Pioneers of American landscape design

Birnbaum, Charles A. (Added Author). Karson, Robin S. (Added Author). United States. National Park Service. (Added Author).

Summary: "Pioneers of American Landscape Design introduces you to the geniuses and more ordinary folk who brought about the key decisions that shaped American landscapes and public spaces - and established the United States as a leader in land design, planning, and conservation.".

Record details

ISBN: 0071344209
ISBN: 9780071344203
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 486 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : McGraw Hill, 2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A project of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative, Library of American Landscape History, Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States at Wave Hill."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface / by Robin Karson -- A bit of history / Catha Grace Rambusch -- Introduction / by Charles A. Birnbaum -- The pioneers. Stanley William Abbott ; Nellie B. Allen ; Liberty Hyde Bailey ; Benjamin Banneker ; Nathan Franklin Barrett ; Patrick Barry ; Harland Bartholomew ; John Bartram ; Sylvester Baxter ; Jacob Bigelow ; Georges H. Bignault ; John Blair ; Myrl E. Bottomley ; Ernest W. Bowditch ; Loutrel Winslow Briggs ; Elizabeth J. Bullard ; George Elberton Burnap ; Alfred Caldwell ; Marjorie Sewell Cautley ; Stephen Child ; Thomas Dolliver Church ; Gilmore David Clarke ; Horace William Shaler Cleveland ; Marian Cruger Coffin ; Robert Morris Copeland ; Ralph Dalton Cornell ; Lucille Council ; Howard Daniels ; James Frederick Dawson ; Ruth Bramley Dean ; Henry A.S. Dearborn ; S.R. DeBoer ; Alling Stephen DeForest ; Lockwood de Forest III ; Andrew Jackson Downing ; Earle Sumner Draper ; Frances Duncan ; Hans Jacob Ehlers ; Louis Augustus Ehlers ; Charles Eliot ; George Ellwanger ; Philip Homer Elwood ; Helena Rutherfurd Ely ; Beatrix Jones Farrand ; Bryant Fleming ; Harriett Risley Foote ; Samuel Wesley Fordyce ; Robert Ludlow Fowler Jr. ; Paul Rubens Frost ; Percival Gallagher ; Alfred Geiffert Jr. ; George Gibbs Jr. ; Charles Freeman Gillette ; Genevieve Gillette ; Rose Ishbel Greely ; James L. Greenleaf ; Walter Burley Griffin ; Ralph E. Griswold ; George Duffield Hall ; William Hammond Hall ; Sidney J. Hare and S. Herbert Hare ; Peter Henderson ; Alden Hopkins ; Roland Hoyt ; Henry Vincent Hubbard ; Daniel Ray Hull ; Edward Huntsman-Trout ; Martha Brookes Hutcheson ; Umberto Innocenti ; John Brinckerhoff Jackson ; Thomas Jefferson ; Jens Jensen ; Maximilian G. Kern ; George Edward Kessler ; Louisa Yeomans King ; Emerson Knight ; Charles Downing Lay ; Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr. ; Elizabeth Lord ; Guy Lowell ; Benton MacKaye ; Warren Henry Manning ; William Bell Marquis ; Cliff May ; Annette E. McCrea ; J. Horace McFarland ; Wilhelm Tyler Miller ; Anthony Urbanski Morell ; Samuel Pike Negus ; Norman Thomas Newton ; Arthur Richardson Nichols ; Rose Standish Nichols ; John Nolen ; John Notman ; Olmsted Brothers ; Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. ; Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. ; John Charles Olmsted ; Andre Parmentier ; Samuel Parsons Jr. ; William C. Pauley ; Elbert Peets ; Charles A. Platt ; Bremer Whidden Pond ; James Sturgis Pray ; Charles Pierpont Punchard Jr. ; William Punchard ; Michael Rapuano ; Richard Requa ; Charles Mulford Robinson ; James C. Rose ; Lester Rowntree ; Charles Sprague Sargent ; William Saunders ; Edith Schryver ; Reinhard Schuetze ; Frank J. Scott ; Thomas W. Sears ; Kate Olivia Sessions ; Louise Shelton ; Ellen Biddle Shipman ; Arthur Asahel Shurcliff ; Philip Trammell Shutze ; James C. Sidney ; Ossian Cole Simonds ; Wilbur H. Simonson ; John Jay Smith ; Fletcher Steele ; Ezra Clarke Stiles ; Adoph Strauch ; Grace Tabor ; Albert Davis Taylor ; Christopher Tunnard ; Francis Townsend Underhill ; Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer ; Calvert Vaux ; Downing Vaux ; Thomas Chalmers Vint ; Ferruccio Vitale ; Alexander Wadsworth ; John Aston Warder ; George Edwin Waring Jr. ; George Washington ; Hazel Wood Waterman ; Frank Albert Waugh ; Nelva Margaret Weber ; Jacob Weidenmann ; Adonijah Strong Welch ; Robert Wheelwright ; Stanley Hart White ; Edward Clark Whiting ; Louise Beebe Wilder ; Morley Jeffers Williams ; Harriett Barnhart Wimmer ; Margaret Winters ; Henry Wright ; Mabel Osgood Wright ; Richardson Wright ; Alanson Phelps Wyman ; Florence Yoch -- Sites accessible to the public.