At the close of the 19th century, American landscape design emerged as a separate profession open to women as well as men. With the rise of the trained landscape architect and the astounding growth of personal wealth that followed the Civil War, Americans built lavish country houses surrounded by sophisticated gardens and outlying parks. Illustrated with over 200 rare archival photographs from period sources - including Guy Lowell's American Gardens, Barr Ferree's American Estates and Gardens, and P.H. Elwood Jr.'s American Landscape Architecture - American Gardens 1890-1930 presents a unique glimpse into the world of the private estate. With landscapes designed by Charles Adams Platt, the Olmsted Brothers, Beatrix Jones Farrand, and more than 60 other landscape architects, American Gardens 1890-1930 documents herbaceous borders, rose terraces, cyprus allees, pergolas, arbors, pools, and ponds as they originally appeared in gardens designed by or for their owners. From the intimate New Hampshire gardens of the sculpture Augustus Saint-Gaudens to the Hudson River estate of John D. Rockefeller, this volume depicts the glorious American countryside as it was envisioned by the country's most talented landscape architects.
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