Andrew Jackson Downing
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Andrew Jackson Downing was an American landscape designer, horticulturist, writer, prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival in the United States, and editor of The Horticulturist magazine (1846–1852). Downing is considered to be a founder of American landscape architecture.
Design II, English or Rural Gothic style, Cottage Residences, 1842
Design VI, Italian style, Cottage Residences, 1842
Looking east from the top of the Washington Monument towards the National Mall and the United States Capitol in the summer of 1901. The Mall exhibited the landscape of winding paths and seemingly random plantings that Downing had designed in the early 1850s.
Warren Delano Jr.
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Warren Delano Jr. was an American merchant and drug smuggler who made a large fortune smuggling illegal opium into China. He was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Delano's father, Capt. Warren Delano
Catherine Robbins Lyman Delano
A 1910 portrait of Delano's daughter, Katherine Robbins Collier, by Lallie Charles