Rieley & Associates undertook the creation of a Japanese garden on Morven’s grounds during John Kluge’s stewardship. The initial site plan took advantage of the remarkable opportunity to build a garden setting which appears a natural part of the Virginia landscape from the outside while revealing a garden built on Japanese traditions on the inside. A wooded vale isolated from the house and formal garden by a drop in elevation set the scene for a small pond downstream from a larger one constructed to supply recirculating water for the stone waterfalls proposed for the Japanese garden. The plan also sited the tea house and entrance gate to the garden. Rieley & Associates then assembled a team that included a Japanese landscape architect and architect to flesh out the preliminary plans for the garden and tea house. Subsequently, a Japanese construction company implemented the plans.