Cultural Landscape Report For The Buttrick House Gardens PDF Download

Excerpt from Cultural Landscape Report, Vol. 1: Dumbarton Oaks Park, Rock Creek Park; Site History, Existing Conditions, and Analysis and Evaluation Dumbarton Oaks Park is an exceptionally significant historic landscape, where the naturalistic gardens and built features offer a very special experience to those who visit. The park is a striking example of one of the most important designs by land scape architect Beatrix Farrand. Mrs Farrand is considered the finest woman landscape architect of her generation. The owners of the Dumbarton Oaks estate, Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, wanted Mrs. Farrand to create for them an illu sion of country life within the city. And, working closely with Mildred Bliss, Mrs. Farrand made the vision a reality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.