North Andover Garden Club Mission
participation in civic beautification, horticulture,
flower arranging, and conservation.
Conservation Pledge
I give my pledge as an American to save
and faithfully defend from waste the natural resources of my country - its air, soils, and minerals,
its forests, waters, and wildlife.
State Tree - Elm
State Flower - Arbutus
State Bird – Chickadee
NAGC Membership
Members: 45
Associate Members: 8
Honorary Members: 2
A Letter from Our Presidents September 2023
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In the pamphlet entitled “History of the North Andover Garden Club”, written in 1949 by Kate Hastings Stevens, we see how the early members of the garden club contributed greatly to not only the club’s growth and cohesiveness but also the development of the larger community of North Andover with their creative foresight and personal resourcefulness.
By
Kate Hastings Stevens
A History of the North Andover Garden Club1 would not be complete without a description of the background from which it developed. The first gardens of old Andover were dooryards enclosed by picket or rail fences. Their small area was filled with syringe and rose bushes and sweet-smelling flowers such as lavender and peonies. Usually there were two shade trees, one on either side of the gate. Of such a garden one catches a glimpse in Miss Bailey’s history of Andover 2, where a photograph of the Phillips Manse (building 1752), taken before the dooryard fence was torn down and the piazza added, is reproduced. The remodeling of the house was done after the deaths of Miss Caroline and Miss Susan Phillips 3 in 1883. In 1884 Bishop Brooks became is owner, and H. H. Richardson, architect of Trinity church in Boston, drew plans for the alterations which brought the house more nearly in keeping with current living demands.
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