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La Grande Allée
"Few landscapes possess the sheer drama of the Grand Allée on Castle Hill at the Crane Estate in Ipswich. A vast carpet of lawn bordered on both sides by evergreens, the Allée flows toward bluffs overlooking Crane Beach and the open sea beyond. Measuring 2,060 feet long – about five and a half football fields – and 100 feet wide across its grassy middle, this beloved avenue provides a breathtaking natural transition between the stately Crane mansion and its wild ocean vistas . . .
[La Grande Allée, or the great] avenue, or greensward, is unique in American landscape design . . . none [other] approaches the size or scale of that at the Crane Estate."
~~By April Austin @ www.thetrustees.org/what-we-care-about/history-culture/sp...
La Grande Allée
"Few landscapes possess the sheer drama of the Grand Allée on Castle Hill at the Crane Estate in Ipswich. A vast carpet of lawn bordered on both sides by evergreens, the Allée flows toward bluffs overlooking Crane Beach and the open sea beyond. Measuring 2,060 feet long – about five and a half football fields – and 100 feet wide across its grassy middle, this beloved avenue provides a breathtaking natural transition between the stately Crane mansion and its wild ocean vistas . . .
[La Grande Allée, or the great] avenue, or greensward, is unique in American landscape design . . . none [other] approaches the size or scale of that at the Crane Estate."
~~By April Austin @ www.thetrustees.org/what-we-care-about/history-culture/sp...