Hodges Gardens State Park is located roughly 5 hours SE of Dallas, 4 hours NE of Houston, and 5 hours NW of New Orleans. The city of Alexandria, LA (AEX airport) is located 70 miles to the east.
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July 21, 2011 by exploringhodgesgardens
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Exploring Hodges Gardens is a conversation of real-world discoveries and challenges from the historic landscape documentation process, and Hodges Gardens State Park is being exhibited as the case study landscape.
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Hodges Gardens is a mid-20th century designed landscape in west-central Louisiana. It lies roughly 95 miles south of Shreveport, Louisiana; 70 miles west of Alexandria, LA; and 15 miles south of Many, LA.
Opened to the public in 1956, this garden and forested recreation area has been a regional cultural destination for decades. Established as a public space + private residence by A.J. and Nona Trigg Hodges, their vision ultimately reclaimed and repaired a landscape that was previously stripped for both logging and rock mining purposes.
To date, design elements and materials are largely cohesive throughout. Hare & Hare (Kansas City) and Walker & Walker (Shreveport), are cited as the primary landscape architects and architects, respectively. Louisiana native, author, and conservationist Caroline Dorman served as Consultant on Natural Areas. The Hodges Foundation donated a core 948 of the original 4700 acre site to the State of Louisiana in 2007, creating Hodges Gardens State Park.
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- 225 acre lake A.J. Hodges administration office aerial images Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation archives axis Ben D. Peterson Cammie G. Henry Research Center Carol Grove Caroline Dorman Caroline Dorman Nature Preserve Centenary Choir circulation routes Crab Orchard stone dam designed landscape Donald Bush Entrance Station Eric Brock Eugene Herbert Fleming III existing conditions Exploring Hodges Gardens Flag Island Flickr Florien focal point Friends of Hodges Gardens Greenhouse Group Lodge Hare & Hare Landscape Architects historic photographs Hodges Gardens hodgesgardens.net Hodges Gardens State Park House Island initial walk-through interview John Byrd Kim Kelly Lambert Landscape Company landscape features Lookout Tower loop road Lord and Burnham Louisiana Many Louisiana masterplan materials Melrose Plantation mid-20th Century architecture Nandina Island NCPTT newspaper clippings Northwestern State University Old Fashioned Garden oral history peninsula photographs project focus Ralph Reinhart Ray Berthelot Sabine Parish scanner scrapbooks sense of place Shreveport spatial organization springs Texas Overlook U.S. Forest Service vegetation views Walker & Walker Architects White House Branch
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