About Edgewood Orchard

Irene Pamperin Haberland buys the 80 acre Edgewood Orchard property on Peninsula Players Road, saying she had fallen in love with some trees.

Irene and her daughter Anne open Edgewood Orchard Galleries for its first day on June 29, 1969 from 2 PM to 5 PM.   “We had no lights, but we had champagne.”

The first few years at the gallery were marked by modest but steady improvements- lights were added to show the artwork better and pallets and wooden crates for display were eventually replaced with more suitable pedestals.  The constant of Anne’s enthusiasm about the artwork she was showing and Irene’s colorful presence in her antique corner laid the foundation for a promising future at their new gallery.

Student architect Minnow Emerson abandons plans to move to Alaska and heads to Fish Creek instead to join Anne and make a life in Door County.

Anne & Minnow welcome their daughter Nell into the world, who grows up in the gallery learning about gemstones from her dear grandmother Irene.

The mid-70s at Edgewood had Nell growing up, Irene selling antiques in her corner of the barn, and new artists added to each year to share their work with the increasing number of gallery visitors.

Anne & Minnow welcome a new son, Tucker.  Now all grown up, Tucker and his wife, also named Anne,  live close to the gallery and are the owners and operators of Emerson Chiropractic, a chiropractic clinic in nearby Juddville, WI.

Edgewood hosted it’s first glass weekend on July 31 and August 1, 1982. The annual event evolved to include a temporary glass furnace with onsite glassblowing demonstrations, capped off with a pig roast/potluck on the last day of the weekend.

New Gallery entrance, pavers in the courtyard and The Courtyard Gallery are completed.

Minnow builds and installs the leaded glass portico, giving the gallery courtyard the look it has today.

Nell Emerson returns to Fish Creek to work at the gallery, the start of the 3rd generation at Edgewood Orchard.

Anne and Nell publish the 1st Edgewood benefit cookbook, “An Artist’s Food for Thought”, on the gallery’s 35th Anniversary.  The cookbook sold out and raised $76,000 that was donated to programs fighting hunger.

J.R. Jarosh starts working at Edgewood Orchard and begins to work on the gardens around the gallery.

Nell and J.R. welcome their twin daughters Abby and Anna into the world, beginning the family’s fourth generation at Edgewood Orchard.

After working on the new sculpture garden in the summer and fall of 2007 and spring of 2008, J.R. was happy to see the sculpture garden ready to open with the start of the Gallery’s 40th season on May 3, 2008.

Anne, Nell, and Dan Cross publish the second Edgewood benefit cookbook, “An Artist’s Food for the Soul”, on the gallery’s 40th Anniversary. The cookbook sold out and raised $135,000 that was donated to not-for-profit organizations that work to make children’s lives better.

As Abby and Anna grow up at the gallery and enjoy spending time with Anne and Minnow much like Nell did with her grandmother, the gardens around the gallery continue to grow as well.

Nell, J.R., Abby, Anna & Arianna Fearing publish the third Edgewood benefit cookbook, “An Artist’s Food for Joy”, on the gallery’s 50th Anniversary. This cookbook is currently available and has raised over $50,000 so far, with all proceeds being donated to not-for-profit organizations that work to make children’s lives better. (If you are part of a not-for-profit organization that helps children and would like to sell the cookbook to raise money for your organization, please contact the gallery.)

After years of wishing it was there, we have completed a new deck linking the upstairs of the gallery barn to a new gallery space above the Courtyard Gallery. The deck is great for getting between buildings, taking in a birds-eye view of the gallery courtyard and sculpture garden, or a photo-op with the 100 year old “EDGEWOOD ORCHARD” sign that has been hanging on the west end of the barn since 1920.

A second level was added over the gallery packing shed in early 2022 to create a beautiful new gallery space over the existing Courtyard Gallery and also create an expanded painting storage and private viewing area.  J.R. also got some insulation and heat in the Packing Shed, so no more shivering while gift wrapping work during our Winter Weekends!