Library of American Landscape History

BOOKS AND FILMS • FALL/WINTER 2018

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Introduction 6

NEW Ellen Shipman and the American Garden Judith B. Tankard 7 The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System [paperback] Francis R. Kowsky 8

FORTHCOMING Hare & Hare: Landscape Architects and City Planners Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein 9 The Greatest Beach: A History of Cape Cod National Seashore Ethan Carr 10 Robert Royston Reuben Rainey and JC Miller 11 A. E. Bye Thaisa Way 12

BACKLIST Lawrence Halprin Kenneth I. Helphand 13 Warren H. Manning: Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner Edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback 14 James Rose Dean Cardasis 15 Ruth Shellhorn Kelly Comras 16 Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South William E. O’Brien 17 Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815–1852 David Schuyler 18 John Nolen: Landscape Architect and City Planner R. Bruce Stephenson 19 Arthur A. Shurcliff: Design, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape Elizabeth Hope Cushing 20 Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger G. Reed 21 A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era Robin Karson 22 A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens Susan L. Klaus 23

2 Graceland Cemetery: A Design History Christopher Vernon 24 The Native Landscape Reader Edited by Robert E. Grese 25 Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma Ethan Carr 26 Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Gardenmaker’s Life, 1885–1971 Robin Karson 27 Design in the Little Garden Fletcher Steele 28 Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery Blanche M. G. Linden 29 Henry Shaw’s Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park Carol Grove 30 A World of Her Own Making: Katharine Smith Reynolds and the Landscape of Reynolda Catherine Howett 31 Midwestern Landscape Architecture Edited by William H. Tishler 32 Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England Frederick Law Olmsted 33 The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt, and Ellen Biddle Shipman Robin Karson 34

ASLA CENTENNIAL REPRINT SERIES Landscape for Living Garret Eckbo 35 New Towns for Old John Nolen 36 Landscape-Gardening O. C. Simonds 37 Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening Robert Morris Copeland 38 The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening Wilhelm Miller 39 The Art of Landscape Architecture Samuel Parsons Jr. 40 Landscape Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West; with an Essay on Forest Planting on the Great Plains H. W. S. Cleveland 41 The Spirit of the Garden Martha Brookes Hutcheson 42

3 Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect Charles W. Eliot 43 Book of Landscape Gardening Frank A. Waugh 44

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES 45

DESIGNING THE AMERICAN PARK SERIES 48 Edited by Ethan Carr

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN SERIES 49 Edited by Daniel J. Nadenicek

MASTERS OF MODERN LANDSCAPE DESIGN 50 Edited by Robin Karson and Sarah Allaback

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS CENTENNIAL REPRINT SERIES 51

NORTH AMERICA BY DESIGN FILM SERIES 52 Fletcher Steele and Naumkeag: A Playground of the Imagination 53

Designing in the Prairie Spirit: A Conversation with Darrel Morrison 54

The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System 55

Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts 56

Ruth Shellhorn: Midcentury Landscape Design in Southern California 57

4 Library of American Landscape History is the leading publisher of books that advance the study and practice of American landscape architecture—from gardens and parks to city plans. LALH books educate the public, motivating stewardship of signifcant places and the environment, and they inspire new designs that connect people with nature.

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5 INTRODUCTION

Library of American Landscape History, the ing two more groundbreaking book series— only not-for-proft organization devoted to pub- Critical Studies in the History of Environmental lishing books on the history of the North Amer- Design and Designing the American Park— ican landscape, was founded in 1992 to advance which extend our understanding of landscape scholarship in the feld of landscape studies. architecture by focusing on public spaces and Since then, LALH has developed dozens of social issues. Other monographs published by books as well as touring exhibitions, flms, and LALH address a range of topics related to land- other online resources featuring North Ameri- scapes and their design, all of which are chosen ca’s rich and varied landscape. In 2011, LALH for their relevance in the feld today and their com­pleted the ASLA Centennial Reprint series, contribution to the historical record. a collection of ten classic volumes selected for As the LALH catalog demonstrates, the les­ their impact on the history of landscape design. sons of early practitioners continue to provide Two years ago, LALH launched its Masters insight into the development of design solu­tions of Modern Landscape Design series with Ruth for the twenty-frst century as well as the pres- Shellhorn, the frst of many volumes that will ervation of historic landscapes. The books fea- explore signifcant fgures in American land- tured in LALH’s catalog reflect its mission—to scape design, providing missing chapters in our advance the study and practice of American history and establishing a new understanding landscape architecture, motivate stewardship of the historical context and basis of landscape of signifcant places and the environment, and design practice today. Also in partnership with inspire new designs that connect people with the University of Georgia Press, LALH is build- nature.

6 NEW

Ellen Shipman and the American Garden ELLEN SHIPMAN Judith B. Tankard AND THE AMERICAN GARDEN

A revised edition of the LALH classic

University of Georgia Press in association with LALH Cloth $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-8203-5208-4 To order: University of Georgia Press

JUDITH B. TANKARD

The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman, published in In response to the popularity of Tankard’s 1996, introduced a generation of garden lovers book and its increasing scarcity, LALH pub- to Ellen Shipman (1869–1950), a Philadelphian lished an updated edition that covers several who discovered her remarkable talent for land- gardens designed by Shipman that were discov- scape design in the artists’ colony in Cornish, ered as a result of the original edition—among New Hampshire. Beginning her career as a them, the Italian Garden at the Cummer Mu- hands-on gardener, Shipman received drafting seum of Art & Gardens (Jacksonville, Fla.) and instruction from Charles A. Platt. In time, she Tranquillity Farm (Middlebury, Conn.). The was collaborating with Platt, Warren H. Man- revised edition also features a new full-color ning, and other landscape architects, who in- introduction and an expansive new design. corporated her sumptuous flower borders into their estate layouts. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: The scope of Shipman’s practice and gar- denmaking grew as she set up her professional “It is a handsome book, valuable not only to his- offce in New Hampshire. In the early 1920s she torians and garden designers, but also to every moved to New York City, where she attracted garden maker. The details and explanations clients throughout the United States, eventu- offered by Tankard reveal much of the garden ally recording more than 650 commissions. Ju- designer’s art.” dith B. Tankard’s award-winning book was the —George Waters, Pacific Horticulture frst to present Shipman’s achievements and in doing so illuminated a neglected topic: women “Fascinating, historic, poignant.” and American landscape architecture. —Maxine Kumin, The New York Times

7 NEW

The Best Planned City in the

World: Olmsted, Vaux, and THE BEST PLANNED CITY IN THE WORLD the Buffalo Park System KOWSKY Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System Olmsted, Vaux,Olmsted, Buffalo the and Park System WORLD BEST THE CITY IN THE PLANNED Francis R. Kowsky

Paperback edition

A volume in the series Designing the American Park

LALH/University of Massachusetts Press Paper $29.95 ISBN: 978-1-62534-291-1 To order: University of Massachusetts Press

UNIVERSITY OF Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the MASSACHUSETTS PRESS * LIBRARY OF AMERICAN Foundation for Landscape Studies LANDSCAPE HISTORY FRANCIS R. KOWSKY

This award-winning book is the definitive account of and pass their judgements on the opportunity the creation and development of the country’s first ur- for Buffalo to demonstrate its civic arrival with ban park system. a grand new park. This is the story that Fran- cis Kowsky tells, and he does so virtually to Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and perfection.” —Landscape Journal Calvert Vaux created a series of parks and park- ways for Buffalo, New York, that drew national “Kowsky reminds us that parks are not open and international attention. The improvements spaces awaiting development, and that peo- augmented the city’s original plan with ur- ple need trees, meadows, expanses of water, ban design features inspired by Second Empire and walking paths, and biking trails. . . . [His} Paris, including the frst system of “parkways” masterful book makes the visionary landscape to grace an American city. Displaying the plan and planning principles Olmsted and Vaux at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, Olm- pioneered in Buffalo clear, with the hope that sted declared Buffalo “the best planned city, as restoration efforts will once again allow it to be- to streets, public places, and grounds, in the come the best planned city in the world.” United States, if not in the world.” —Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide In this book Francis R. Kowsky illuminates this remarkable constellation of projects. Uti- “In his magnifcent new book, with its lucid lizing original plans, drawings, photographs, prose and deft organization, Kowsky follows and copious numbers of reports and letters, he the evolution of Olmsted and Vaux’s astonish- brings new perspective to this vast undertaking, ing creations in Buffalo—those ‘landscapes of analyzing it as an expression of the visionary recreation, residence, memory, and healing,’ landscape and planning principles that Olmsted as he so gracefully describes them. . . . An ex- and Vaux pioneered. traordinary variety and abundance of illus- trations fll the book, including photographs “In 1868, an invitation was made to Frederick new and old, maps, diagrams, paintings, and Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the men who lithographs.” —Site/Lines had designed Central Park, to come upstate

8 FORTHCOMING

Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects

and City Planners HARE & HARE, LANDSCAPE Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein ARCHITECTS AND CITY PLANNERS O CAROL GROVE AND A volume in the series CYDNEY MILLSTEIN Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design

University of Georgia Press in association with LALH Cloth $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-8203-5481-1 To order: University of Georgia Press

When Sidney J. Hare (1860–1938) and S. Her- urbane Harvard-trained landscape architect bert Hare (1888–1960) launched their Kansas who traveled Europe and lived in a modern City frm in 1910, they founded what would apartment building, Grove and Millstein chron- become the most influential landscape archi- icle the growth of the feld from its amorphous tecture and planning practice in the Midwest. Victorian beginnings to its coalescence as a pro- Over time, their work became increasingly far- fession during the frst half of the twentieth ranging, both in its geographical scope and proj- century. Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City ect types. Between 1924 and 1955, Hare & Hare Planners provides a unique and valuable paral- commissions included ffty-four cemeteries in lel to studies of prominent East and West Coast ffteen states; numerous city and state parks landscape architecture frms—one that ex- (seventeen in Missouri alone); more than ff- pands the reader’s understanding of the history teen subdivisions in Salt Lake City; the Denver of American landscape architecture practice. neighborhood of Belcaro Park; the picturesque grounds of the Christian Science Sanatorium in “Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein have mined Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; and the Univer- an impressive array of period sources, published sity of Texas at Austin among ffty-one college and archival, to provide a detailed, meticulously and university campuses. researched account of their subject. This book In their forthcoming book, Carol Grove and should be welcomed by all historians of land- Cydney Millstein document the extraordinary scape architecture in the United States and also achievements of this little-known frm and by many historians of planning and urbanism weave them into a narrative that spans the birth more broadly, as well as practitioners who un- of the late nineteenth-century “modern cem- derstand how history can inform the future.” etery movement” to midcentury modernism. —Richard Longstreth, George Washington Through the fgures of Sidney, a “homespun” University amateur geologist who built a rustic family re- treat called Harecliff, and his son Herbert, an

