Title:
Pioneers of American landscape design
Publication Information:
New York : McGraw-Hill, 2000
ISBN:
9780071344203
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Summary
Summary
This work contains 140 entries representing the key figures in American landscape architecture, each accompanied by biographical material, discussion of design approach and methodology, representative plans and photographs of major plans.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| A Bit of History | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| The Pioneers | |
| Stanley William Abbott | p. 1 |
| Nellie B. Allen | p. 3 |
| Liberty Hyde Bailey | p. 6 |
| Benjamin Banneker | p. 9 |
| Nathan Franklin Barrett | p. 10 |
| Patrick Barry | p. 14 |
| Harland Bartholomew | p. 14 |
| John Bartram | p. 16 |
| Sylvester Baxter | p. 19 |
| Jacob Bigelow | p. 22 |
| Georges H. Bignault | p. 26 |
| John Blair | p. 27 |
| Myrl E. Bottomley | p. 30 |
| Ernest W. Bowditch | p. 32 |
| Loutrel Winslow Briggs | p. 35 |
| Elizabeth J. Bullard | p. 37 |
| George Elberton Burnap | p. 39 |
| Alfred Caldwell | p. 43 |
| Marjorie Sewell Cautley | p. 47 |
| Stephen Child | p. 49 |
| Thomas Dolliver Church | p. 52 |
| Gilmore David Clarke | p. 56 |
| Horace William Shaler Cleveland | p. 61 |
| Marian Cruger Coffin | p. 64 |
| Robert Morris Copeland | p. 68 |
| Ralph Dalton Cornell | p. 70 |
| Lucille Council | p. 72 |
| Howard Daniels | p. 73 |
| James Frederick Dawson | p. 76 |
| Ruth Bramley Dean | p. 79 |
| Henry A. S. Dearborn | p. 82 |
| S. R. DeBoer | p. 85 |
| Alling Stephen DeForest | p. 88 |
| Lockwood de Forest III | p. 92 |
| Andrew Jackson Downing | p. 96 |
| Earle Sumner Draper | p. 100 |
| Frances Duncan | p. 103 |
| Hans Jacob Ehlers | p. 104 |
| Louis Augustus Ehlers | p. 106 |
| Charles Eliot | p. 107 |
| George Ellwanger | p. 110 |
| Philip Homer Elwood | p. 113 |
| Helena Rutherfurd Ely | p. 115 |
| Beatrix Jones Farrand | p. 117 |
| Bryant Fleming | p. 120 |
| Harriett Risley Foote | p. 123 |
| Samuel Wesley Fordyce | p. 125 |
| Robert Ludlow Fowler Jr. | p. 127 |
| Paul Rubens Frost | p. 129 |
| Percival Gallagher | p. 131 |
| Alfred Geiffert Jr. | p. 132 |
| George Gibbs Jr. | p. 135 |
| Charles Freeman Gillette | p. 138 |
| Genevieve Gillette | p. 141 |
| Rose Ishbel Greely | p. 143 |
| James L. Greenleaf | p. 146 |
| Walter Burley Griffin | p. 149 |
| Ralph E. Griswold | p. 151 |
| George Duffield Hall | p. 156 |
| William Hammond Hall | p. 159 |
| Sidney J. Hare and S. Herbert Hare | p. 162 |
| Peter Henderson | p. 168 |
| Alden Hopkins | p. 170 |
| Roland Hoyt | p. 175 |
| Henry Vincent Hubbard | p. 177 |
| Daniel Ray Hull | p. 180 |
| Edward Huntsman-Trout | p. 184 |
| Martha Brookes Hutcheson | p. 188 |
| Umberto Innocenti | p. 192 |
| John Brinckerhoff Jackson | p. 195 |
| Thomas Jefferson | p. 198 |
| Jens Jensen | p. 203 |
| Maximilian G. Kern | p. 209 |
| George Edward Kessler | p. 212 |
