When I came to the IMA in 2002, one of the areas assigned to me was the Garden Terrace building and the adjacent Four Seasons Garden. The building was constructed in 1939-40 by J. K Lilly, Jr. as a recreation center for the estate, including an indoor bowling alley plus indoor and outdoor swimming pools. The surrounding gardens were designed by Louisville-based landscape architect Anne Bruce Haldeman (the garden’s restoration and interpretation of the place of women in landscape architecture is a goal of the IMA Environmental and Historic Preservation Division).