9 FORTHCOMING

The Greatest Beach: A History of Cape Cod National Seashore Ethan Carr The Greatest Beach A HISTORY OF CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE A volume in the series Designing the American Park

University of Georgia Press in association with LALH

ETHAN CARR

In the mid-nineteenth century, Thoreau recog- The Greatest Beach will be essential read- nized the importance of preserving the com- ing for all who are concerned with protecting plex and fragile landscape of Cape Cod, with the nation’s gradually diminishing cultural its weathered windmills, expansive beaches, landscapes. In his fnal analysis of Cape Cod dunes, wetlands, and harbors, and the lives National Seashore, Carr poses provocative that flourished here, supported by the maritime questions about how to balance the conserva- industries and saltworks. One hundred years tion of natural and cultural resources in re- later, the National Park Service—working with gions threatened by increasing visitation and a group of concerned locals, then-senator John development. F. Kennedy, and other supporters—took on the challenge of meeting the needs of a burgeoning “Carr explores the shift toward a more holistic public in this region of unique natural beauty landscape approach to cultural resource man- and cultural heritage. agement and the broader applicability of the To those who were settled in the remote “Cape Cod Model”—providing additional insight wilds of the Cape, the impending development into contemporary landscape challenges facing was threatening, and, as the award-winning the national park system today. This broad nar- historian Ethan Carr explains, the visionary rative is skillfully interwoven with the arresting plan to create a national seashore came very story of the establishment of Cape Cod National close to failure. Success was achieved through Seashore, a park that has served as a model for unprecedented public outreach, as the National testing a wide variety of new approaches to park Park Service and like-minded Cape Codders making and administration. Carr has written worked to convince entire communities of the an exceptionally readable book that is informa- long-term value of a park that could accommo- tive, analytical, and engaging.” date millions of tourists. Years of contentious —Rolf Diamant, University of Vermont negotiations resulted in the innovative compro- mise between private and public interests now known as the “Cape Cod model.”

10 FORTHCOMING

Robert Royston Reuben Rainey and JC Miller ROBERT ROYSTON

A volume in the series Masters of Modern Landscape Design

University of Georgia Press in association with LALH

REUBEN RAINEY AND JC MILLER

The frst biography of the landscape architect he considered spaces for the American family— Robert Royston (1918–2008) documents the a novel concept at a time when such neighbor- life and work of a designer and teacher who hood parks were typically limited to playing shaped the postwar Bay Area landscape with felds and stock playground equipment. This visionary designs for public spaces. Early in his new type of park offered not only distinct areas career, Royston conceived of the “landscape ma- and activities for all ages but also easy access to trix,” a system of interconnected parks, plazas, the community centers, libraries, and other fa- and parkways that he hoped could bring order cilities within the landscape matrix. and amenity to the rapidly developing suburbs. Royston, Hanamoto & Mayes, the frm The ideals represented by the landscape matrix Royston founded in 1958, grew to become one would inform his work on more than two thou- of the nation’s most influential corporatef rms. sand projects—landscapes as diverse as school Over nearly six decades of practice, Royston grounds, new towns, transit corridors, and helped to make the Bay Area a cohesive, de- housing tracts. sirable location to live and work. He designed As an apprentice of Thomas Church, Royston landscapes to beneft diverse sectors of the com- learned from a master in residential garden munity, setting a high standard of inclusivity design, but he soon moved on to establish a and environmental awareness. In addition to partnership with Garrett Eckbo and Edward the many beloved places Royston created, his Williams and to launch an academic career at perceptive humanism, passed down to his stu- Berkeley. His experience with private gardens dents and colleagues, is his enduring legacy. influenced his early public park designs, which

11 FORTHCOMING

A. E. Bye Thaisa Way A. E. BYE

A volume in the series Masters of Modern Landscape Design

University of Georgia Press in association with LALH

THAÏSA WAY

Throughout his more than ffty-year career as Soros on Long Island, with its undulating earth a landscape architect, A. E. Bye (1919–2001) mounds that become abstractions as the sun approached his work with the sensibility of an and shadows pass over them or snow melts in artist, the eye of a photographer, and the preci- ever-shifting forms. sion of a scientist. He designed landscapes to Beginning in the 1950s, he broke new intensify their inherent qualities and “moods,” ground in his feld designing campus plans for using abstract forms and defning relationships the new building type of suburban corporate among elements to explore a site’s underlying headquarters. In his work for Avon, Chrysler, natural processes. As he strove to reveal the Westinghouse, Dow Corning, and other com- essence of a landscape, Bye created memora- panies, he answered the challenge of integrat- ble places that have become modernist works ing large-scale industrial architecture into a of art. residential context by sculpting landforms and After launching his practice in 1951, Bye be- planting buffers, softening the visual impact gan developing a design aesthetic rooted in his and in some cases creating public greenspace. deep affnity for the natural world and his belief His solution became the standard for the sub- in the art of landscape architecture, its power urban corporate landscape. In his original ex- to evoke emotional responses to place. Ground- plorations of landform as an art, his celebration ing his designs in an ecological understanding of the garden as a place for reflection, and his of a site and a desire to use existing materials, effort to achieve an ecological balance in his he evolved an approach based in constructing work, A. E. Bye offered a unique and timeless landforms. He is perhaps best known for the vision of how modernist landscape architecture landscape he created for George and Annalise could improve the quality of life.

12 BACKLIST

Lawrence Halprin Kenneth I. Helphand LAWRENCE HALPRIN

A volume in the series Masters of Modern Landscape Design

University of Georgia Press in association with LALH Paperback $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-8203-5207-7 To order: University of Georgia Press

Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies

KENNETH I. HELPHAND

During a career spanning six decades, Lawrence Halprin used his conception of a Sierra stream Halprin (1916–2009) became one of the most as the catalyst for the Portland (Oregon) Open prolifc and outspoken landscape architects of Space Sequence, a series of parks featuring great his generation. He took on challenging new fountains that linked housing and civic space in project types, developing a multidisciplinary the inner city. practice that experimented with adaptive reuse A charismatic speaker and passionate artist, and ecological design in relation to shopping Halprin designed landscapes that reflected the malls, the freeway, and urban renewal. In his democratic and participatory ethic characteris- lifelong effort to improve the American land- tic of his era. He communicated his ideas as well scape, Halprin celebrated the creative process as in lectures, books, exhibits, and performances, a form of social activism. and he consulted on important urban commis- A native New Yorker, Halprin earned degrees sions throughout the country. Along with his from Cornell and the University of Wisconsin contemporary Ian McHarg, Halprin was his gen- before completing his design degree at Harvard. eration’s great proselytizer for landscape archi- In 1945, he joined Thomas Church’s frm, where tecture as environmental design. Throughout he collaborated on the iconic Donnell Garden. his long career, he strove to develop poetic and Halprin opened his own San Francisco offce in symbolic landscapes that, in his words, could 1949. Halprin’s frm initially focused on residen- “articulate a culture’s most spiritual values.” tial commissions in the Bay Area, completing close to three hundred in its inaugural decade. “Lawrence Halprin will be enormously useful to By the 1960s, the frm had gained recognition teachers and students of landscape architecture for signifcant urban renewal projects such as around the world, as well as attractive to pro- Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco (1962–68), fessional landscape architects, architects, urban Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis (1962–67), and designers, and the educated public.” Freeway Park in Seattle (1970–74). In 1965, —Laurie Olin, FASLA

13 Warren H. Manning, Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner Edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback Featuring new photographs by Carol Betsch

A volume in the series Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design

University of Georgia Press in association with LALH Cloth $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-8203-5066-0 WARREN H. MANNING To order: University of Georgia Press LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER

EDITED BY ROBIN KARSON, JANE ROY BROWN, AND SARAH ALLABACK Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the PHOTOGRAPHS BY CAROL BETSCH Foundation for Landscape Studies

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Warren H. Manning’s (1860–1938) national trained several influential designers, includ- practice comprised more than 1,600 landscape ing Fletcher Steele, A. D. Taylor, Charles Gil- design and planning projects throughout North lette, and Dan Kiley. After Manning’s death, his America, from small home grounds to estates, reputation slipped into obscurity. Contributors cemeteries, college campuses, parks and park to the Warren H. Manning Research Project systems, and new industrial towns. Manning worked for more than a decade to assess current approached his design and planning projects conditions of his built projects and to compile a from an environmental perspective, conceptu- richly illustrated compendium of site essays that alizing projects as components of larger regional illuminate the range, scope, and signifcance of (in some cases, national) systems, a method that Manning’s notable career. contrasted sharply with those of his stylistically oriented colleagues. In this regard, as in many “Manning has always been something of a cipher others, Manning had been influenced by his in landscape architectural history, and this book years with the Olmsted frm, where the founda- does a good job in clearing away some of the tions of his resource-based approach to design murkiness that has existed around him and his were forged. Manning’s overlay map methods, career. The overview essay, in particular, pro- later adopted by the renowned landscape archi- vides new insights into Manning’s life, person- tect Ian McHarg, provided the basis for comput- ality, and motivations; it also sheds light on the er mapping software in widespread use today. nature of ‘offce practice’ in the profession’s early One of the eleven founders of the American years, as Manning moves from junior designer Society of Landscape Architects, Manning also at the Olmsted frm to sole practitioner.” ran one of the nation’s largest offces, where he —Heidi Hohmann, Iowa State University

14 James Rose Dean Cardasis JAMES ROSE

A volume in the series Masters of Modern Landscape Design

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Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies

