Bremer W. Pond Collection
Bremer W. Pond: influential landscape architect and early steward of UNH’s campus development.
Bremmer Whidden Pond (1884 – 1959) was a landscape architect with a prolific career working on a number of projects across the United States. Born in Boston, he graduated with his B.S. from Dartmouth College in 1906 and went on to earn an M.L.A. at Harvard in 1911.
Pond worked for the Olmsted Brothers (1911–1914), established his own firm, and taught at the Harvard Landscape Architecture Program (later known as the Harvard School of Graduate Design), where he served as chairman and was a faculty member for most of his career (1914–1950). His notable work mostly resides in New England, where his firm primarily focused on residential properties, recreational spaces, and campuses. Pond was well-respected in his field and worked to make landscape architecture a more inclusive profession for women.
One of the major projects during his tenure at Harvard was the development of UNH’s landscape into a modern campus. UNH President Ralph D. Hetzel contacted Pond in June of 1924 to solicit his services, and with Architect Eric T. Huddleston, he began his vision to develop the landscape into one that closely resembles the campus grounds we see today. Pond would serve as the primary landscape architect for UNH for the next two decades and after 1944, acted as a consultant for future campus development plans. He also rendered similar services to his alma mater, Dartmouth College.
This digital collection features Pond’s planning process and associated records, which includes detailed correspondence and reviews of plans with the President’s office, oversized blueprint drawings, and photographic surveys of campus properties and the surrounding town of Durham during various phases of development.
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Project Advisor: Eleta Exline, Scholarly Communication Librarian
Project Advisor: Kai Uchida, University Archivist
Production Coordinator: Sarah Stinson, Digital Collections Coordinator
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