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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

Tea cup and saucer

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
1800-1830
Georgian houses displayed a strict symmetry with a paneled door as a centerpiece capped by an elaborate crown or pediment. The decorative crown (entablature) and fanlight transom window are indications of the Corbit's wealth.