DEAN CARDASIS

James Rose, the frst biography of this important sion, including the concept of sustainability and landscape architect, explores the work of one of the wisdom of accommodating growth and the most radical fgures in the history of mid- change. century modernist American landscape design. James Rose includes new scholarship on An artist who explored his profession with many important works, including the Dicken- words and built works, Rose fearlessly critiqued son Garden in Pasadena and the Averett House the developing patterns of land use he witnessed in Columbus, Georgia, as well as unpublished during a period of rapid suburban development. correspondence. In letters to his mother, Rose The alternatives he offered in his designs for reveals a tenderness toward nature and faith in hundreds of gardens were based on innovative spiritual harmony that belies his reputation as and iconoclastic environmental and philosophic an alienated social critic. Throughout his career principles, some of which have become main- Rose refned his conservation ethic, seeing recy- stream today. cled materials and waste reduction as opportu- A classmate of Garrett Eckbo and Dan Kiley nities to create landscapes for contemplation, at Harvard, Rose was expelled in 1937 for refus- self-discovery, and pleasure. At a time when ing to design landscapes in the Beaux-Arts issues of economy and environmentalism are method. In 1940, the year he before he received even more pressing, Rose’s writings and projects his frst commission, Rose also published the are both relevant and revelatory. last of his influential articles forArchitectural Record, a series of essays written with Eckbo and “This is the book that the history of a half cen- Kiley that would become a manifesto for devel- tury of American landscape architecture is oping a modernist landscape architecture. Over missing. We all owe a great debt to Professor the next four decades, Rose articulated his phi- Cardasis for his decades-long work to protect losophy in four major books: Creative Gardens and extend the legacy of James Rose.” (1958), Gardens Make Me Laugh (1965), Modern —Patrick M. Condon, Chair, Urban Design American Gardens (1967), and The Heav­enly Envi- Program, University of British Columbia ronment (1987). His writings foreshadowed School of Architecture and Landscape many principles since embraced by the profes- Architecture

15 Ruth Shellhorn Kelly Comras RUTH SHELLHORN

A volume in the series Masters of Modern Landscape Design

University of Georgia Press in association with LALH A Bruce and Georgia McEver Fund for the Arts and Environment Publication Paperback $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-8203-4963-3 To order: University of Georgia Press

Winner, American Society of Landscape Architects Southern California Chapter Honor Award

KELLY COMRAS

In a career spanning nearly sixty years, Ruth of her profession, working tirelessly to achieve Shellhorn (1909–2006) helped shape Southern state licensure for landscape architects. In her California’s iconic modernist aesthetic. This is own practice, she collaborated closely with the fi rst full-length treatment of Shellhorn, who architects to address landscape concerns at the created close to four hundred landscape designs, earliest stages of building design, retained long- collaborated with some of the region’s most cel- term control over the maintenance of com- ebrated architects, and left her mark on places pleted projects, and considered the importance ranging from college campuses to Disneyland’s of the region’s natural environment at a time Main Street. of intense development throughout Southern Kelly Comras tells the story of Shellhorn’s California. life and career before focusing on twelve proj- ects to explore her approach to design and aes- “Kelly Comras’s book on Ruth Shellhorn will, thetic philosophy in greater detail. The book’s at long last, put her in proper perspective as an case studies include designs for Bullock’s important pioneer in landscape design and plan- department stores and Fashion Square shopping ning in California. The book is totally engaging, centers; school campuses, including a multiyear with clear, direct writing, based on impeccable master plan for the University of California at research and documentation.” Riverside; a major Los Angeles County coastal —Darrel Morrison, FASLA, Professor planning project; the western headquarters for Emeritus, University of Georgia Prudential Insurance; residential estates and gardens; and her collaboration on the original “Comras provides the context (cultural and plan for Disneyland. physical) that allows the reader to comprehend Shellhorn received formal training at Ore- the legendary Shellhorn as a person and as a gon State and Cornell University and was infl u- designer and to recognize the value of her con- enced by such contemporaries as Florence Yoch, tribution to the California landscape—and thus Beatrix Farrand, Welton Becket, and Ralph Dal- to America’s national landscape design heritage.” ton Cornell. As president of the Southern Cali- —Noel Dorsey Vernon, ASLA, Professor fornia chapter of ASLA, she became a champion Emerita, Cal Poly Pomona

16 Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South William E. O’Brien

A volume in the series Designing the American Park

University of Massachusetts Press in association with LALH Cloth $39.95 ISBN: 978-1-62534-155-6 To order: University of Massachusetts Press

Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies

Winner, American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit

During the 1930s, the state park movement the imprint of segregated state park design and the National Park Service expanded public remains visible throughout the South. access to scenic American places, especially dur- O’Brien illuminates this untold facet of Jim ing the era of the New Deal. However, under Crow history in the frst-ever study of segrega- severe Jim Crow restrictions in the South, Afri- tion in southern state parks. His book under- can Americans were routinely and offcially scores the profound disparity that persisted for denied entrance to these supposedly shared decades in the number, size, and quality of state sites. In response, advocacy groups pressured parks provided for black visitors in the Jim Crow the National Park Service to provide some facili- South. ties for African Americans. William E. O’Brien shows that these parks were typically substan- “State park design in the South during the Jim dard in relation to “whites only” areas. Crow era is a highly signifcant chapter in the As the NAACP fled federal lawsuits that cultural history of American parks, and one demanded park integration and increased pres- that has received almost no scholarly attention. sure on park offcials, southern park agencies Many state parks or park areas cre­ated under the reacted with attempts to expand segregated ‘separate but equal’ doctrine were subsequently facilities, hoping they could demonstrate that altered so that their origins are not immediately these parks achieved the “separate but equal” apparent today. O’Brien’s remarkable work of standard. But the courts consistently ruled in scholarship makes it possible for us, fnally, to favor of integration, leading to the end of seg- understand this formerly obscured category of regated state parks by the middle of the 1960s. American parks.” Even though the stories behind these largely —Ethan Carr, author of Mission 66: Modernism inferior facilities faded from public awareness, and the National Park Dilemma

17 Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, Schuyler Apostle 1815–1852 of Apostle of tAste Taste Andrew Jackson Downing anDrew David Schuyler JackSon 1815–1852 Downing 1815–1852  NEW EDITION

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library of american lanDscape history DaviD Schuyler

Through his many books and in the pages of Schuyler also demonstrates the infl uence of the Horticulturist, the nation’s fi rst journal about Downing’s ideas on the period’s gardens and, landscape gardening, Andrew Jackson Downing more broadly still, analyzes the complications (1815–1852) preached a gospel of taste, promot- of class implicit in Downing’s prescriptions for ing a naturalistic style of landscape design as the American society. The new edition is illustrated “modern” alternative to the classical geometry with more than a hundred drawings, plans, and of the “ancient” gardens of Italy and France. photographs. Together with his longtime collaborator, Alex- ander Jackson Davis, Downing also contrib- PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: uted to an architectural revolution that sought to replace the Classical Revival with the Gothic “The vast amount of visual evidence combines Revival and other romantic styles. Downing cel- with the material and personal history of Down- ebrated this progression not simply as a change ing to make Apostle of Taste a must for scholars of in stylistic preference but as a refl ection of the architectural and landscape history.” nation’s evolution to a more advanced state of —Pennsylvania History civilization. In this compelling biography, issued in a “Schuyler’s excellent study of Downing’s writ- new edition with a new preface, David Schuy- ing and career, complete with excellent illustra- ler explores the origins of the tastemaker’s ideas tions and an extensive, annotated bibliography, in English aesthetic theory and his efforts to will serve as one major starting point for future adapt English principles to American climate studies of Downing.” and republican social institutions. Tracing the —Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American impulse toward a native architectural style, Material Culture

18 John Nolen: Landscape Architect and City Planner R. Bruce Stephenson

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John Nolen (1869–1937) studied economics, planning experiments in England, Europe, and philosophy, and public administration at the the United States during the frst decades of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsyl- twentieth century. vania, where his keen intelligence and remark- In this insightful biography, Bruce Stephen- able administrative abilities were immediately son analyzes the details of Nolen’s experiments, recognized. In 1903, at the age of thirty-four, illuminating the planning principles he used in Nolen enrolled in the new Harvard University laying out communities from Mariemont, Ohio, program in landscape architecture, studying to Venice, Florida. Stephenson’s conclusion dis- under Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Arthur cusses the potential of Nolen’s work as a model Shurcliff. Two years later, Nolen opened his of a sustainable vision relevant to American offce in Harvard Square. civic culture today. Over the course of his career, Nolen and his frm completed more than 400 projects, includ- “The long overdue and defnitive biography of ing comprehensive plans for twenty-nine cities one of America’s most prominent and influen- and twenty-seven new towns, all of them in the tial urbanists. . . . Stephenson effectively posi- United States. Like other reformers of the Pro- tions Nolen between the classical practitioners gressive Era, Nolen looked to Europe for mod- of the nineteenth century and the modern eco- els to structure the rapid urbanization defning logical focus of the twentieth century (which he modern life into more effcient and livable form. helped to establish).” Nolen’s mutually influential relationship with —Keith N. Morgan, coauthor of Community by Raymond Unwin, England’s preeminent garden Design: The Olmsted Office and the Development of city planner, typifed the “Atlantic Crossings” Brookline, Massachusetts that produced a host of intensely interesting

19 Arthur A. Shurcliff: Design, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape Elizabeth Hope Cushing

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In 1928, the landscape architect Arthur A. communities. He designed recreational spaces Shurcliff (1870–1957) began what became one in and around Boston, including signifcant of the most important examples of the American aspects of the Franklin Park Zoo and the Charles Colonial Revival landscape—Colonial Williams- River Esplanade, one of Shurcliff’s major proj- burg, a project that stretched into the 1940s and ects in the region. included town and highway planning as well as In Elizabeth Hope Cushing’s richly illus- residential and institutional gardens. Shurcliff trated biography, we see how Shurcliff’s early graduated from MIT with a degree in engineer- years in Boston, his training, his early design ing in 1894 but was drawn to landscape archi- and planning work, and his experience creating tecture. Because no formal programs existed at an Arts and Crafts–style summer compound in the time, on the advice of Frederick Law Olm- Ipswich led to Colonial Williamsburg, his larg- sted and with the aid of his mentor, Charles Eliot, est and most signifcant contribution to Ameri- he went on to piece together courses at Harvard can landscape architecture. College, the Lawrence Scientifc School, and the Bussey Institute, earning a second B.S. two years “This is a very good piece of work and it will later. He then spent eight years working in the be a singularly important contribution to the Olmsted offce, acquiring a broad and sophisti- literature concerning what I believe is still our cated knowledge of the profession. least understood period of urban landscape Opening his own practice in 1904, Shurcliff architecture.” emphasized his expertise in town planning, —Gary R. Hilderbrand, author of Making a preparing, through the years, plans for towns Landscape of Continuity: The Practice surrounding Boston and for several industrial of Innocenti & Webel

