Landslide 2011: The Landscape I Love, Related Landscapes
In 1839 David Barrow purchased the 250-acre Home Place estate from his father Bartholomew. When David married Susan Woolfolk in 1847 the couple renamed and renovated the property, expanding the existing residence into a Gothic Revival-style...
In 1891 Portland Mayor William Ladd proposed the layout of a 126-acre neighborhood, Oregon’s first planned community. Built on a rectangular plot of gently-sloping farmland, the design called for diagonal streets which form an X, with a...
Designed in 1905, the McMillan Reservoir Sand Filtration Site was an innovative and beautiful solution to the need for clean drinking water in the city. The 25-acre site included a variety of above and below grade technical apparatus, sand bins...
In 1895 Commissioner Murphy of the newly formed Essex County Park Commission proposed the development of a park in Southern Newark as part of the country’s first county park system. By 1899 the commission had purchased 265 acres in 12...
Constructed in 1959, this private house and garden was designed by architect Rozier Dedwylder and landscape architect James C. Rose. The project was developed collaboratively, with strong connections between the interior spaces of the house and...
