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The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) connects people to places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.
STEWARDSHIP: Landslide
The goal of Landslide is to draw immediate and lasting attention to threatened landscapes and unique features, and to encourage informed, community-based stewardship decisions. Get involved.
New York City, NY
United StatesServing as an outdoor community space since 1882, the one-acre site first hosted the Free School Society’s Public-School No.5, which provided free night classes for people of color in addition to regular schooling.
Pittsburgh, PA
United StatesFirst conceived in 1868 as a pastoral addition to Allegheny Commons, this body of water was converted into a recreational lake in the early twentieth century.
PLACES: What's Out There
This searchable database raises public awareness of the rich diversity and interconnectedness of our shared landscape heritage. Spanning more than two centuries of American landscapes, the database is searchable by landscape name, locale, designer, type, and style.
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PEOPLE: Designers and Stewards
Pioneers of American Landscape Design® chronicles the lives and careers of those who have designed our gardens, parks, streets, campuses, cemeteries, suburbs, and the innumerable other environments in which we live.
Born in Snow Hill, Alabama, Purifoy received a B.S. in education from the Alabama State Teachers...
Born in New York City and raised in a patrician world, Coffin pursued a career in landscape...
Born in Madison, Minnesota, Peterson earned a B.A. in architecture from the University of Minnesota...
