Beatrix Farrand
Architect
1872 – 1959
Who was Beatrix Farrand?
Beatrix Jones Farrand was a landscape gardener and landscape architect in the United States. Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House. Only a few of her major works survive: Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, on Mounr Desert, Maine and elements of the campuses of Princeton, Yale, and Occidental.
Farrand was one of the founding eleven members, and the only woman, of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Beatrix Farrand is one of the most accomplished persons, and women, recognized in both the first decades of the landscape architecture profession and the centuries of landscape garden design arts and accomplishments.
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- Born
- Jun 19, 1872
New York City - Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Feb 28, 1959
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on July 23, 2013
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