Anne Brooke who was the Chair of the Board of the Friends of the Public Garden for the past four years up until June 2016, has passed away on October 13 after a lengthy illness. She resided with her husband Peter in the Back Bay.
Anne Brooke
As Chair of The Friends of the Public Garden, Anne worked with the city of Boston to protect and enhance Boston’s first public parks: the Boston Common, Public Garden, and Commonwealth Avenue Mall.
Brooke was only the second president of the association that was founded in 1970, succeeding the founder Henry Lee.
She helped oversee the $4 million renovation of Brewer Fountain Plaza and its adjacent landscape at the southeast corner of the Common. It has since been revitalized with a food truck, tables and chairs, a reading room and piano music at lunch time in the summers.
There is still continuing renovations of the Boylston Street border in the Garden. She helped with securing the funding for the current restoration of the fountain at the George Robert White Memorial.
Throughout those efforts she worked to continue to the ongoing care and preservation of trees, sculptures and turf in all three parks.
Before Brooke served as the chair she served on the board for more than six years, serving as co-chair of the Development and Membership Committees and as a member of the Executive Committee.
In the past Brooke was also active with the Mass Audubon Society, where she served as a board member for 20 years and as vice-president for 10 of those years.
She was instrumental in establishing the Boston Nature Center in Mattapan at the end of the Emerald Necklace. Brooke was an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and of the Museum of Fine Arts, a Visitor to the Harvard Art Museums, and a member of the Council of Overseers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
During her time in Concord, Massachusetts where raised her three sons, Brooke served as president of the Concord Garden Club, chairman of the Historic Districts Commission, and president of the board of the Concord Museum.
A memorial service is planned and details will be announced.
Anne Brooke who was the Chair of the Board of the Friends of the Public Garden for the past four years up until June 2016, has passed away on October 13 after a lengthy illness. She resided with her husband Peter in the Back Bay.
As Chair of The Friends of the Public Garden, Anne worked with the city of Boston to protect and enhance Boston’s first public parks: the Boston Common, Public Garden, and Commonwealth Avenue Mall.
Brooke was only the second president of the association that was founded in 1970, succeeding the founder Henry Lee.
She helped oversee the $4 million renovation of Brewer Fountain Plaza and its adjacent landscape at the southeast corner of the Common. It has since been revitalized with a food truck, tables and chairs, a reading room and piano music at lunch time in the summers.
There is still continuing renovations of the Boylston Street border in the Garden. She helped with securing the funding for the current restoration of the fountain at the George Robert White Memorial.
Throughout those efforts she worked to continue to the ongoing care and preservation of trees, sculptures and turf in all three parks.
Before Brooke served as the chair she served on the board for more than six years, serving as co-chair of the Development and Membership Committees and as a member of the Executive Committee.
In the past Brooke was also active with the Mass Audubon Society, where she served as a board member for 20 years and as vice-president for 10 of those years.
She was instrumental in establishing the Boston Nature Center in Mattapan at the end of the Emerald Necklace. Brooke was an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and of the Museum of Fine Arts, a Visitor to the Harvard Art Museums, and a member of the Council of Overseers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
During her time in Concord, Massachusetts where raised her three sons, Brooke served as president of the Concord Garden Club, chairman of the Historic Districts Commission, and president of the board of the Concord Museum.