Shelburne Farms: House, Gardens, Farm, and Barns

By Glenn Suokko

With a Foreword by Alec Webb, Afterword by Megan Camp

Rizzoli International Publications, New York

2017, Hardcover, 12 x 9 inches, 288 pages, 340 color photographs

This book celebrates the enduring beauty of Shelburne Farms, a late-nineteenth-century model agricultural estate on the shores of Lake Champlain. I combined archival research and new photography to tell the story of its founders, Eliza “Lila” Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb, and the restoration of their architectural and landscape legacy. From Frederick Law Olmsted’s pastoral designs to the Italianate gardens and great barns, Shelburne Farms captures the harmony between vision, preservation, and place.