Beatrix Farrand

Beatrix Jones Farrand (born June 19, 1872 in New York City , † February 28, 1959 Mount Desert Island ) was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect . She has received orders for the design of gardens for large estates and country estates, parks, botanical gardens and universities. She became known for the design of the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and the White House Rose Garden of the White House . With her style, she has shaped the American image of landscape architecture significantly.

Farrand was a founding member, and the only woman, of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1899 . She has designed and maintained an estimated 200 gardens over her 50-year career. One of her most important mentors was Charles Sprague Sargent . Your records are preserved in the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Berkeley and the Harvard University Library (Arnold Arboretum Archives).

Projects

• 1899 site of Washington National Cathedral , Washington, DC
• 1911 'Glenmere' Garden for Robert Goelet
• 1912–43 advisor for the grounds of Princeton University , Princeton
• 1913-16 Jacqueline Kennedy Garden , White House Rose Garden , Washington, DC
• 1913–43 site of the Morgan Library & Museum , New York City
• 1918–29 'Eoli' (now Harkness Memorial State Park ), Waterford
• 1920 'Hill-Stead' (now the garden of the Hill-Stead Museum ), Farmington
• 1922-47 Dumbarton Oaks , Washington, DC
• 1923–43 consultant for the Yale University site , construction of the Marsh Botanical Garden , New Haven
• 1927 Garden of Casa Dorinda, Montecito
• 1927 Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara
• Occidental College grounds, Los Angeles
• Site of the California Institute of Technology , Pasadena
• 1926–35 'The Eyrie' for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , Mount Desert Island
• 1929–43 consultant for the grounds of the University of Chicago
• 1930 adviser on the establishment and maintenance of Acadia National Park , Mount Desert Island
• 1932–37 'Dartington Hall' for Dorothy Payne Whitney
• 1946–50 consultant for the Arnold Arboretum , Boston
• 'Reef Point Estate', 'Garland Farm'

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jane Brown: Lady into Landscape Gardener: Beatrix Farrand's Early Years at the Arnold Arboretum . (engl. pdf .; 603 kB)
2. ↑ Collection of the Environmental Design Archives (Engl.)
3. ↑ Collection in the Harvard University Library ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) 
4. ↑ Beatrix Farrand: Landscape Architect Princeton University (Eng.)
5. ↑ Hill-Stead Garden
6. ↑ Dumbarton Oaks (Eng.)
7. ^ Judith Ann Schiff: Old Yale - Secret Gardens , Yale Alumni Magazine, May 2001 (Eng.)
8. ↑ The Eyrie - Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden

literature

• Reef Point Gardens Bulletin (1946–1955) edited by Beatrix Farrand
• David Nolan: Beatrix. The Gardening Life of Beatrix Farrand, 1872-1959 . Viking, Penguin Group, 1995
• Thaïsa Way: Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century. University of Virginia Press, 2009
• Patrick Chasse: The Last Garden of Beatrix Farrand , Journal of the Maine Olmsted Alliance for Parks & Landscapes, Vol. 11, 2003

Web links

• The Beatrix Farrand Society (Engl.)
• Project list of links (Engl.)
• Beatrix Farrand's Secret Garden. by Anne Raver, In: New York Times , November 27, 2003