Arthur A. Shurcliff
Design, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape
Published on 1. January 2014
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-1-952620-23-2 (ISBN)
Description
In 1928, Arthur A. Shurcliff (1870–1957) began what became one of the most important examples of the American Colonial Revival landscape—Colonial Williamsburg, a project that stretched into the 1940s and included town and highway planning as well as residential and institutional gardens. Elizabeth Hope Cushing, in this richly illustrated biography, traces Shurcliff's route from early years and planning work in Boston to his largest and most significant contribution to American landscape architecture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1168 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-952620-23-2 (9781952620232)
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ELIZABETH HOPE CUSHING is a landscape historian. She has written cultural landscape history reports for the Taft Art Museum in Cincinnati, the National Park Service, and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and has contributed essays to Pioneers of American Landscape Design; Design with Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage; Shaping the American Landscape; and Drawing Toward Home. She is coauthor of Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts (LALH, 2013).