Shaping the American Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project

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An indispensable reference work that may also be read simply for pleasure of discovery.

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University of Virginia Press, 2009
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Charles Birnbaum Interview - HomeGrown episode from Jan 31, 2010 on WFPL

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Feb 1 2010
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WFPL 89.3FM, Louisville, KY
HomeGrown 01/31/10 – Cultural Landscapes & Dupont Homes and Gardens

HomeGrown [a weekly radio talk show on WFPL Louisville] dips into history this week with a discussion on preserving our historical and cultural landscapes – and the preservation of some of the nation’s great estate homes and gardens. Charles Birnbaum of the Cultural Landscape Foundation discusses the importance of preserving community properties, such as Louisville’s Olmsted Parks.  To hear the full interview with Charles click HERE

Asticou Azalea Gardens

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Designed by Charles K. Savage, owner of the Asticou Inn and designer of the gardens at Thuya Lodge, it was made poissbile through funds provided by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and plants garnered from Beatrix Farrand’s dismantled Reef Point Gardens including two of the oldest specimens in the garden, a weeping hemlock just north of the Main Bridge and an Alberta spruce near the North Bridge. The garden was constructed between 1956 and 1957.

Looking Ahead at the Cooper-Hewitt

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Bill Moggridge’s appointment as director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the New York-based Smithsonian Institution museum, received extensive coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere.

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Crystal Lake Park

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The Urbana Park District was formed in 1907. The first park that was designed and laid out under this new authority was Crystal Lake Park. Measuring just over 90 acres, including nearly 60 sylvan acres known as Busey Woods, this picturesque landscape primarily follows the alignment and contours of the Saline Branch of Crystal Lake – largely the result of a 1906 dredging project that led to the present-day water feature.

Thuya Gardens

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Thuya Lodge and Garden in Northeast Harbor, Maine, served as the hilltop summer home of Boston landscape gardener and landscape engineer, Joseph Henry Curtis. The gardens, developed from 1880 to 1928, are nestled within 200 acres of surrounding woodland. Asticou Terraces, a series of steps and resting terraces, which Curtis built up the steep hillside, provide viewing opportunities back to Northeast Harbor.

Robert W. Griffith

Submitted by rgriffith on Dec 21 2009
Ex-Officio, Legal Counsel

Robert Griffith is a partner in the Louisville, Kentucky, office of Stites & Harbison, PLLC a law firm with over 260 lawyers in offices located throughout the southeast. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Centre College, a Master of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky. Mr. Griffith began his career in the New York offices of White & Case. He is a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Kentucky Superlawyers, and Chambers USA’s Best Lawyers for Business.

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Stites & Harbison, PLLC
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Louisville, KY

Melanie Macchio

Submitted by mmacchio on Dec 16 2009
Senior Project Manager

Melanie Macchio is Senior Project Manager for The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Prior to joining TCLF,  she worked for private preservation firms in La Jolla, California, and, more recently, Washington, D.C. She has managed several large-scale historic resource survey projects including the Uptown San Diego Historic Resources Survey and the Purcellville, Virginia, National Historic District Survey, as well as intensive multiple property surveys for the City of Riverside, California. Ms.

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Washington, DC

Andrea Hill

Submitted by admin on Dec 16 2009
Project Manager

Andrea Hill is a Project Manager for The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Ms. Hill holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Historic Preservation/Architectural Conservation from Roger Williams University School of Art, Architecture and Historic Preservation in Rhode Island. She has over 20 years of project management experience, having worked in the private sector as a manager then later as an architectural conservator before working as a grants administrator/architectural historian at the National Park Service.

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Washington, DC

Nancy Slade

Submitted by nslade on Dec 16 2009
Project Manager

Nancy Slade comes to The Cultural Landscape Foundation after working at the National Park Service, Historic Landscape Initiative (HLI) in Washington, D.C. There her job responsibilities included management of the Index of Designed American Landscapes. She also coordinated several HLI publications, including Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II (2004), Design with Culture (2005), and Shaping the American Landscape (2009).

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Washington, DC
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