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Though few Americans can identify Andrew Jackson Downing, who died in 1852 at just 36, his influence as an architect, horticulturist, writer, and town planner has been far-reaching. Through his writings and his designs, Downing helped lay the groundwork for the urban parks of Frederick Law Olmsted, the national park system, and even, in some ways, the conservation movement. Downing was very well-known in his time, especially for his best-selling pattern books illustrating Gothic Revival houses and picturesque grounds. David Schuyler, a professor of American Studies at Franklin and Marshall College, has produced a fascinating biography of Downing that also serves well as an introduction to design principles and architecture of the 19th century.
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Incredibly, until this thoughtful work by David Schuyler, there had been no full-scale biography of this seminal polymath. -- The New York Times Book Review, Martin Filler
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The lead article in the June 1849 Horticulturist began with the lament of a correspondent who had just moved to a community where, he declared, the residents were completely devoid of architectural taste. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
simple rural cottages, domestic notices, bracketed cottage, bracketed style, popular refinement, rural taste, pomological society, therapeutic landscape, rural architecture, metropolitan landscape, landscape gardening, rural art, state agricultural society, new urban landscape, suburban cottage, villa architecture, public grounds, villa residence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Cottage Residences, The Architecture of Country Houses, Courtesy of Special Collections, Morris Library, University of Delaware, Calvert Vaux, Marshall College, Hudson River, Fredrika Bremer, Caroline Downing, Greek Revival, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson Downing, Alexander Jackson Davis, Charles Downing, Clarence Cook, New Jersey, Rural Residences, New England, Luther Tucker, Mount Auburn, Robert Donaldson, Central Park New!
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The lead article in the June 1849 Horticulturist began with the lament of a correspondent who had just moved to a community where, he declared, the residents were completely devoid of architectural taste. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
simple rural cottages, domestic notices, bracketed cottage, bracketed style, popular refinement, rural taste, pomological society, therapeutic landscape, rural architecture, metropolitan landscape, landscape gardening, rural art, state agricultural society, new urban landscape, suburban cottage, villa architecture, public grounds, villa residence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Cottage Residences, The Architecture of Country Houses, Courtesy of Special Collections, Morris Library, University of Delaware, Calvert Vaux, Marshall College, Hudson River, Fredrika Bremer, Caroline Downing, Greek Revival, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson Downing, Alexander Jackson Davis, Charles Downing, Clarence Cook, New Jersey, Rural Residences, New England, Luther Tucker, Mount Auburn, Robert Donaldson, Central Park New!
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- The Architecture of Country Houses by Andrew J. Downing on 45 pages
- Rural Essays (Architecture and Decorative Art Ser.) by Andrew J. Downing on 20 pages
- Villas and Cottages by Calvert Vaux on 20 pages
- Fruits and Fruit Trees of America by Andrew Downing on 12 pages
- Civil War by Taylor Downing on 6 pages
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- Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850--1930 (Creating the North American Landscape) by Terence Young in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Pioneers of American Landscape Design (Professional Architecture) by Charles A. Birnbaum in Front Matter, and page 102
- The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840--1917 (Creating the North American Landscape) by Jon A. Peterson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- From Garden City to Green City: The Legacy of Ebenezer Howard by Professor Kermit C. Parsons on page 274, and Back Flap
- The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America by Professor John E. Crowley in Back Matter
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