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.
Andrew Jackson Downing
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.
Newburgh is a city in Orange County, New York, United States. With a population of 28,856 as of the 2020 census, it is a principal city of the Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh metropolitan area. Located 60 miles (97 km) north of New York City, and 90 miles (140 km) south of Albany on the Hudson River within the Hudson Valley Area, the city of Newburgh is located near Stewart International Airport, one of the primary airports for Downstate New York.
Downtown Newburgh from Beacon, across the Hudson River
Woodcut of Newburgh in 1842, when the Dutch Reformed Church, had its original dome and lantern
Water Street c. 1906; the buildings were demolished in urban renewal efforts of the 1960s and 1970s.
City manager Joseph Mitchell attending the Newburgh City Council in 1961
