Bibliography: How to Evaluate and Nominate Designed Historic Landscapes, National Register of Historic Places Bulletin (Nrb 18)

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Recommended Bibliography and Sources

List of all National Register Bulletins

Books and Articles

American Society of Landscape Architects. Landscape Architecture, Preservation Leaps the Garden Wall. Vol. 71, No. 1. Louisville, KY: ASLA, January 1981.

Balmori, Diana, Diane K. McGuire and Elanor M. McPeck. Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes: Her Gardens and Campuses. Sagaponeck, NY: Sagapress, 1985.

Betts, Edwin Morris, ed. Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book: 1766-1824. Philadelphia: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 22, 1944.

Cleveland, Horace William Shaler. Public Grounds in Chicago: How to Give Them Character and Expression. Chicago: C.D. Lakey, 1869.

-----. and Backus, William and Samuel D. Village and Farm Cottages. Watkins Glen, NY: American Life Foundation, 1976.

Downing, A.J. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening Adapted to North America. New York: 1841.

Draper, Earle Sumner. "Southern Textile Village Planning," Landscape Architecture 8 (October 1927): 1-28.

Earle, Alice Morse. Old-Time Gardens. New York: Gale, 1968.

Eaton, Leonard K. Landscape Artist in America: The Life and Work of Jens Jensen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Eliot, Charles W. Landscape Architect. Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1902.

Fein, Albert. Frederick Law Olmsted and the American Environmental Tradition. New York: Braziller, 1972.

Favretti, Rudy J. and Favretti, Joy Putnam. Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1978.

Howard, Sir Ebenezer. Garden Cities for Tomorrow. London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1946.

Hubbard, Henry Vincent, and Kimball, Theodora. An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929.

Hyams, Edward. Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.

Isle, John. Our National Park Policy: A Critical History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1961.

Jellicoe, Geoffrey and Susan. The Landscape of Man. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975.

Jensen, Jens. Siftings. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1939.

Leighton, Ann. Early American Gardens. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

-----. American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.

Loudon, J.C. The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838.

-----. The Landscape Gardener and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton, Esq. London: Longman and Company, 1840.

-----. The Villa Gardener, 2nd ed. London: Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1850.

Melnick, Robert. Cultural Landscapes: Rural Historic Districts in the National Park System. Washington, DC: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1984.

Muir, John. Our National Parks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901.

Newton, Norman T. Design on the Land. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Olmsted, F.L. Forty Years of Landscape Architecture, 1: Early Years, ed. and Central Park, eds., Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Theodora Hubbard Kimball. Cambridge and London: 1973.

Platt, Charles A. Italian Gardens. New York: Harper & Bros., 1894.

Repton, Humphrey. The Art of Landscape Gardening, ed. John Nolen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907.

Robinson, Charles Mulford. The Improvement of Towns and Cities. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901.

-----. Modern Civic Art. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.

Simonds, John. Landscape Architecture, The Shaping of Man's Natural Environment. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961.

Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Granite Garden. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1984.

Weidenmann, Jacob. Victorian Landscape Gardening: A Facsimile of Jacob Weidenmann's Beautifying Country Homes, introduction by David Schuyler. Watkins Glen, NY: The American Life Foundation, 1978.

Wyman, Donald. Shrubs and Vines for American Gardens. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1965.

Wyman, Donald. Trees for American Gardens. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1965.

Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1982.

Journals

From time to time the following journals may publish articles pertaining to the history of landscape architecture.

Bulletin. (The Association for Preservation Technology)

Landscape Journal.

Landscape Architecture.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Collections

The following collections may contain original drawings, manuscripts, correspondence, etc., that may be of assistance. The list is not definitive, but is intended as a representative sample of the kind of primary sources available for some historic landscapes.

Ames, IA: Iowa State University. School of Design. Warren Manning Archives.

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan. Jens Jensen Papers.

Berkeley, CA: University of California. Beatrix Farrand Papers.

Brookline, MA: Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. Archives. Files.

Cambridge, MA: Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University. John Charles Olmsted Collection.

Lowell, MA: University of Lowell. Warren Manning Archives.

Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks.

Washington, DC: Library of Congress. Frederick Law Olmsted Papers.

Washington, DC: Library of Congress. The Olmsted Associates Papers.

Washington, DC: Library of Congress. The American Society of Landscape Architects Archives.

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