Formal Garden
The architect of Old Main, George Harney, is also credited with the design, in 1901, of what was originally referred to as the Italian Garden. The garden was added in the early 1900s, two decades after the main house was built, and Harney beautifully integrated the design with the house’s layout. He used architectural elements that Luther Kountze had salvaged from historic Manhattan edifices, including the renowned Lagrange Terrace Colonnade Row and the A. T. Stewart Fifth Avenue mansion. These columns, capitals and pediments were combined with Kountze’s prized collection of fine Italian sculpture -- which included several sculptural figures by Pietro Bernini (1562—1629) now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Harney skillfully blended the elements into a magnificent formal garden that, together with Old Main, are the centerpiece of the Delbarton campus.