| Louisa Yeomans King | p. 216 |
| Emerson Knight | p. 217 |
| Charles Downing Lay | p. 221 |
| Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr. | p. 223 |
| Elizabeth Lord | p. 227 |
| Guy Lowell | p. 230 |
| Benton MacKaye | p. 233 |
| Warren Henry Manning | p. 236 |
| William Bell Marquis | p. 242 |
| Cliff May | p. 246 |
| Annette E. McCrea | p. 248 |
| J. Horace McFarland | p. 249 |
| Wilhelm Tyler Miller | p. 252 |
| Anthony Urbanski Morell | p. 253 |
| Samuel Pike Negus | p. 258 |
| Norman Thomas Newton | p. 260 |
| Arthur Richardson Nichols | p. 261 |
| Rose Standish Nichols | p. 262 |
| John Nolen | p. 264 |
| John Notman | p. 269 |
| Olmsted Brothers | p. 272 |
| Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. | p. 273 |
| Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. | p. 277 |
| John Charles Olmsted | p. 282 |
| Andre Parmentier | p. 285 |
| Samuel Parsons Jr. | p. 287 |
| William C. Pauley | p. 291 |
| Elbert Peets | p. 293 |
| Charles A. Platt | p. 297 |
| Bremer Whidden Pond | p. 300 |
| James Sturgis Pray | p. 303 |
| Charles Pierpont Punchard Jr. | p. 304 |
| William Punchard | p. 306 |
| Michael Rapuano | p. 308 |
| Richard Requa | p. 312 |
| Charles Mulford Robinson | p. 315 |
| James C. Rose | p. 318 |
| Lester Rowntree | p. 322 |
| Charles Sprague Sargent | p. 324 |
| William Saunders | p. 327 |
| Edith Schryver | p. 332 |
| Reinhard Schuetze | p. 332 |
| Frank J. Scott | p. 336 |
| Thomas W. Sears | p. 338 |
| Kate Olivia Sessions | p. 343 |
| Louise Shelton | p. 344 |
| Ellen Biddle Shipman | p. 346 |
| Arthur Asahel Shurcliff | p. 351 |
| Philip Trammell Shutze | p. 357 |
| James C. Sidney | p. 360 |
| Ossian Cole Simonds | p. 363 |
| Wilbur H. Simonson | p. 369 |
| John Jay Smith | p. 373 |
| Fletcher Steele | p. 375 |
| Ezra Clarke Stiles | p. 381 |
| Adoph Strauch | p. 384 |
| Grace Tabor | p. 388 |
| Albert Davis Taylor | p. 390 |
| Christopher Tunnard | p. 396 |
| Francis Townsend Underhill | p. 398 |
| Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer | p. 403 |
| Calvert Vaux | p. 404 |
| Downing Vaux | p. 409 |
| Thomas Chalmers Vint | p. 413 |
| Ferruccio Vitale | p. 417 |
| Alexander Wadsworth | p. 420 |
| John Aston Warder | p. 422 |
| George Edwin Waring Jr. | p. 424 |
| George Washington | p. 427 |
| Hazel Wood Waterman | p. 431 |
| Frank Albert Waugh | p. 434 |
| Nelva Margaret Weber | p. 436 |
| Jacob Weidenmann | p. 439 |
| Adonijah Strong Welch | p. 442 |
| Robert Wheelwright | p. 444 |
| Stanley Hart White | p. 447 |
| Edward Clark Whiting | p. 449 |
| Louise Beebe Wilder | p. 453 |
| Morley Jeffers Williams | p. 455 |
| Harriett Barnhart Wimmer | p. 458 |
| Margaret Winters | p. 460 |
| Henry Wright | p. 461 |
| Mabel Osgood Wright | p. 464 |
| Richardson Wright | p. 467 |
| Alanson Phelps Wyman | p. 468 |
| Florence Yoch | p. 470 |
| Sites Accessible to the Public | p. 475 |
| Contributors | p. 484 |
