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Welcome to the History of Early American Landscape Design Database

The site provides information about the history of gardens in America, from the early colonial period to around 1850, to an audience of scholars and specialists. The goal of this site is not only to provide a database of information about, for example, particular sites, images or people, but to provide a large corpus of textual and visual data that can be comparatively examined by scholars, enabling them to investigate landscapes in dynamic contexts and via materials which are rare and difficult to access. Because of the flexible nature of the online format, scholars will be able to consider landscapes as part of a larger set of processes—social, economic, political—rather than only as static sites. This site is a companion to the publication Keywords in American Landscape Design (Yale University Press, 2010)

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Keywords

Alcove	Alley	Ancient style	Arbor
Arboretum	Arcade	Arch	Avenue
Aviary/Bird cage/Birdhouse	Basin	Bath/Bathhouse	Bed
Beehive	Belvedere/Prospect tower/Observatory	Border	Botanic garden
Bower	Bowling green	Bridge	Canal
Cascade/Cataract/Waterfall	Cemetery/Burying ground/Burial ground	Chinese manner	Clump
Column/Pillar	Common	Conservatory	Copse
Deer park	Dovecote/Pigeon house	Drive	Dutch style
Edging	Eminence	English style	Espalier
Fall/Falling garden	Fence	Ferme ornée/Ornamental farm	Flower garden
Fountain	French style	Gardenesque	Gate/Gateway
Geometric style	Green	Greenhouse	Grotto
Grove	Ha-Ha/Sunk fence	Hedge	Hermitage
Hothouse	Icehouse	Jet	Kitchen garden
Labyrinth	Lake	Landscape gardening	Lawn
Mall	Meadow	Modern style/Natural style	Mound	Mount
Nursery	Obelisk	Orangery	Orchard
Park	Parterre	Pavilion	Piazza
Picturesque	Plantation	Pleasure ground/Pleasure garden	Plot/Plat
Pond	Porch	Portico	Pot	Promenade
Prospect	Public garden/Public ground	Quarter	Rockwork/Rockery
Rustic style	Seat	Shrubbery	Square
Statue	Summerhouse	Sundial	Temple
Terrace/Slope	Thicket	Trellis	Vase/Urn
Veranda	View/Vista	Walk	Wall
Wilderness	Wood/Woods	Yard

About this Site

Project Introduction

Statement on Authorities

Project Bibliography

Credits