SUZANNE TURNER is professor emeritus of the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University
"Glenwood Cemetery has been an important part of Houston since its
creation in the years after the Civil War. This 'silent garden'
west of downtown became the burial place of many prominent
Houstonians. This beautiful book by Suzanne Turner, Joanne Seale
Wilson, and with photographs by Paul C. Hester tells the story of
both the people who founded Glenwood and many of the people who are
buried there. In so doing, it also tells an interesting, engaging
part of the story of Houston."--Joseph Pratt, Cullen Professor of
History & Business, University of Houston--Joseph Pratt, Cullen
Professor of History & Business, University of Houston
"The story of Houston can be told through histories of those buried
at Glenwood Cemetery. From the 'mother of Houston, ' as Charlotte
Marie Allen is known, to Judge Roy Hofheinz, the father of the
Astrodome, Glenwood houses the graves of hearty men and women who
founded and shaped this great city along Buffalo Bayou. Houston's
Silent Garden is a superb history of this cemetery, one that takes
the reader beyond the names of those buried there. The book
introduces us to the bucolic setting that continues to be what its
founders intended when they created it 137 years ago--a beautiful
garden that my life-long friend Carrington Weems says seems to
reach 'up to the heavens' on starry nights. As a native Houstonian,
whose grandfather served as the cemetery's president for a quarter
of a century, I am gratified that Suzanne Turner and Joanne Seale
Wilson have written this wonderful book."--James A Baker, III, 61st
U.S. Secretary of State--James A Baker, III, 61st U.S. Secretary of
State
"This book is about many things: Glenwood's place in the history of
landscape design; the changing design of the monuments that
embellish the grounds, and how evolving aesthetics relate the
broader societal change; the people involved in the cemetery's
creation and enlargement over time, and how newer parts of the
cemetery incorporate different landscape aesthetics than the older
ones; the individuals buried there; and Glenwood's place in
Houston's history. [The authors] have done well in placing Glenwood
within both the history of cemetery design and the social,
economic, and urban history of Houston. The book is handsomely
illustrated with Paul Hester's contemporary photographs as well as
older maps, drawings, postcards, and portraits. The authors make
clear that the history of Glenwood is an essential part of
Houston's past and explain the efforts that current leaders of the
cemetery are undertaking to ensure that this green oasis remains an
inportant part of the city as it moves into the twenty-first
century."--David Schuyler, The Journal of Southern History--
(11/28/2011)
"Houston's Silent Garden eloquently describes Glenwood Cemetery,
one of the city's many unexplored treasures. Landscape historians
Suzanne Turner and Joanne Wilson excavated sparse and inaccessible
original resources to explore terrain as yet ignored by historians
of the city. Turner and Wilson place their discoveries in the
larger context of Houston's economic expansion and relate Glenwood
to the broad story of park design and cemetery development in the
United States. Paul Hester's sensitive photographs and the generous
addition of archival images and cemetery maps give visual beauty to
this journey though time. The book relates Glenwood's institutional
history, explains its development as a burial ground, gives
detailed analysis of the monuments and sculpture, provides
biographies of many who rest there, lists officers and directors,
and names tree and bird species found at the site. Whether your
interest is urban history, horticulture, genealogy, open space, or
preservation, you will want this permanent record of Glenwood's
serene landscape in your library."--Kate S. Kirkland, author, The
Hogg Family and Houston: Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal --Kate
Kirkland
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