| Description |
276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. The Years of Preparation -- Ch. 2. The Art of Landscape Design -- Ch. 3. Parks and Park Systems. Central Park, New York. Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The Chicago South Park. Mount Royal, Montreal. Belle Isle, Detroit. The Front, Parade and Delaware Park, Buffalo. The Back Bay Fens, Riverway, Arnold Arboretum and Franklin Park, Boston. Genesee Valley, Seneca and Highland Parks, Rochester, New York Shawnee, Iroquois and Cherokee Parks, Louisville, Kentucky -- Ch. 4. Residential Communities. Riverside, Illinois. Sudbrook, Maryland. Druid Hills, Atlanta -- Ch. 5. Academic Campuses and Residential Institutions. Lawrenceville School, New Jersey. Stanford University, California. Hartford Retreat Buffalo State Asylum. McLean Asylum -- Ch. 6. Designing for Domesticity. Fairsted, Brookline, Massachusetts. Moraine Farm, Beverly, Massachusetts -- Ch. 7. The Collaboration with H. H. Richardson. Oakes Ames Memorial Hall and Civil War Memorial Cairn, North Easton, Massachusetts |
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Langwater Estate, North Easton, Massachusetts. Ephraim Gurney Estate, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. Robert Treat Paine Estate, Waltham, Massachusetts. Boylston Street Bridge, Boston. Boston & Albany Railroad Stations -- Ch. 8. The United States Capitol Grounds -- Ch. 9. Scenic Preservation. Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove. Niagara Reservation -- Ch. 10. Landscape Architecture for the Semiarid American West. Public Pleasure Grounds for San Francisco. Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland. The College of California, Berkeley. Stanford University, Palo Alto. Lake Wauconda, Perry Park, Colorado -- Ch. 11. Biltmore Estate -- Ch. 12. The Ongoing Legacy. Public Park Systems: Seattle, Washington. Scenic Reservations: Point Lobos, California |
| Notes |
"A David Larkin book"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-275) |
| Subject |
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
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Landscape architects -- United States -- Biography.
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Landscape architecture -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Larkin, David, 1936-
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Rocheleau, Paul.
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| LC no. |
95012042 |
| ISBN |
084781842X |
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