A prominent figure in the history of American landscape design, Beatrix Farrand née Jones (1872-1959) was the mastermind behind the idyllic grounds of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden on Mount ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. At age 27, Farrand was the only woman of 11 founders of the ...
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (8th : 1980 : Washington, D.C.) https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...
The leading landscape designer of the turn of the 20th century had a list of clients that reads like a who’s who of the Gilded Age: J.P. Morgan, Theodore Roosevelt, first lady Ellen Wilson, John D.
Presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the social life of the ...