HIGHLAND GARDENS
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- Location
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NYS Historic
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Arts & Culture, Site
- 355 Grand St, Newburgh, NY 12550, USA
- 41.512512, -74.009479
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Orange County Government
HIGHLAND GARDENS
Inscription
HIGHLAND GARDENSANDREW JACKSON DOWNING,
1815-1852, HORTICULTURIST &
AUTHOR. A NEWBURGH NATIVE,
HIS BOTANIC NURSERY & HOME
STOOD ON ELEVEN ACRES HERE.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2022
A good house will lead to a good civilization.
-Andrew Jackson Downing
The property known as Highland Gardens was the home, farm, nursery and garden of prominent Newburgh native Andrew Jackson Downing. Born in 1815, Downing spent most of his life here. He was well known for his treatises on landscape gardening and the construction of cottages. He penned notable books on fruit and fruit trees in North America and architecture in addition to serving as editor of Horticulturalist magazine, dedicated to landscape gardening, horticulture, botany, and rural economics. Downing tragically drowned in the wreck of the Hudson River steamer John Jay, which caught on fire and sank in 1852. He is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in his hometown, Newburgh, NY.
