Gardens of eden : Long Island's early twentieth-century planned communities / edited by Robert B. MacKay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackay, Robert B.

Contributor:

MacKay, Robert B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Planned communities--New York (State)--Long Island--History--20th century.

Planned communities.

Garden cities--New York (State)--Long Island--History--20th century.

Garden cities.

City planning--New York (State)--Long Island--History--20th century.

City planning.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]

Contents:

The Residential Park Phenomenon on Long Island

Garden City: American Versions of Utopia

A Modern Venice: H. O. Havemeyer's Bayberry Point

For Teachers Only: Plandome and Its Companions

From Flatbush to the Shinnecock Hills: Dean Alvord's Idea

Mrs. Marsh's Bellerose

Kensington and Douglas Manor: The Rickert-Finlay Realty Company

Long Beach: Senator William H. Reynolds's City by the Sea

The Thousand-Acre City by the Sea: T. B. Ackerson's Brightwaters

Great Neck Estates: Harvey Stewart McKnight and the McKnight Realty Company, 1907-1916

Paul V. Shields at Great Neck: Great Neck Villa and Grenwolde

Carl Graham Fisher and Montauk Beach: "I just have to see the dirt fly!"

Robert Burton's Woodmere

The Grand Scheme: Felix Isman, Ernestus Gulick, and the Creation of Jamaica Estates

Robert Weeks de Forest: Forest Hills Gardens and Munsey Park

Hapgood's Shoreham: Arts and Crafts by the Sea

Beacon Hill: A Gem in the Diadem

Surf and Controversy: Realty Associates & Neponsit

Gondolas in Copiague: Victor Pisani, Isaac Meister, and the Creation of American Venice, 1925-1929

Old Field South

What If? Planned Communities That Might Have Been.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780393733211 : HRD

0393733211 : HRD