The Foundation Terrace at Dumbarton Oaks, designed by Beatrix Farrand. Photo Credit: See below.
The gardens at Dumbarton Oaks, a 54+ acre estate in Washington, D.C. were designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, ASLA (1872-1959). The mansion was owned by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss from 1920-1940 and the couple commissioned Farrand to design acres of terraced gardens influenced by the Italian Renaissance style. Farrand worked on the Bliss’s gardens and landscapes from 1922 until 1940, when the estate with given to Harvard University. Farrand was one of the founding members of the American society for Landscape architects and the first woman member of the organization.
Read more about Beatrix Farrand in BWAF’s Collection of Women of 20th-Century American Architecture and add your own knowledge.
For additional resources about Beatrix Farrand and women in landscape architecture, see Thaisa Way’s Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century. The book is reviewed in April’s BWAF bookshelf.
Full Photo Credit: Passionvine (Phillip Oliver) at the English language Wikipedia
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(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], from Wikimedia Commons
