Gardens at Bamboo Brook
Martha Brookes Hutcheson, renowned as one of America's first professional female landscape architects, lived at Merchiston Farm. Now called Bamboo Brook, from 1911 to 1959.
These gardens are an example of an early 20th-century landscape designed by Hutcheson in the mode of the country place era and embodies many of her design principles and ideals. In 1989 Merchiston Farm was listed on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places.
Funding has been made possible in part by the Garden State Historic Preservation Trust admisistered by the New Jersey Historic Trust / Sate of New Jersey.
Marker can be reached from Longview Road, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