20 Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger G. Reed

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In 1883, Frederick Law Olmsted moved from tecture as his vehicle for development, his son New York City to Brookline, Massachusetts, a and namesake saw Brookline as grounds for Boston suburb that anointed itself the “richest experiment in the new profession of city and town in the world.” For the next half century, regional planning, a feld that he was helping until his son Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. relo- to defne and lead. Little has been published cated to California in 1936, the Olmsted frm on the importance of Brookline as a labora- received more than 150 local commissions, serv- tory and model for the Olmsted frm’s work. ing as the dominant force in the planned devel- This richly illustrated book provides important opment of this community. From Fairsted, the new perspective on the history of planning in Olmsteds’ Brookline home and offce, the frm the United States and illuminates an aspect collaborated with an impressive galaxy of sub- of the Olmsted offce that has not been well urban neighbors who were among the regional understood. and national leaders in the felds of architecture and horticulture, among them Henry Hobson “Chock full of details (with hundreds of repro- Richardson and Charles Sprague Sargent. duced photos and plans) and meticulously Through plans for boulevards and parkways, researched, the book exposes the multiple webs residential subdivisions, institutional commis- of influence; wealth, social hierarchy, design sions, and private gardens, the Olmsted frm genius and high-minded ideals that came carefully guided the development of the town, as together to guide the development of Brookline they designed cities and suburbs across America. at a time when booming population and street- Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. and Jr. and their asso- cars brought rapid change. The authors trace the ciates represented a new cohort of professionals relationships among the leading trend-setters in who worked well in tandem with the wealthy, architecture, municipal governance, landscape ensuring both the visual quality and the social design, engineering and horticulture as they hierarchy of the community. converge in Brookline at the turn of the 19th While Olmsted Sr. used landscape archi- century.” —Linda Pehlke, Brookline Perspective

21 A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era Robin Karson

Photographs by Carol Betsch

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In the early twentieth century, new fortunes homegrown antecedents. And we are that much made it possible for wealthy Americans to com- richer for it.” —The American Gardener mission country estates as a means of aggran- dizing social status. These private havens also “Karson’s magisterial book shows the magni- offered their owners respite from crowded cities tude of the Country Place Era landscape heri- and a way to preserve and celebrate places of tage and confrms its importance as a major distinctive landscape beauty. The commissions chapter in the history of American landscape provided burgeoning numbers of landscape design.” —Site/Lines architects with opportunities to experiment with stylistic influences derived from Beaux- “The most important book on American gar- Arts, Arts and Crafts, and even Asian principles. dens for at least a decade, this giant tome spans Analyzing these designs in context with the frst 40 years of the 20th century. . . . Super- one another and against the backdrop of the lative black-and-white photographs by Carol professional and cultural currents that shaped Betsch, taken in the 1990s, already have a clas- larger projects, Robin Karson creates a richly sic look about them.” —London Telegraph comprehensive picture of the artistic achieve- ments of the period. Striking black-and-white “Altogether, text, visuals, and format work to photographs by Carol Betsch capture the spirit produce a signifcant and beautiful book. . . . of these country place landscapes today, and Landscape historians will devour what’s here; hundreds of drawings, plans, and period photo- others should fnd inspiration in planting graphs illuminate their histories. schemes, design details, scale relationships, and photography. This is a feast to be savored and “Yet again Robin Karson has hit the ball out digested slowly, over time.” of the park. . . . In this book, as in her previ- —Landscape Architecture ous works, Karson redirects us toward our own

22 A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens Susan L. Klaus

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Winner, New York City Book Award for Landscape History

Conceived as an experiment that would apply Drawing on his father’s visionary ideas but the new “science” of city planning to a subur- developing his own perspective, the younger ban setting, Forest Hills Gardens was created by Olmsted redefned planning for the modern era the Russell Sage Foundation to provide housing and became one of the founders of the profes- for middle-class commuters as an alternative sion of city planning in the United States. to cramped flats in New York City. Although it has long been recognized as one of the most “The scholarship in this work is exceptionally influential planned communities in the United thorough. . . . A Modern Arcadia will make a sig- States, this is the frst time Forest Hills Gardens nifcant contribution to the felds of landscape has been the subject of a book. and planning history.” Susan L. Klaus’s fully illustrated history —Cynthia Zaitzevsky, author of Frederick Law chronicles the creation of the 142-acre devel- Olmsted and the Boston Park System opment from its inception in 1909 through its frst two decades, offering critical insights into “A Modern Arcadia illuminates the fascinat- American planning history, landscape architec- ing intersection of social and aesthetic reform ture, and the social and economic forces that movements in the Progressive Era, as well as the shaped housing in the Progressive Era. Klaus early career of a prolifc and influential planner focuses particularly on the creative genius of and landscape architect.” Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., who served as plan- —David Glassberg, author of Sense of History: ner and landscape architect for the project. The Place of the Past in American Life

23 Graceland Cemetery: A Design History Christopher Vernon

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Graceland Cemetery in Chicago was founded in landscape was developed over many genera- 1860 and developed over several decades by a tions, casting new light on the careers of several series of landscape gardeners whose reputations important landscape architects. today fgure among the most important in the feld. An exemplar of the rural cemetery type, “Vernon’s book places this important work of Graceland was Chicago’s answer to its eastern landscape architecture within the context of counterparts, Mount Auburn in Cambridge and Chicago’s growth as a commercial epicenter, Laurel Hill in Philadelphia. Although the initial gracefully untangling the threads of Graceland’s layout of the cemetery was the work of Wil- evolving design which, by the turn of the nine- liam Saunders, designer of Laurel Hill, the cem- teenth century, had become the impetus for the etery is most often associated with a later style Midwest’s frst regional movement in landscape of design that featured exclusive use of native architecture: the Prairie School.” plants. Graceland was considered one of the —William H. Tishler, editor of most perfect expressions of this design approach, Midwestern Landscape Design hailed as the most “modern” cemetery in exis- tence and “the admiration of the world.” In this “Indeed, the research that grounds Graceland book, Christopher Vernon carefully recovers the Cemetery: A Design History is impeccable, as evi- history of Graceland and the many hands that denced by the range of contemporary historic helped to shape its influential layout. and archival sources consulted. Consequently, Known as the “Cemetery of Architects” even the notes make interesting reading (at because so many notable ones are buried there, least for landscape history geeks) with nugget Graceland remains a heavily visited attraction. after nugget of supplemental information and This richly illustrated book helps readers under- intriguing detail.” —Landscape Journal stand how the influential and still beautiful

24 The Native Landscape Reader Edited by Robert E. Grese

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In this volume Robert E. Grese gathers together rience of discovery. His introduction provides writings on nature-based landscape design and perspective on the context of these writings conservation by some of the country’s most sig- and the principles they espouse, and his conclu- nifcant practitioners, horticulturists, botanists, sion illuminates their relevance today with the and conservationists of the late nineteenth and emerging emphasis on sustainable design. This early twentieth centuries. Written with a strong collection will appeal to general readers inter- conservation ethic, these essays often originally ested in the issues of sustainability, horticulture appeared in obscure, short-lived publications and gardening, and landscape design and pres- and are diffcult to locate today, comprising a ervation, as well as to historians, practitioners, rich but hidden literature. and specialists. Over many years of pioneering research into the work of Jens Jensen, O. C. Simonds, “The relevance of these writings to the current and other early landscape architects who advo- issues of biodiversity, native plants, and sus- cated for the use of native plants and conser- tainability cannot be overemphasized. . . . This vation, Grese encountered and began collecting extensive collection is a valuable addition to these pieces. With this volume, he offers readers landscape scholarship and practice.” his trove. Purposely avoiding literature that is —Robert L. Ryan, coauthor of With People in widely available, Grese shares as well his expe- Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature

25 Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma Ethan Carr

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Winner, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

In the years following World War II, Americans ing club into a national advocacy organization. visited the national parks in unprecedented But Mission 66 was also the last system-wide, numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar planned development campaign to accommo- levels and park conditions steadily declined. date increased numbers of automotive tourists. To address the problem, in 1956 a ten-year Whatever our judgment of Mission 66, we still billion-dollar initiative titled “Mission 66” was use the roads, visitor centers, and other facilities launched, timed to be completed in 1966, the the program built. Environmental and park his- fftieth anniversary of the National Park Ser- torians, architectural and landscape historians, vice. The program covered more than one hun- and all who care about our national parks will dred visitor centers (a building type invented by enjoy this copiously illustrated history of a criti- Mission 66 planners), expanded campgrounds, cal period in the development of the national innumerable comfort stations and other pub- park system. lic facilities, new and wider roads, parking lots, maintenance buildings, and hundreds of “This is an intelligent and level-headed look at employee residences. To a signifcant degree, the great promise and the great problems asso- the national park system and the National Park ciated with the Park Service’s Mission 66 pro- Service as we know them today are products of gram. Embedded in it—and in this fascinating the Mission 66 era. book as well—is the age-old dilemma that has Mission 66 was controversial at the time, plagued our National Parks since their incep- and it continues to incite debate over the policies tion, namely, how to make them accessible to it represented. Hastening the advent of the mod- everyone while at the same time saving them ern environmental movement, it transformed from those who too often end up ‘loving them the Sierra Club from a regional mountaineer- to death.’ ” —Ken Burns, flmmaker

26 Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Gardenmaker’s Life, 1885–1971 Robin Karson

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For sixty years, Fletcher Steele practiced land- account of one of America’s greatest modern scape architecture as a fne art, designing nearly garden designers as well as an inspiring refer- seven hundred gardens, from Boston to Detroit, ence of garden-making as a fne art.” from North Carolina to Canada. Often brilliant, —Public Garden always original, Steele’s work is considered by many to constitute the essential link between “This is a book to be savored, to be read and re- nineteenth-century Beaux-Arts formalism and read for enjoyment and consulted repeatedly for modern landscape design. inspiration. The text is uncommonly readable, the descriptions of the gardens and their maker “A book to give for Christmas, or as the grandest consistently perceptive and insightful. . . . [An] of house presents; it’s a book to keep as well. . . . exceptional volume.” —Pacific Horticulture [Karson] has written a wonderful read and, in doing so, has revived an entire era in all its “Makes available to students and teachers of detail. Intelligent, theatrical, infuriating, amus- landscape design a wealth of material: plans, ing—and loveable—Steele struts off the page, drawings, photographs, and correspondence, giving life to his own work.” —Garden Design as well as interviews with Steele’s family, his clients and their family members, offce staff “Karson has done a magnifcent job in inte- and associates, and collaborators in architec- grating carefully chosen archival drawings ture, gardening, art, and sculpture. Moreover, and pictures with contemporary photographs the text places Steele’s gardens in the context of of many gardens. Planting plans and plant lists major threads of American socioeconomic his- are offered as additional information for many tory and of the development of the young pro- of the gardens with a comprehensive list of cli- fession of landscape architecture.” ents. We are given simultaneously a revealing —Landscape Journal

