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(a commission that Frank Lloyd Wright lost). Platt was also an architectural member of the Washington,
D.C. Fine Arts Commission during 1916-1921. Platt's service to the commission overlapped with that of
Greenleaf who served the commission as a landscape architect from 1918-1927.
Guy Lowell (1870-1927) 1486
Educated at the atelier Pascal and Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Lowell graduated in 1899. His earliest
architectural project was completed in 1903, contemporary with Greenleaf's designs for the reconstruction
of the formal gardens at Hyde Park. Important landscape projects included a job for Payne Whitney in
Manhaasett on Long Island. His largest landscape commission was for the Harbor Hill property (1905).
At the C.K.G. Billings' Long Island property, Farnsworth (1905), he created a "structured garden close to
the house that dissolved into less rigid surroundings as one moved away from the residence to stables or
outbuildings."
Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959) 1487
Farrand's parents divorced before she was twelve years old, and as a result, the young woman
often traveled abroad with her mother and her father's sister Edith Wharton. Following one European
garden tour, Jones opened an office in her mother's New York City home in 1895. Drawing on the
widespread connections of her family's social circle, her first major commission came from William
Garrison of Tuxedo, NY, in 1896. In 1899, she became a founding member of the American Society of
Landscape Architects. She was the only woman among the eleven founders.
Farrand's important residential projects include:
Willard Straight property Old Westbury, Long Island 1914-1932
J.P. Morgan's town house garden New York City 1913-1943
Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller garden Seal Harbor, ME 1925-1950
Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss Dumbarton Oaks 1921-1947
Washington, D.C.
Warren Manning (1860-1938)
The son of a nurseryman working under Olmsted, Sr., Warren Manning supervised nearly 100
projects, including the Biltmore estate and the installation of plants at the World's Columbian Exposition
of 1893. Manning started his own practice in the Boston area with his brother in 1896, which eventually
attained a national scope, but his residential estate work was centered in the Midwest. He is considered
one of the most accomplished plantsmen of the 20th century. He was one of the founding members of
ASLA.
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J. H. Wittemore property Middlebury, CT
Gustave Pabst property Milwaukee, WI
August and Adolphus Busch property St. Louis, MO
Frank Seiberling property Stan Hywett Hall Akron, OH
Cyrus McCormick property Lake Forest, IL
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Excerpted from Shilland, in Pioneers II, 89-90.
1487
Excerpted from Eleanor M. McPeck in, American Landscape Architecture: Designers and Places,
William H. Tishler, ed.
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List excerpted from Robin Karson, in Pioneers I, 82-86.
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