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When H. Rodney Sharp restored the Corbit-Sharp House in 1938, he established a Colonial Revival Garden in the rear with the assistance of well-known landscape architect, Marian Cruger Coffin, one of the first American women landscape architects and one of the first women to study architecture at MIT.

The layout includes all the hallmarks of a Colonial Revival Garden, including a formal, symmetrical design, straight brick walks, boxwood hedges, and a romantic structure, notably a delightful octagonal stone building.

From the Collection

Silhouette of Susannah Tatlow Golden

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of Charles Dorman
The interior cornice in the Corbit-Sharp House with mutule blocks is a Georgian feature borrowed from Greek Doric architecture. Mutule blocks can also be seen in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall.