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Charles Eliot: Landscape Architect; A Lover of Nature and of His Kind Who Trained Himself for a New Profession, Practised It Happily and Through It Wrought Much Good

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Methods of practice, 204-206 first planting design, 207 the suburbs in March, 208 the Longfellow Memorial, 210 214; engagement, 214 laying out the Norton estate in Cambridge, 214; Anglomania in park making, 215 - 218; the beginnings of landscape art a short list of books and papers, 219 - 223.

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922 pages, Hardcover

Published February 27, 2018

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Charles Eliot

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Charles Eliot, son of Harvard President Charles William Eliot and cousin of art historian Charles Eliot Norton, was a pioneering landscape architect.

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