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• Alexander Jackson Davis
  adapted European historical models for American clients and landscapes. His many lithographs, sketches, and watercolors document public and private landscapes
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• Benjamin Henry Latrobe
  Horsdumonde (“Out of this World”) [Fig. 2]. His journals and watercolors document a wealth of topographical, scientific, and landscape subjects, as well
  38 KB (4,911 words) - 18:08, September 16, 2021
• Picturesque
  period, to erect on the summit of Mount Auburn, a Tower, after some classic model, of sufficient height to rise above the tops of the surrounding trees. This
  75 KB (10,259 words) - 13:03, April 1, 2021
• Plot/Plat
  numerous, a new building has been erected for their use, upon a similar model, with the sisters house. A small court yard, or grass plat, is between these
  54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
• Nursery
  principal objects of culture in a private tree-nursery are the hardy trees and shrubs of the country, which produce seeds; and the great object of the private
  63 KB (9,124 words) - 09:40, April 6, 2021
• Monticello
  1997, archaeologists began a long-term Plantation Archaeological Survey to document and analyze the history of settlement and land-use on the more than 2,000
  78 KB (10,171 words) - 00:22, August 25, 2021
• Cemetery/Burying ground/Burial ground
  clearly defined, separate spaces. As such, New Haven Burying Ground became a model for other cities. Nevertheless, some writers, such as Rev. Nehemiah Adams
  71 KB (10,152 words) - 10:36, April 6, 2021
• David Hosack
  entertained plans to document the botanic garden in a multi-volume illustrated publication, American Botany, or a Flora of the United States, modeled on James Edward
  54 KB (8,005 words) - 21:40, September 15, 2021
• John Bartram
  in the early 1730s were creating a comprehensive set of nature prints documenting indigenous leaf and grass specimens. In 1733 Breintnall sent a set of
  39 KB (5,119 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
• Hedge
  disagreeable object from the eye.” Martineau, Harriet, 1835, describing Charleston, SC (1838: 1:228) “The country is flat and sandy, and the only objects are planters’
  88 KB (12,511 words) - 20:49, March 29, 2021
• The Woodlands
  text). David Hosack wrote in 1803 that Hamilton’s greenhouse provided the model for the one that he had recently begun building at the Elgin Garden in New
  110 KB (15,513 words) - 20:48, August 30, 2021
• Park
  park, through which the river flows, yields not in beauty to those, the model of which the French have received from England, and are now imitating with
  87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
• Parmentier’s Horticultural and Botanical Garden
  were hot beds and an herbaceous plant garden.The broadside is likely the document Parmentier sent to the Société d’Horticulture de Paris in 1829, and it
  31 KB (3,711 words) - 21:03, August 25, 2021
• Elgin Botanic Garden
  (view text). Inderwick was involved in Hosack's plan to scientifically document the plants at Elgin in “AMERICAN BOTANY, or a ‘Flora of the United States
  92 KB (13,119 words) - 22:42, August 16, 2021
• State House Yard
  but was evidently complete by 1752, when Nicholas Scull and George Heap documented the presence of “a high Wall” enclosing the Yard in their Map of Philadelphia
  41 KB (5,292 words) - 18:37, August 30, 2021
• Project Introduction
  and one hundred notable People; more than 1700 images, each with detailed object pages; enriched archival materials; and a bibliographic feature that links
  19 KB (2,729 words) - 18:14, August 30, 2021
• The Evidence of American Garden History
  examined only a small fraction of the documents, citations, and evidence of landscape attitudes that exist. When these documents do not fully represent the majority
  43 KB (5,676 words) - 16:27, September 1, 2021
• Modes of Representations in American Landscape and Garden Design (section Design Documents: Sketches, Working Drawings, Presentation Drawings)
  represent an existing place or object relates, somewhat as a verbal description relates, to an aspect of the place or object to which it refers. The graphic
  69 KB (8,394 words) - 16:28, September 1, 2021
• Writing the Landscape
  recorded in the documentary record in any more detail than in a deed or court document. Likewise, while colonial newspapers contained advertisements by and for
  160 KB (19,096 words) - 16:27, September 1, 2021
• Harmony Grove
  Humphry Marshall, whose neighboring botanic garden reportedly provided the model for Harmony Grove (view text). A writer for a local newspaper claimed in
  34 KB (4,382 words) - 20:25, August 19, 2021

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