27 Design in the Little Garden Fletcher Steele

Reprint of the 1924 edition, with a new introduction by Robin Karson

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Among the many books published about gar- mending several innovative strategies for subur- den design, few manage to get at so many vital ban house design. aspects of the topic so pungently as Fletcher Steele organized his book for clarity and Steele’s Design in the Little Garden. First published ease of use. Brief chapters focus on both process in 1924, and reissued here with a new introduc- (“Buying Land”) and features (“The Flower Gar- tion by Robin Karson, the book captures the den,” “Rock, Wild, and Wall Gardens,” “Grading, sense of possibility that Steele and his landscape Steps, Walks,” “Toolhouse, Cold Frames,” etc.). architectural colleagues felt as the nation’s pop- In the course of guiding an imaginary couple ulation swelled and the middle class spilled out through the exercise of buying a new home and of the cities into new suburbs. designing, planting, and maintaining the sur- One of the foremost landscape designers of rounding yard, he gives life to the guiding prin- the early twentieth century, Steele published ciples of cohesion and utility. frequently in both popular and professional Written in an engaging voice, with a sharp magazines, on topics that ranged from horti- wit sometimes tempered by affectionate exas- culture to conservation, civic improvement, peration, Design in the Little Garden provides a modernism, and space composition. In this slim concise summary of Steele’s design principles volume, he tackles the challenges of designing and a delightful read for anyone interested in the residential landscape, while also addressing garden design at any scale. architectural and planning issues and recom-

28 Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery Blanche M. G. Linden

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Originally published in 1989, Blanche Linden’s many other aspects of nineteenth-century Amer- Silent City on a Hill offers an insightful inquiry into ican culture. . . . Each of the eleven chapters— the intellectual and cultural origins of Mount especially the seven or eight that separate out Auburn Cemetery, the frst landscape in the for consideration specifc strands of intellectual United States to be designed in the Picturesque and aesthetic influence, such as that of the Eng- style. Inspired by developments in England and lish garden, the French ‘cult of ancestors,’ or France and founded in 1831, Mount Auburn the American sensibility to melancholy—could became the prototype for the “rural cemetery” stand on its own as an interesting study.” movement and was an important precursor of —New England Quarterly many of America’s public parks, beginning with New York City’s Central Park. This new edition “No one in the future will be able to write about has been completely redesigned in a larger for- nineteenth-century cemeteries in the United mat, with new photographs and a new epilogue States without frst studying this book. . . . Silent that carries the story forward into the twentieth City on a Hill is a lavishly satisfying scholarly century. book.” —Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians PRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL EDITION:

“In illuminating the furthest reaches of Mount Auburn’s meaning, the author also sheds light on

29 Henry Shaw’s Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park Carol Grove

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At the age of eighteen, Henry Shaw (1800–1889) Carol Grove chronicles Shaw’s remark- left his home in Sheffeld, England, to import able story, from his early love of plants to his manufactured goods from St. Louis on the Mis- rising social conscience and his determined sissippi and Missouri Rivers. Two decades of quest to create a place of unsurpassed beauty fnancial success allowed him to retire and take and distinction that would educate and thereby up more genteel pursuits. In 1840, he began improve Americans. Beautifully illustrated with nearly ten years of travel, which exposed him to contemporary and historical photographs, this museums and botanical gardens in Europe, Asia volume offers an insightful cultural history of Minor, and Russia. He vowed to create a similar Shaw’s landscapes, among the most important cultural enterprise in St. Louis. examples of the gardenesque in America. Shaw’s Garden (now the Missouri Botanical Garden) opened in 1859 to legions of enthusi- “This study by Carol Grove signifcantly advances astic visitors. Over the next thirty years, Shaw our understanding of the background of Tower expanded the plantings, drawing on species Grove Park and the Missouri Botanical Garden. introduced by the era’s great plant hunters. In Her research has marshaled known sources and 1867, he began work on Tower Grove Park on also made some new connections that help to 276 acres adjacent to the garden, designing in illuminate this period in the history of Ameri- a gardenesque method that emphasized plants can landscape design through the prism of one as specimens, in keeping with his educational visionary philanthropist’s experiences.” mission. —John Karel, Director, Tower Grove Park

30 A World of Her Own Making: Katharine Smith Reynolds and the Landscape of Reynolda Catherine Howett

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Only a few years after marrying tobacco magnate Thomas W. Sears, a highly regarded Philadel- R. J. Reynolds, young Katharine Smith Reyn- phia-based landscape architect. The estate even- olds (1880–1924) began to plan a new home for tually expanded to cover more than 1,000 acres. her family. Not many young women of the day The process of planning Reynolda paralleled sim- found themselves with almost unlimited wealth ilar efforts in other parts of the United States, as to construct their dream home, but Katharine’s new towns, parks, campuses, and country estates sense of purpose for her vast resources was even were laid out during the century’s frst decades. more unusual. She envisioned the founding Catherine Howett’s study analyzes the sin- of a model community that would emphasize gular convergence of influences that occurred health, modern technology, mixed-crop scien- in the imagination of a highly unusual woman. tifc farming, education, and rural beauty. The book provides welcome insight into the In 1904, when Katharine embarked on her culture of the New South and into a richly estate project in Winston (now Winston-Salem), inventive period in the history of American North Carolina, the South was still feeling the landscape architecture. effects of the Civil War and a century of sin- gle-crop farming. After conducting exhaustive “Brilliantly written—uplifting and riveting— research, which included wide-ranging read- this books brings out of obscurity a ‘new woman’ ing in agricultural journals and trips to other of the South, who dedicated her brief life to the American estates and model farms, she began creation of a place called Reynolda. . . . Read- to lay out her property, Reynolda. Her plan was ers, especially women, will fnd inspiration in inspired, in part, by the rural landscapes of Eng- its pages.” land that had captured the imagination of Fred- —Barbara B. Millhouse, author of American erick Law Olmsted. Originals and president, Reynolda House Beginning in 1915, Katharine was aided by Museum of American Art

31 Midwestern Landscape Architecture Edited by William H. Tishler

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At the turn of the twentieth century, many Law Olmsted, Olmsted Brothers, O. C. Simonds, landscape architects developed approaches to H. W. S. Cleveland, Warren H. Manning, Elbert design that celebrated the native midwestern Peets, and Annette Hoyt Flanders. Midwestern landscape. In this illustrated volume, thirteen Landscape Architecture also details the contribu- historians have contributed essays that illumi- tions of those who championed conservation nate their biographies and the important design and ecological awareness in an effort to promote and conservation contributions made by these scenic resources, such as Jens Jensen, Wilhelm innovators. Miller, and Genevieve Gillette. Parks, cemeteries, estates, and recreation areas throughout the region were created by “Tishler has done a tremendous service to his individuals intrigued by the prairies, lakes, and profession and to the general public by assem- native plants of the Midwest: Adolph Strauch bling many of the best landscape historians in introduced the revolutionary “lawn plan” at North America as contributors to Midwestern Cincinnati’s Spring Grove Cemetery; William Landscape Architecture. They make history come Le Baron Jenney created the West Parks in Chi- to life.” cago as an armature of order and respite from —Robert Scarfo, Washington State University the burgeoning industrial city; George Kessler’s image of the City Beautiful combined European “For those interested in the history of the pro- and American influences in Dallas, Houston, fession this is a ‘must have.’” Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver, Cincinnati, Indi- —William J. Grundmann, Council of Educa- anapolis, and elsewhere. Other major design tors in Landscape Architecture practitioners in this collection include Frederick

32 Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England Frederick Law Olmsted

Reprint of the 1852 edition, with a new introduction by Charles C. McLaughlin

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Before he ever dreamed of becoming a landscape “In this book we get not only a young Ameri- architect, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) can’s vivid impressions of mid-nineteenth- visited southern England and Wales during century England, but also the frst glimmers a month-long walking tour. A gifted writer, of Frederick Law Olmsted the observant jour- he recorded his impressions of the trip in this nalist and future landscape designer. Charles richly detailed volume, which has long been out McLaughlin’s erudite introduction usefully puts of print. all this in the proper perspective.” The new introduction clarifes the links —Witold Rybczynski, author of A Clearing in between Olmsted’s developing Picturesque aes- the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and thetic, social conscience, and reformer’s passion America in the Nineteenth Century for change. Charles C. McLaughlin persuasively argues that Olmsted came to adapt many of the “It is fascinating to see Olmsted here absorbing features of the cultivated English countryside— and recording frsthand impressions of Eng- frst seen on this trip—in designed landscapes land’s rapidly changing countryside and grow- such as New York’s Central Park. ing industrial cities. McLaughlin’s gracefully This edition provides extensive annotations erudite introduction to this timely republication to the original text, furnishing background provides a vivid portrait of a young mid-nine- and context to the people and places Olmsted teenth-century traveler.” encountered during his journey. McLaughlin’s —Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Foundation notes are based on his own trips through Eng- for Landscape Studies land, undertaken over two decades to retrace the author’s original route.

33 The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt, and Ellen Biddle Shipman Robin Karson

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Winner, American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award

Gwinn, one of the best-preserved estates of the a richly detailed and dramatically illustrated Country Place Era, was originally the home of account of the lakeside estate’s development. Cleveland industrialist William Mather. It has By illuminating the battle between formal and survived as an important American work of art informal design principles in creating Gwinn, that today tells a story about early twentieth- Karson reveals the larger picture of emerging century landscape style, economics, and social style in American landscape design. history. Three innovative landscape architects collab- “Readers who love landscape and garden his- orated on the project for more than two decades: tory will feel themselves transported, as if by a Charles A. Platt, the architect who adapted the tale of great adventure.” Italian villa to an American setting; Warren H. —Journal of the New England Garden History Society Manning, the well-known landscape architect, planner, and designer of parks in several states; “Karson’s examination is thorough and schol- and Ellen Biddle Shipman, who brought a new arly . . . [including} penetrating and illumi- American sensibility to the art of garden design. nating essays. . . . This is a rich period . . . and From a previously unpublished archive of Karson provides welcome new insight.” documents and images, Robin Karson presents —Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

