Work started today! Stone masons began pouring the foundations for beautiful new stone piers that will flank the handsome new gate at Tregaron. (That gate will be open to the public for free, every day, don’t worry.)
Coming soon: After years of planning and fundraising, the Tregaron Conservancy is replacing the ugly 1950’s chain link fence along open Klingle Road with a handsome, historically accurate replicate of the original 1915 iron fence. The new fence will be in the exact same location, but the entrance to Tregaron will be moved 125 feet to the east — to the original pedestrian entrance to the historic estate. The new (old) entrance path will weave through a grove of rhododendrons until it meets up with a bridle trail. The existing unattractive double wide entrance that goes through the meadow surrounding the Twin Oak stump (this entrance path was really a wide “road” that was not original but needed for the major rehabilitation projects that the Tregaron Conservancy has engaged upon for the past 9 years) will be removed and the meadow will be restored. Over 100 years ago, cattle grazed in the meadow and it was referred to as the “cow pasture.” While the Conservancy won’t be adding cows to any of our meadows, we do want to go back to the original landscaping and trails as planned by renowned landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman.
Here’s a link to the sketch plan of the new stone piers as approved by DC’s Historic Preservation Review Board (and designed by Tregaron Conservancy Board Member and Landscape Designer Tamara Belt): Tregaron New Klingle Gate
