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• National Mall
  of his design for the building that would ultimately house the Smithsonian Institution, Robert Mills submitted a comprehensive plan for a great public
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• Robert Mills
  revised ten years later when he designed a Botanic Garden and the Smithsonian Institution building on the Mall. Mills’s meticulously detailed 1841 plans conceived
  31 KB (4,335 words) - 20:13, August 18, 2021
• Fountain
  his “Water Nymph and Bittern.” Robert Mills's proposal for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC (1841), shows two aligned fountains anchoring
  68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
• Avenue
  gardening.” [Fig. 13] Mills, Robert, c. 1841, describing the proposed Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, in a letter to Robert Dale Owen (Scott, ed., 1990:
  89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
• Porch
  inscribed the term porte cochère on his unexecuted design for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC [See Fig. 6]. He includes porches for the side
  26 KB (3,352 words) - 10:14, April 6, 2021
• Lawn
  is located in front of the White House. Weingärtner & Sarony, “Smithsonian Institution, from the North East,” in Robert Dale Owen, Hints on Public Architecture
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• Belfield
  Willson Peale (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press for the Smithsonian Institution, 1991), view on Zotero. Lillian B. Miller et al., eds., The Selected
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• Temple
  C. Ward (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press for the Smithsonian Institution, 1991), 272, view on Zotero. William L. Beiswanger, “The Temple
  44 KB (5,866 words) - 14:29, April 1, 2021
• Pleasure ground/Pleasure garden
  Washington, DC. The latter included a pleasure ground in front of the Smithsonian Institution, to be filled with ornamental plantings and a monumental park. A
  58 KB (7,874 words) - 14:42, March 10, 2021
• Botanic garden
  and the Smithsonian Fund be held ready to pay for their purchase and cost of transportation.” Owen, Robert Dale, 1846, describing the Smithsonian Institution
  63 KB (8,784 words) - 14:42, March 8, 2021
• Statue
  and the figure of William Pitt, restored and preserved in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The figure is rather stiff and clearly belongs to
  60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
• Piazza
  Notman, John, December 26, 1846, describing his designs for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (quoted in Greiff 1979: 117) “No. I, is the ground
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• View/Vista
  Willson Peale (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press for the Smithsonian Institution, 1991), view on Zotero. Elbridge Gerry Jr., The Diary of Elbridge
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• Shrubbery
  of National Thrift and Empire, c. 1847. Weingärtner & Sarony, “Smithsonian Institution, from the North East,” in Robert Dale Owen, Hints on Public Architecture
  81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021
• Conservatory
  and rear entrances [Fig. 6]. John Notman’s 1846 design for the Smithsonian Institution [Fig. 7] also featured both projecting conservatory and greenhouse
  62 KB (9,081 words) - 13:02, April 1, 2021
• Greenhouse
  Notman, John, December 26, 1846, describing his designs for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (quoted in Greiff 1979: 119) “No. 4 is the south
  122 KB (17,951 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
• Walk
  Adams and John Quincy Adams Adams, 1849. Weingärtner & Sarony, “Smithsonian Institution, from the North East,” in Robert Dale Owen, Hints on Public Architecture
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Andrew Jackson Downing
  urn has been located in the Enid A. Haupt Garden behind the Smithsonian Castle. Smithsonian Gardens website, http://www.gardens.si.edu/our-gardens/downing-urn
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• The Evidence of American Garden History
  David C. Ward (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press for the Smithsonian Institution, 1991), 267–81, view on Zotero. O’Malley in Miller and Ward 1991
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• Modes of Representations in American Landscape and Garden Design
  Plain Painters: Making Sense of American Folk Art (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988), view on Zotero; and Carolyn Weekley, “Defining American
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