Piedmont Park
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Piedmont Park is an urban forest and park in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, located about 1 mile northeast of Downtown, between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. Originally the land w
Piedmont Park’s Lake Clara Meer with Midtown skyline in the background
The Atlanta skyline from Piedmont Park
Bridge over Lake Clara Meer
2006 Dogwood Festival with Midtown Atlanta skyline in background
Joseph Forsyth Johnson
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Joseph Forsyth Johnson was an English landscape architect and disciple of John Ruskin. He "played a pivotal role in introducing the notion of naturalistic planting."
Piedmont Park
…prominent Atlantan Charles A. Collier, to use the land for fairs and expositions and later gave the park its name. The park was originally designed by Joseph Forsyth Johnson to host the first of two major expositions held in the park in the late 19th century. The Piedmont Exposition opened in October 1887 to great fanfare…
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