A Guide to the Charles F. Gillette Photographs, 1905-1970
A Collection in
Special Collections
The University of Virginia Library
Accession Number 11083
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Preferred Citation
Charles F. Gillette Photographs, 1905-1970, Accession #11083, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Processing Information
These photographs were transferred from the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library to Special Collections in 1990 but were not accessioned until March 17, 1993.
Biographical/Historical Information
Charles Freeman Gillette (1886-1969) was a Richmond
landscape architect. A native of Wisconsin, he was born in
Chippewa Falls on March 14, 1886, to Orlando Gillette (d.
1926) and Katy Melville Gillette (d. 1927). He began his
apprenticeship in landscape architecture with Warren 
Manning
(1860-1938), a Boston landscape designer, in 1909. His first
assignment was at Chelmsford, the Elon Huntington Hooker
estate in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1912, he married Ellen
Cogswell (1880-1967), the daughter of Fillmore and Lillian
Patterson Cogswell. Some notable Gillette landscape projects
in Virginia include the grounds of Richmond College (1911);
Nelson House in Yorktown (1915); Kenmore (1924); Virginia
House and Agecroft Hall (1927); and the Executive Mansion
garden (1954). For a very fine book discussing the career of
Charles F. Gillette see Genius in the Garden Charles F.
Gillette & Landscape Architecture in Virginia by George C.
Longest.
Scope and Content Information
This collection contains photographos of Virginia homes,
estates and gardens. They include snapshots of older homes and
sites, chiefly in Albemarle 
County , Va., photographed for
their historical value and containing notes on the verso
commenting on the original owners,unusual architectural
details, or directions to the site. There are also
professional photographs of well-known Virginia buildings,
many of whose gardens were designed by Gillette. In addition
there are copies of photographs of historical Gloucester
County homes, 1905; and the 1970 report of the Historical
Richmond Foundation.