34 ASLA CENTENNIAL REPRINT SERIES

Landscape for Living Garret Eckbo

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Garrett Eckbo (1910–1996) was one of the tional projects, group housing from his graduate most highly respected and influential Ameri- years, work for the Farm Security Administra- can modernist landscape architects. He worked tion, and projects by the frm of Eckbo, Royston assiduously to overthrow the Beaux-Arts system & Williams. of landscape design and to develop an approach David C. Streatfeld’s introduction chroni- that would address the social and economic cles Eckbo’s life to 1950, from his lonely child- challenges of the modern world. Eckbo rejected hood through his rebellious years at Harvard the centrality of nature as a psychological and and well into his distinguished early career as a spiritual source of inspiration, criticizing the landscape designer, prolifc author, and commit- “palliative” introduction of nature into cities ted social activist, interpreting Eckbo’s densely in parks designed by Olmsted and other nine- written text as a reflection of this history. teenth-century landscape architects and argu- ing instead for a scientifc method that would “David Streatfeld has contributed both new provide a model for a new approach to land- knowledge and insightful analysis to our appre- scape design entirely free of preconceptions. ciation of the 1950 modernist manifesto through Deliberately experimental, Eckbo’s designs which Garrett Eckbo sought to persuade Ameri- were centered on the garden, which he believed can landscape architects, their clients, and the was the prototype for all landscape design. His broader public that a new era—radically trans- built work was influenced by modernist Euro- formed by science, technology, and the promise pean architecture, modern art, and vernacular of social change—demanded more than formu- landscape traditions. laic historic styles and soothing scenery in its Published in 1950, Landscape for Living pre- designed landscapes. The revolutionary temper sents a synthesis of Eckbo’s thinking and pro- and optimism of this classic work seem more fessional work and sets forth his theoretical than ever timely and inspiring.” approach to achieving the “total landscape.” —Catherine Howett, Professor Emerita, Illustrations throughout the book feature his University of Georgia own designs for gardens, parks, and institu-

35 New Towns for Old John Nolen

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John Nolen (1869–1937) was a pioneer in the The new edition of New Towns for Old con- development of professional town and city plan- tains additional plans and illustrations, a new ning in the United States. Nolen’s comprehen- index, and a new introductory essay by Charles sive approach merged the social, economic, and D. Warren, which presents biographical and physical aspects of planning while emphasizing, historical context that illuminates the diverse, in the author’s words, “versatility, special knowl- productive career of this nationally signifcant edge, and cooperation.” Between 1905 and 1937, practitioner. Perhaps most signifcantly, it fea- Nolen’s frm, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tures Nolen’s project list, which has never before completed more than 350 commissions through- been published. out the United States. Among the best known of these is Mariemont, Ohio, whose development “Early in the last century, John Nolen planned Nolen directed from the ground up. model towns, garden suburbs, and industrial Rare and long out of print, New Towns for cities, whose refnement and design excellence Old (1927) is still of great interest to planners remain impressive to this day. In New Towns for and urban historians. The well-illustrated study Old, Nolen explained how it was done. Thought- contains an overview of the development of ful, wise, and still inspirational.” American urbanism and a concise discussion of —Witold Rybczynski, author of A Clearing in Nolen’s ideas for the improvement of towns and the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and cities. Individual chapters examine a variety of America in the Nineteenth Century towns planned by Nolen including Mariemont, Ohio; Kingsport, Tennessee; and Kistler, Penn- “Warren, a New York City–based architect, pro- sylvania, as well as the new suburbs of Union vides incredible insights into the evolution of Park Gardens in Wilmington, Delaware, and Nolen’s career. . . . We would all beneft from Myers Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. The re- reading this book, especially to brush up on planned towns of Cohasset and Walpole, Massa- the planning techniques and to realize Nolen’s chusetts, are also featured. The forward-looking achievements in civic improvement.” fnal chapter includes material on Venice, Flor- —New Urban Review ida, one of Nolen’s most ambitious projects.

36 Landscape-Gardening O. C. Simonds

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Ossian Cole Simonds (1855–1931) was one of he saw as alarming changes in the American the country’s earliest and most important land- landscape. Through it, he hoped to teach both scape architects, the progenitor of the “middle- professional and general audiences how to read western movement” of landscape design. First the natural landscape, and to respect and pro- published in 1920, Landscape-Gardening presents tect its beauty while creating ever more harmo- Simonds’s carefully conceived and still timely nious places in which to live. ideas about an approach to landscape design in This reprint edition includes a new introduc- which nature is both partner and model. tion by Robert E. Grese, which places Simonds’s Many of Simonds’s ideas were remark- gracefully written text in historical perspective, ably prescient. He encouraged the use of native elucidating many of the broad themes of the plants; he called for the protection of land for profession’s early years. aesthetic as well as utilitarian reasons; he championed interconnected park and boule- “With the increasing interest in ecological resto- vard systems or “greenways”; he encouraged the ration, sustainable design, and the use of native planting of “nature gardens”; and he proposed plants for landscape and gardens alike, it is par- thoughtful solutions to the increasingly ragged ticularly timely to have a new edition of this edges of early twentieth-century cities, warning seminal volume by O. C. Simonds.” of sprawl long before the word was invented. —Robert Cook, Arnold Arboretum Simonds wrote his book in response to what

37 Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening Robert Morris Copeland

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Robert Morris Copeland (1830–1874) was one neering methods. Handsomely illustrated with of a small number of American landscape prac- plates and woodcuts, the book sold through six titioners whose written and built work helped editions. Copeland organized the book into an establish the foundations for city planning and agricultural year that provided practical and integrated park systems. As did his colleagues aesthetic advice on a month-by-month basis, Frederick Law Olmsted and Horace Cleveland, according to area. He dedicated the book “to all Copeland merged many of the principles of lovers of nature and to all engaged in cultivat- scientifc farming with landscape gardening. ing and adorning the earth,” suggesting that a Although he died at a relatively young age, well-managed farm “can expand the mind and his accomplishments were substantial. He left ennoble the soul.” behind several important designs for cemeter- A new introduction by William H. Tishler ies, estates, suburbs, communities, and parks analyzes the importance of the book to mid- throughout New England, New York, and nineteenth-century America and chronicles Pennsylvania. Copeland’s other important achievements, In 1859, Copeland published Country Life, including his early concept for a metropoli- which quickly became a bible of scientifc farm- tan park system for Boston that foreshadowed ing and landscape gardening, as it incorporated Charles Eliot’s efforts by many years. the latest agricultural practices with new engi-

38 The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening Wilhelm Miller

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In 1915, Wilhelm Miller (1869–1938), an influ- eigners and Artifcial Varieties!” “Restore the ential author and editor, published The Prairie Native Vegetation!”—leave little doubt about his Spirit in Landscape Gardening, a profusely illus- aesthetic position. trated book that championed the “prairie style” Christopher Vernon’s new introduction links of landscape gardening. It was the frst book to the prairie style to Wright and other architects address the question of a truly American style of of the Progressive Era, arguing that Wright’s use landscape design and remains one of the most of prairie landscape elements actually preceded signifcant early treatises on that topic. that by Jensen, Simonds, and their peers. Ver- This handsome volume features several non shows how prairie imagery provided design projects by Jens Jensen, a Danish immigrant ideas for some and also provided a label—prai- whose ecologically based, conservation-oriented rie style—that helped promote naturalistic work approach to park and residential design had a generally. Architects, landscape architects, and strong impact in Chicago and formed the foun- garden enthusiasts will be intrigued by Vernon’s dation of the stylistic school Miller was promot- insights and inspired by Miller’s impassioned ing. The book also features photographs of O. C. call to celebrate, replicate, and conserve the Simonds’s designs for Chicago’s Graceland Cem- midwestern landscape. etery and midwestern landscapes by Walter Bur- ley Griffn, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Warren H. “Miller’s book provides a still-practical hand- Manning, among others. Before-and-after images book for Midwestern gardens that lends a strong vividly demonstrate Miller’s taste for abundant historical basis for linking such work today with use of hardy native plants in landscape design. its precedent.” His emphatic captions—”Away with Gaudy For- —Journal of the New England Garden History Society

39 The Art of Landscape Architecture Samuel Parsons Jr.

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Samuel Parsons Jr. (1844–1923) was one of the was an affectionate summing up of the theo- most well known names in the feld of land- ries and built work that had inspired America’s scape design in the early twentieth century. A frst generation of landscape architects. Parsons protégé of Calvert Vaux, Parsons worked with illustrated his book with photographs depicting the architect until Vaux’s death in 1895. As a wide range of landscapes, including several superintendent of planting in Central Park and of the park designed by the German landscape landscape architect to the City of New York gardener Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. for nearly thirty years, Parsons was, until his A new introduction by Francis R. Kowsky resignation in 1911, the last direct link in the explores Parsons’s contributions to the nascent city to the ideals of Vaux and Frederick Law profession of landscape architecture, his cham- Olmsted. pioning of the work of Pückler-Muskau, his The most widely read of Parsons’s several defense of Olmsted and Vaux’s vision for Central books, The Art of Landscape Architecture (1915) Park, and his own successful landscape designs.

40 Landscape Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West; with an Essay on Forest Planting on the Great Plains H. W. S. Cleveland

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An important force in nineteenth-century Amer- prehensive scope for the new profession of land- ican landscape architecture, H. W. S. Cleveland scape architecture in its formative period. (1814–1900) has long been overshadowed by A new introduction to the text provides a Frederick Law Olmsted, with whom he worked historical backdrop to Cleveland’s concern that briefly at Prospect Park. Cleveland’s “organic” ill-considered layouts for communities along the design approach was frst expressed in 1855 at rapidly developing rail lines of the Midwest and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massa- Great Plains would negatively affect what he chusetts, where he and Robert Morris Copeland saw as the future of American civilization. developed a landscape aesthetic based chiefly on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Landscape “The reprint and its perceptive introduction Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West, pub- should help landscape historians give Cleve- lished in 1873, summarizes Cleveland’s organic land the recognition he rightly deserves as one approach and its application at all scales of design of America’s foremost pioneering landscape and planning. The book is especially signifcant architects.” as the frst attempt to defne and develop a com- —Journal of the New England Garden History Society

41 The Spirit of the Garden Martha Brookes Hutcheson

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Martha Brookes Hutcheson (1871–1959) was zeal. Davidson examines the circumstances of one of the frst American women landscape Hutcheson’s entry into MIT in 1900 and her architects to receive professional training. Like subsequent career until her marriage at age many of her female colleagues, she specialized forty, when she retired from active practice and in garden design, the topic of her acclaimed turned to writing and lecturing. book, The Spirit of the Garden. When frst pub- Among the many beautiful photographs lished in 1923, the volume was both a critical illustrating Hutcheson’s designs are examples and a commercial success, widely praised for from Maudslay State Park in Newburyport, its articulation of the architectural principles Massachusetts; the Longfellow National Historic of garden design. “Every garden lover,” advised Site in Cambridge; and Bamboo Brook Conser- one contemporary reviewer, “should have it on vation Center in Gladstone, New Jersey—all of a most convenient table.” which are now open to the public. In an insightful new introduction, Rebecca Warren Davidson explores Hutcheson’s motives “A book remarkable for its concise and practical for becoming a landscape architect. In David- suggestions and which is at the same time bril- son’s view, Hutcheson considered fne landscape liant and entertainingly written.” design an instrument of social change and was —Architectural Record, 1923 inspired to write her book by a Progressive Era

