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A genius for place : American landscapes of the country place era / Robin Karson ; with photographs by Carol Betsch.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection Oversize SB469.9 .K37 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karson, Robin S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape architects--United States--Biography.
- Landscape architects.
- Horticulturists--United States--Biography.
- Horticulturists.
- Landscape architects--United States--History.
- Horticulturists--United States--History.
- Landscape design--History.
- Landscape design.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 428 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press : In association with Library of American Landscape History, c2007.
- Contents:
- Pt. I. An American style, 1900-1919. Warren H. Manning, 1860-1938 ; Charles A. Platt, 1861-1933 ; Gwinn, Cleveland, Ohio ; Stan Hywet Hall, Akron, Ohio ; Ellen Shipman, 1869-1950
- Pt. II. Innovation and wildness, 1920-1929. Beatrix Farrand, 1872-1959 ; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. ; Marian Cruger Coffin, 1876-1957 ; Winterthur, Winterthur, Delaware ; Jens Jensen, 1860-1951 ; Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan
- Pt. III. Dreams and abstractions, 1929-1939. Lockwood de Forest, Jr., 1896-1949 ; Val Verde (Dias Felicitas), Santa Barbara, California ; Fletcher Steele, 1885-1971 ; Naumkeag, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-402) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Jones fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781558496361 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 155849636X (cloth : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 123029765
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