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Arthur A. Shurcliff : design, preservation, and the creation of the Colonial Williamsburg landscape / Elizabeth Hope Cushing.
- Title
- Arthur A. Shurcliff : design, preservation, and the creation of the Colonial Williamsburg landscape / Elizabeth Hope Cushing.
- Author
- Cushing, Elizabeth Hope, 1945-
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, in association with Library of American Landscape History, [2014]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | SB469.385.M37 C87 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Library of American Landscape History.
- Description
- xiv, 298 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "In this richly illustrated biography, Elizabeth Hope Cushing shows how Shurcliff's early years in Boston, his training, his early design and planning work, and his experience creating an Arts and Crafts-style summer compound in Ipswich led to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest commission of his career and his most significant contribution to American landscape architecture"--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Designing the American park
- Uniform Title
- Designing the American park.
- Subject
- Shurcliff, Arthur A. 1870-1957
- Landscape architects > Massachusetts > Biography
- Landscape architecture > United States
- Architectes paysagistes > Massachusetts > Biographies
- Architecture du paysage > États-Unis
- Landscape architects
- Landscape architecture
- Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.)
- Williamsburg (Va.) > History
- Massachusetts
- United States
- Virginia > Williamsburg
- Virginia > Colonial Williamsburg
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index.
- Awards (note)
- Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award Nominee, 2015
- Contents
- The formative years -- Harvard education and Olmsted training -- The advent of Margaret Homer Nichols -- The creation of the Ipswich home -- Town planning, highways, and roads -- Park work in Boston and vicinity -- Making the landscape and gardens at Colonial Williamsburg : the first phase, 1928-1934 -- Conclusion -- Appendixes: Draftsmen who worked in the Shurcliff office ; Town planning projects ; Campus planning projects ; "Landscape items needed to consolidate our gains" (1934) ; "Principles underlying the garden restoration" (1940).
- ISBN
- 1625340397
- 9781625340399
- 2014008140
- 9782014008142
- LCCN
- 2014008140
- OCLC
- 844729404
- SCSB-11537302
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library