42 Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect Charles W. Eliot

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One of the most important fgures in Ameri- offers a critical reading of Eliot’s life and con- can landscape history was Charles Eliot, whose tributions to the felds of landscape architec- story is told in this richly detailed biography. It ture and regional planning. Filling in the gaps was written by his father, the president of Har- left by Eliot’s father, he offers new insights into vard College, in 1902, a few years after Eliot’s an important chapter in American landscape death at age thirty-eight from spinal meningitis. history. Like his colleague and partner Frederick This edition includes 110 illustrations and Law Olmsted, the younger Eliot was a fgure two large fold-out maps that show the distribu- of enormous talent and energy. He emerges tion of public open spaces in metropolitan Bos- from his father’s text as a brilliant though mel- ton in 1892 and 1901. ancholy young man with a passion for travel, history, and the natural landscape. Included “The book is a classic, the expression of endur- are passages from Eliot’s travel writing, pro- ing landscape values despite nearly a century fessional correspondence, and public reports, of evolutionary changes in the profession. . . . which bear witness to the range of his interests [Morgan’s is] a fne essay, scrupulously fair and and intellect. illuminating.” In a new introduction, Keith N. Morgan —Journal of the New England Garden History Society

43 Book of Landscape Gardening Frank A. Waugh

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In 1903, Frank Albert Waugh (1869–1943) “Landscape gardening is eminently a fne art,” founded an undergraduate program in “land- Waugh began each edition of the popular text scape gardening” at Massachusetts Agricultural that became a standard in professional practice. College, only the second such program in the In the chapters that follow, he covers several nation. The profession he helped to pioneer is general principles of design and discusses three now known as landscape architecture, and the basic styles—the natural, the architectural, and college has become the University of Massachu- the picturesque. setts Amherst. Waugh, who had moved to New The book achieved its broad appeal by strik- England in 1895 from his native Midwest, was ing a balance between well-known period one of the frst practitioners to conceive of a his- examples and solutions that could be achieved tory of American landscape architecture. He by the professional designer, highway engineer, was a renowned teacher and horticulturalist as estate gardener, or average homeowner. Photo- well as a prolifc writer on topics ranging from graphs, many of them taken by Waugh, depict design to pomology, a talented printmaker, far-ranging landscapes from Europe and Japan photographer, and flutist. Although his writ- to diverse regions of the United States. Several ings were rooted in the principles of naturalistic plant lists and an annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century landscape gardening, his landscape design sources accompany the text. theories promoted modern applications. In this edition, a new introduction by Linda The most comprehensive of Waugh’s several Flint McClelland examines Waugh’s contribu- published books, and widely considered a classic tions to landscape architecture during a period in the feld, Book of Landscape Gardening was frst of great technological change, growing cultural published in 1899 and revised several times. sophistication, and economic prosperity.

44 AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

SARAH ALLABACK, senior manuscript editor tor of graphic arts in Rare Books and Special at LALH, is author of The First American Women Collections at Princeton University, Davidson is Architects and coeditor of the LALH Masters of a lecturer in art history at Ithaca College. Modern Landscape Design series. ROBERT E. GRESE is professor of landscape JANE ROY BROWN, former director of edu- architecture at the University of Michigan, cational outreach at LALH, is coauthor of One where he serves as director of the Matthei Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place. Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, and author of Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and DEAN CARDASIS, FASLA, retired profes- Gardens. Grese is particularly interested in the sor of landscape architecture at Rutgers, the restoration and management of urban wilds and State University of New Jersey, is director of the role such lands can play in connecting chil- the James Rose Center for Landscape Architec- dren and families with nature. He was featured tural Research and Design in Ridgewood, New as the LALH Preservation Hero in the 2010 issue Jersey. of VIEW.

ETHAN CARR, FASLA, is professor of landscape CAROL GROVE, adjunct assistant professor of architecture at the University of Massachusetts art history and archaeology at the University of Amherst and an international authority on Missouri–Columbia, is author of Henry Shaw’s America’s public landscapes. He is author of Wil- Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden derness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the and Tower Grove Park (LALH, 2005). National Park Service and Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma, lead editor of Pub- KENNETH I. HELPHAND, FASLA, is professor lic Nature: Scenery, History, and Park Design, editor emeritus of landscape architecture at the Uni- of volume 8 of the Papers of Frederick Law Olm- versity of Oregon, where he has taught courses sted, and series editor of Designing the American in landscape history, theory, and design since Park (LALH). 1974. He is the author of four previous books and numerous articles. An Honorary Member of KELLY COMRAS, FASLA, is principal land- the Israel Association of Landscape Architects, scape architect in the frm KCLA in Pacifc Pali- Helphand is a former editor of Landscape Journal sades, California. and chair of the Senior Fellows at Dumbarton Oaks. ELIZABETH HOPE CUSHING is a landscape his- torian. In addition to writing cultural landscape CATHERINE HOWETT, FASLA, is profes- history reports for the Taft Art Museum, Cincin- sor emerita in the College of Environment and nati, the National Park Service, the Department Design at the University of Georgia. She has also of Conservation and Recreation of the Common- edited, written, or contributed to several previ- wealth of Massachusetts, and other institutions ous books, including The Gardening Book of James and agencies, she has contributed essays to Pio- L. Hunter: A Southern Planter; Land of Our Own: 250 neers of American Landscape Design; Design with Cul- Years of Landscape and Gardening Tradition in Geor- ture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage; Shaping gia, 1733–1983; Residential Work of the Olmsted Firm the American Landscape; and Drawing Toward Home. in Georgia, 1893–1937; and Abstracting the Land- Cushing is currently working on a biography of scape: The Artistry of Landscape Architect A. E. Bye. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. ROBIN KARSON, Hon. ASLA, is a landscape REBECCA WARREN DAVIDSON is an architec- historian and the founder and executive direc- tural and landscape historian. Formerly a cura- tor of LALH. She has published extensively on

45 American landscape architectural history and City, is coauthor, with Carol Grove, of Houses of design, including several books and numerous Missouri, 1870–1940. articles and essays, and is coeditor of Pioneers of American Landscape Design. Her books have KEITH N. MORGAN, retired professor of art received two Honor Awards from the ASLA, an history and director of architectural studies at American Horticultural Society Book Award, Boston University, is author of Shaping a New and a J. B. Jackson Award. American Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt and coauthor of Boston Architec- SUSAN L. KLAUS is an independent scholar ture, 1975–1990. He is also editor and principal with particular interest in urban and landscape author of Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan history. She has published numerous articles Boston and architecture editor for The Encyclope- on Olmsted Jr. and the work of the Olmsted dia of New England. frm. DANIEL J. NADENICEK is dean of the College FRANCIS R. KOWSKY is State University of of Environment and Design and holds the Con- New York Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts stance Knowles Draper Chair in Environmental emeritus at Buffalo State College, SUNY, Buf- Design at the University of Georgia. His other falo, and author of Country, Park, and City: The publications include more than ninety articles, Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux. reviews, reports, and proceedings in the areas of historic preservation, landscape history, and BLANCHE M. G. LINDEN (1946–2014) was urban design. Nadenicek serves as coeditor of an independent scholar with special interest Landscape Journal and is currently working on a in landscape, architectural, and urban history. forthcoming LALH book about the conservation Her numerous publications in women’s studies, work of Frederick Billings, fnancier and presi- visual and material culture, and American his- dent of the Northern Pacifc Railway. tory include Spring Grove: Celebrating 150 Years. LANCE M. NECKAR, professor of landscape LINDA FLINT McCLELLAND is a historian for architecture at the College of Architecture and the National Park Service and author of Building Landscape Architecture, University of Minne- the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and sota, Twin Cities, has received numerous awards Construction. for excellence in teaching.

CHARLES C. McLAUGHLIN (1929–2005) was WILLIAM E. O’BRIEN is associate profes- professor of history at American University and sor of environmental studies at the Harriet L. founding editor of The Papers of Frederick Law Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic Uni- Olmsted. versity. His work on environment and race has appeared in journals including Historical Geogra- JC MILLER is a partner at Vallier Design Asso- phy; Geographical Review; Human Ecology; Journal ciates in Point Richmond, California, and the of Geography; and Ethics, Place and Environment. director of the Landscape Architecture Cer- He is a 2014 recipient of the University Award tifcate Program at UC Berkeley Extension. He for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate worked for over a decade in the Royston offce Teaching. and, as a principal, assisted Royston in the design and execution of his fnal projects. REUBEN RAINEY, FASLA, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, taught landscape CYDNEY MILLSTEIN, founder and principal of architecture history and theory for over thirty Architectural & Historical Research in Kansas years. A former professor of religious studies,

46 Rainey has written on a wide variety of topics, CHRISTOPHER VERNON is associate professor from Italian Renaissance landscapes to modern in the School of Architecture, Landscape, and “healing gardens.” Visual Arts at the University of Western Aus- tralia. His extensive publications address topics ROGER G. REED is a historian for the National including the landscape architecture of Marion Register of Historic Places and the National Mahony and Walter Burley Griffn; the designed Landmarks Program. His previous publications landscapes of Canberra, Australia; and the Prai- include Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture rie School in American landscape architecture. of Gridley J. F. Bryant. CHARLES D. WARREN is an architect and DAVID SCHUYLER is professor of American author. His previous publications include Car- studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He rere & Hastings, Architects (as coauthor) and the is author of Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, introduction to The Architecture of Charles A. Platt. and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909; The New Warren has taught design at the University of Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Michigan and the Institute for Classical Archi- Nineteenth-Century America; and A City Trans- tecture, and in 1990–91 was town architect in formed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization Seaside, Florida. in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940–1980. He has served as coeditor of several volumes of the The THAISA WAY, ASLA, professor of landscape Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. architecture, teaches history, theory, and design at the University of Washington. She has R. BRUCE STEPHENSON is director of the published and lectured on feminist histories of Planning in Civic Urbanism masters program design and women practitioners. The author at Rollins College, a landscape design consul- of several books, Way is the editor of the tant, author of Visions of Eden: Environmental- forthcoming collection of essays River Cities, ism and Urban Planning in St. Petersburg, Florida, City Rivers (2018), part of the Dumbarton Oaks 1900–1995, and contributing scholar to the Colloquia series. Florida Humanities flm series on community, Imagining a New Florida.

DAVID C. STREATFIELD is professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the University of Washington. His previous publications include numerous essays and California Gardens: Creating a New Eden.

