities between designing this tiny courtyard and composing an Elizabethan sonnet, the poet, Stanley Koehler, wrote this sonnet in tribute. "Is it the space that summons…"


I
n 1998 Bartlett Court received a Boston Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award in the category of Landscape Art and Earth Sculpture.

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