Evelyn N. Poehler Landscape Architecture drawings (SP10.0)

Evelyn Nowack Poehler, born in Rochester, NY 1913 October 21, graduated from the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women in 1932. A registered landscape architect in New York and Connecticut, she designed the Wethersfield Estate gardens located in Amenia, NY working with owner Chancey D. Stillman over several decades. Her husband, architect George Frederick Poelher, designed the garden's Palladian Arch and and an addition to the house known as the Gloriette.

They made their home in Sharon, CT and later Salisbury, CT. She maintained a private practice designing gardens for residences in addition to her work with Stillman. A Beaux Arts architect, he with Harry van Dyke and John Barrington Bayley designed an addition to the Frick Collection in New York City. She died 1999 February 15 and he died 2001 September 28.