JUDITH B. TANKARD is a landscape historian, preservation consultant, and author or coau- thor of seven other books on landscape history, including Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden. She taught at the Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, for more than twenty years.

WILLIAM H. TISHLER, FASLA, is professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin–Madison, and editor of Ameri- can Landscape Architecture: Designers and Places.

47 Designing the American Park Series in association with University of Georgia Press

From Central Park to Yosemite Valley, park possible for the public to enjoy a natural area landscapes are among the most signifcant while limiting the impacts of that use. Design is achievements of American art and society. The the difference between a vacant lot and a play- historical events and themes that motivated ground. Volumes in Designing the American their creation—the reform of the city, the roots Park will not only be scholarly contributions of environmentalism, the changing meaning but will help reclaim, inform, and redefne the of nature in American art—give park history a purposes of park design today. broad appeal. While parks are often touted as SERIES EDITOR “America’s best idea,” there has been no series of Ethan Carr, FASLA, is a landscape historian and scholarly publications devoted specifcally to the preservationist specializing in the public land- history of their design. Designing the American scapes of the United States. He has written two Park will attract a generation of contributors books on the history of American park planning who are ready to forge a mature vision of this and design, Wilderness by Design (1998) and Mis- unique chapter in American cultural history. sion 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma There is a remarkable continuity in design (LALH, 2007), and is currently a professor in theory and process across the diversity of types the Department of Landscape Architecture and and purposes of American parks. The emphasis Regional Planning at the University of Massa- of this series specifcally on design illuminates chusetts Amherst. these connections, including those among the design of municipal, state, and national parks. MANUSCRIPT INQUIRIES Park design is not only understudied, its Please direct manuscript inquiries to Ethan Carr, essential purpose and character are often mis- Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional understood. Design, after all, implies some Planning, 210 Design Building, 551 North Pleas- kind of development, and therefore a human ant Street, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, intervention that is the antithesis of the “nat- MA 01003 ([email protected]) or Robin Kar- ural.” But our “best idea” has only remained son, Director, Library of American Landscape so because it has been constantly reinvented History, P.O. Box 1323, Amherst, MA 01004 through new design. Design is what makes it ([email protected]).

48 Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design Series in association with University of Georgia Press

“The land is the appointed remedy for whatever tant to the history of environmental design; a is false and fantastic in our culture. The conti- signifcant theme or movement revealed and nent we inhabit is to be the physic and food of understood by analyzing the design of places; our mind, as well as our body. The land with or an assessment of historical literature on the its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair subject. International linkages and the evolution the errors of a . . . traditional education, and and transference of ideas through time and space bring us into just relations of men and things.” are considered important to the American story. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844) Because of the absolute necessity of sustain- able living in the future, the series is particularly Since Emerson’s day, advocates of environmen- timely. Its goal is to foster a cross-disciplinary tal design have held true to the two primary dialogue about the relationship of humans to principles expressed in this quote: that a con- nature, influencing the decisions we make and nection to the physical world (especially the the places we design today. landscape) provides physical, mental, and spiri- tual benefts and that landscape design offers a SERIES EDITOR means of orchestrating a “just relation” between Daniel J. Nadenicek is dean of the College of humans and the world. Environment and Design at the University of Our defnition of environmental design Georgia. A well-known scholar in the feld, includes a motivation to beneft people and Nadenicek has published many articles about place through design or preservation of the the history of landscape architecture and its landscape. It implies a conjunction of many relationship to American literary ideas. disciplines—including landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning, forestry, regional MANUSCRIPT INQUIRIES planning, engineering, ecology, horticulture, Please direct inquiries to Daniel J. Nadenicek, historic preservation, geography, and American Dean, College of Environment and Design, literature. 609 Caldwell Hall, University of Georgia, Ath- The series is intended to investigate the his- ens, GA 30602-1845 ([email protected]) or tory of environmental design from a variety of Robin Karson, Director, Library of American angles. Topics might include a place or places, Landscape History, P.O. Box 1323, Amherst, designer or designers, or historical fgures impor- MA 01004 ([email protected]).

49 Masters of Modern Landscape Design in association with University of Georgia Press

The Masters of Modern Landscape Design se- of landscape architects who laid the foundations ries explores the work of the most signifcant for midcentury modernism as well as those who American landscape architects of the twentieth continued to engage with modernist-influenced century. Written for a diverse range of readers, principles into the late twentieth century. these concise, authoritative monographs discuss The paperback volumes are affordable, engag- each practitioner’s career in a biographical over- ingly written, well illustrated, and handsomely view followed by succinct, illustrated essays on designed—suitable for sales in bookstores, mu- selected projects. seum shops, and botanical gardens. They are LALH launched the series in 2016 with the intended for students, preservationists, and de- publication of Ruth Shellhorn, the frst book on sign practitioners as well as general readers. this influential landscape architect and her role in developing what would become an iconic SERIES EDITORS California design aesthetic. Subsequent mono- Robin Karson, Hon. ASLA, is the executive di- graphs on James Rose and Lawrence Halprin rector of LALH and the author of several books continued the exploration of modernist land- on American landscape architects and their scape architecture in America. work. Sarah Allaback, LALH senior manuscript Our goal for the Masters of Modern Land- editor, has published on a variety of topics re- scape Design series is to educate broad audi- lated to architecture and design. ences about the feld of landscape architecture, to place important practitioners in national and MANUSCRIPT INQUIRIES international context, and to provide preserva- Please direct inquiries to Robin Karson, Library tion support for historic gardens, parks, suburbs, of American Landscape History, P.O. Box 1323, and campuses. To this end, LALH has expanded Amherst, MA 01004 ([email protected]) or the scope of the series to include the generations Sarah Allaback ([email protected]).

50 American Society of Landscape Architects Centennial Reprint Series in association with University of Massachusetts Press

The series comprises a small library of influen- Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticul- tial books about American landscape architec- ture, and Landscape Gardening by Robert Mor- ture. The ten titles were selected by a committee ris Copeland (1859) of distinguished historians and practitioners Landscape Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the who identifed them as classics, important in West by H. W. S. Cleveland (1871) shaping design, planting, planning, and stew- Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect by Charles W. ardship practices in the feld and still relevant Eliot (1902) today. Each is reprinted from the original edi- The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening by Wil- tion and includes a new introduction that pro- helm Miller (1915) vides historical and contemporary perspective. The Art of Landscape Architecture by Samuel Par- The project was undertaken by LALH to com- sons Jr. (1915) memorate the 1999 centennial of the ASLA. Landscape-Gardening by O. C. Simonds (1920) The series was funded by the Viburnum The Spirit of the Garden by Martha Brookes Foundation, Rochester, New York, now the Hutcheson (1923) Viburnum Trilobum Fund of the New York The Book of Landscape Gardening by Frank A. Community Trust, advised by Nancy R. Turner. Waugh (1926) New Towns for Old by John Nolen (1927) Landscape for Living by Garrett Eckbo (1950)

51 Film Series: North America by Design

North America by Design is a series of short doc- Grounded in core scholarship distilled from umentary flms about influential North Ameri- LALH books, the mini-documentaries are can landscapes and their designers produced by hosted by historians and landscape architects LALH in association with award-winning Hott who explain the design process in accessible Productions of Florentine Films. terms that will engage nonspecialists as well as Through the magic of the camera’s move- students, practitioners, and scholars. ment, these flms explore the physical reality Our goal is to educate wide audiences about and the spirit of special places and the people the fne art of landscape architecture. Each flm who imagined, created, and cared for them. is also a work of art in its own right.

52 Fletcher Steele and Naumkeag: A Playground of the Imagination

Between 1926 and 1955, landscape architect South Lawn, Chinese Temple Garden, Blue Fletcher Steele and his client Mabel Choate Steps, and Rose Garden. Each of these designs created many new gardens for Naumkeag, the reflected the tempo of its time and also con- Choate family summer estate in Stockbridge, nected visitors to the beauty of the Berkshire Massachusetts. The new designs respected the Mountains, visible from any part of the land- layout of earlier gardens created c. 1885 by scape. It is a magical site, truly a playground of Nathan Barrett for the original Stanford White the imagination. “cottage.” You can read more about Fletcher Steele A vibrant relationship developed between in these LALH books: Fletcher Steele, Landscape Choate and Steele, whose work began with Architect; A Genius for Place; and Design in the Little Naumkeag’s Afternoon Garden and soon pro- Garden. gressed to other features in the landscape: the

53 Designing in the Prairie Spirit: A Conversation with Darrel Morrison

Designing in the Prairie Spirit features internation- You can read more about the “prairie spirit” ally renowned landscape architect Darrel Mor- in North American landscape design in The rison, who reflects on his childhood in Iowa and Native Landscape Reader; The Prairie Spirit in Land- the impact of Jens Jensen, Aldo Leopold, and scape Design; Landscape-Gardening; and A Genius others on his career. for Place.

54 The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System

Winner, 2015 Society of Architectural Historians Award for Film and Video

Based on the LALH book by Francis R. Kowsky, You can read more about the Buffalo Parks this flm explores the development of the system in The Best Planned City in the World: Olm- nation’s frst park system, designed by Frederick sted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System. Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1868.

55 Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts

In 1883, Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. moved plans for boulevards and parkways, residential from New York City to Brookline, Massachu- subdivisions, institutional commissions, and pri- setts, a Boston suburb that had anointed itself vate gardens, the Olmsted frm carefully guided the “richest town in the world.” From Fairsted, the development of Brookline, at the same the Olmsteds’ Brookline home and offce, the time designing cities and suburbs across North frm collaborated with an impressive galaxy of America. neighbors who were among the regional and You can read more about the work of the national leaders in the felds of architecture and Olmsted frm in Community by Design; A Modern horticulture, among them Henry Hobson Rich- Arcadia; The Best Planned City in the World; and ardson and Charles Sprague Sargent. Through Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England.

56 Ruth Shellhorn: Midcentury Landscape Design in Southern California

Winner, Audience Favorite Award, Modesto Architecture Festival

Over the course of her nearly sixty-year career, pers with the promise of the “Southern Cali- modernist landscape architect Ruth Shellhorn fornia experience.” Shellhorn also worked to (1909–2006) created close to four hundred preserve the region’s coastline, and in 1955 landscape designs and collaborated with some she helped lay out Disneyland. A year later, of the most celebrated architects in Southern she became supervising landscape architect for California. the University of California at Riverside. Shell- Today she is best remembered for her Bull- horn’s landscape legacy is unique and largely ock’s department store designs—lush gardens unknown. You can read more about this impor- and fountain-flled courtyards that lured shop- tant practioner in Ruth Shellhorn.

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