Fletcher Steele, Landscape Gardener

On page 81 of Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of Gardenmaker's Live, 1885-1971 by Robin Karson (A Ngaere Macray Book, Sagapress, Inc., NY 1989) you can read this account:

Mary Schofield, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1923-1935

It is not unusual for Steele to design more than one property for the same client, but Mary Schofield set a record by commissioning nine separate projects between 1923 and 1935.  Among these were two church landscapes; the Peterborough, New Hampshire, railroad station; a teacher's lodge; a factory site; and three family-owned homes (one of them a 120-year-old cottage in Quebec.)  The most interesting cluster of work took place on the shore of a millpond in Peterborough.  Here Steele used old factory foundations and new retaining walls to create a system of terraces adjacent to the Schofield's main home, Between Still Waters, which sat on the pond's edge. 

In the book are photographs of the garden that are in the 2003 edition of Karson's book, page 79 and 80:
Waterfall Terraces, Peterborough, New Hampshire shortly after planting (SUNY ESF, College Archives)
Plan for Waterfall Terraces.  (SUNY EST, College Archives.)

Interestingly, Schofield or her heirs apparently implored the Town to take over maintenance of the gardens as a 'town garden.'  The Town was not interested, I understand, and the owners of the Beside Still Waters home became  the maintainers of the gardens, sometimes overgrown and sometimes in disrepair.