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Beatrix Farrand
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Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect. Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, pu
Beatrix Jones Farrand cabinet card est 1890s 1910s
Beatrix Jones Farrand cabinet card est 1890s 1910s
lossy page 1 FORSYTHIA WALK AFTER WIDENING Photocopy of photograph, date unknown National Park Service, National Capital Region files Dumbarton Oaks P
lossy page 1 FORSYTHIA WALK AFTER WIDENING Photocopy of photograph, date unknown National Park Service, National Capital Region files Dumbarton Oaks Park, Thirty second and R Streets Northwest, HABS DC,GEO,175 6.tif
The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden in the New York Botanical Garden. The garden layout, including the design for a central iron-lattice gazebo and surr
The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden in the New York Botanical Garden. The garden layout, including the design for a central iron-lattice gazebo and surrounding fence, was created by Beatrix Farrand in 1916. Due to iron shortages during World War I, construction of the gazebo and the fence was not completed, and the whole design was later forgotten. In the mid-1980s, NYBG Board member Beth Strauss rediscovered Farrand's original plans. David Rockefeller donated $1 million for the completion of Farrand's design, and the garden, including the gazebo and the fence, was finally realized in 1988. It was named the "Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden" after David's wife,
Fountain at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., site of her best known garden design
Fountain at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., site of her best known garden design
Edith Wharton
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Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
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…Rawle (1850–1923), whose father was lawyer William Henry Rawle (1823–1889). Her father was Frederic Rhinelander Jones (1846–1918), brother of novelist Edith Wharton. She enjoyed long seasons at the family's summer home Reef Point Estate in Mount Desert Island, Maine. She was the niece of Edith Wharton and lifelong…
Wharton, c. 1895
Wharton, c. 1895
Portrait of Wharton as a child by Edward Harrison May (1870)
Portrait of Wharton as a child by Edward Harrison May (1870)
Edith Wharton by Edward Harrison May (1881)
Edith Wharton by Edward Harrison May (1881)
The Mount, 2006
The Mount, 2006