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Aalto, Alvar, 257

Abbotsford, 67

Académie Julian, 117

Adams, Abigail, 39, 46

Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 147

Adams, Henry, 118, 128, 147, 168, 192

Adams, John, 3, 37, 39, 41–42, 43, 46, 47, 49, 62, 398

Adams, John Quincy, 62, 63

Addams, Jane, 155, 189

Addison, Joseph, 28

Adirondack Park, 99

Adler, Dankmar, 205

adobe houses, 284

Adopting an Abandoned Farm (book), 134

Aesthetic movement, 178

agriculture, 80–81, 83, 136

American colonial era and, xii, 10–12, 45

British gentry and, 19, 21, 33–34, 41

contemporary return to, xvi, 396–400

as cultivated nature, 303

hobby farming and, 19, 21, 81, 180

industrialization of, 99, 110, 397–98, 400

precorporate system of, 396–97

“scientific” theories of, 44, 66, 91

suburban displacement of, 105

Ala Moana Park, 317

ALCOA Forecast Garden, 271, 272, 275

American Art Union, 90

American Museum of Natural History, 32, 374

American Renaissance, 120, 164

American Revolution, 36, 44

American Society of Landscape Architects, 193

ancient gardens, xiv, 18, 21, 22, 72

Anderson, Lars, 196

Anderson Park, 380

Angelus Temple, 255

anti-Semitism, 145–46, 149

Apollo missions, 383

Appleby, Joyce, 6

Appledore Island, 134, 189

Aptos garden, 253

arboretums, 153–54, 156, 165, 192, 197–98

Arcadian ideal, xvi, 44, 47, 48, 53, 85, 132, 281, 333, 354

call for return to, 77–80, 180, 400

“leftover,” 347

local food movement and, 397

nostalgia for, 129–34, 202–3, 340, 371, 393–94

reaction against, 327–28, 341

suburbanization and, 83

Arcosanti, 309

Arizona, 212, 254, 309, 318, 382, 383–84

Armacost & Royston, 289, 290

Armour family, 162, 172, 175–76

Arnold Arboretum, 192, 197–98

Artforum (magazine), 324, 330

Art Institute of Chicago, 374

Art Nouveau, 158, 179

Artois, Comte d’, 37

Arts & Crafts movement, 176–234, 388

birth of, 176

Californian expression of, 221, 222–23, 229–30, 232, 233, 286, 310, 385, 386, 388, 390, 395

contemporary gardens and, 362, 363

contradictions in, 176, 179–81, 188

elements of, 198, 206, 221

gardens of, 181–203, 207, 232, 363

Japanese influences on, 158

manifesto of, 177–78, 286

modernism and, 176, 178, 206, 217–18, 233, 282, 394–95

persistence of modes of, 233–34

style flexibility of, 203

Ashbee, C. R., 179, 189

Aspen Art Institute, 380

Astor, John Jacob, 146, 147

Astor, William Waldorf, 151

Astroturf, 340

Austen, Jane, 67–68

Azusa Street Revival, 255

 

Babson House, 209

back-to-the-land movement, 19–20, 179–80, 309, 401

Bacon, Francis, 28, 183

Bacon’s Castle, 9

Bagatelle (garden), 37

Bagel Garden, 337–38, 339, 341

Baghdad Green Zone, 383

Bali, 395

Ballard, J. G., The Crystal World, 325, 326

Banham, Reyner, 258

Bank of America, 311

barbeque grills, 240, 247, 280

Barbizon School, 117, 132

Barcelona Pavilion (1929), 254, 298

Barnsdall, Aline, 215, 255

Barnum, P. T., 114

Barr, Alfred, 274

Barrow Court garden, 183

Bartram, John, 134

Bauhaus, 252, 254, 268, 269, 298, 380, 388

Baxter, Sylvester, 224

Bay Area (San Francisco), 221, 243–46, 248–49, 304–9

Bayer, Herbert, Grass Mound, 380

Baylis, Douglas, 247, 275, 284

beautification campaign (1964), 328–29

beautiful, 71, 72–73, 75, 80, 82

picturesque vs., 117

Beaux Arts, 154–55, 198, 206, 249, 297, 298

bedding schemes, 107, 147–48, 222, 361

of annuals, 65, 69, 107, 115, 116

critics of, 181, 184, 185, 186

of perennials, 187–88, 362, 367

whimsical shapes of, 65, 69

Beecher, Catharine, 82

Beecher, Henry Ward, 82, 83, 132

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale), 321

Bentham, Jeremy, 69

Berenson, Bernard, 149–50

Berkeley (CA), 396, 400

Berkeley, William, 9

Beverley, Robert, 10

Beverly Hills (CA), 174–75

Bierstadt, Albert, 95

Bigelow, Kathryn, 401

Big Food, 397, 400

Biltmore Estate, xiii, 151–54

biomorphic gardens, 305

Biosphere 2, 383–84

Birkenhead Park, 86, 91–92, 93

Blackheath Park, 87

Blaise Castle, 68

Blake, Peter, God’s Own Junkyard, 329–30

Blavatsky, Madame, 255

Blenheim Palace, 40, 42

Bliss, Mildred, 199–200

Bliss, Robert Woods, 199–200

Blithewood, 73, 74

Blomfield, Reginald, 184–86, 199

Bluemel, Kurt, 366–67

Boboli Gardens, 139

Bodleian Plate, 14–15, 14

Bois de Boulogne, 37

Boleyn, Anne, 151

bonseiki garden, 322

Boote, Francis, 137

borai garden, 313

Borglum, Gutzon, 315

Boston, 83, 89, 102, 129, 149–50, 164, 374

Boston Public Library, 120

botanical gardens, 156–57, 165, 202

private, 364

botany, 9–10

Boutin, Simon-Charles, 37

Box Hill, 144

Boyle, Robert, 28

Brace, Charles Loring, 91

Brancusi, Constantin, 316, 320

Breakers, 146

Breck, Joseph, 82

Breuer, Marcel, 304

bricolage, 234

Bridgeport (CT), 114

“broken windows” theory, 364

Brookline (MA), 102, 123, 143, 154, 192, 196

Brooklyn (NY), 88–89, 90, 96–97, 98, 99

Brooklyn Bridge, 115

Brown, A. Page, 221

Brown, Capability (Lancelot), 66, 69, 93, 97, 303, 354, 371, 378

style elements of, 115–16

Brown, Denise Scott, 330

brownfields, 367–68

Bryant, William Cullen, 87, 93

Bryant Park, 364

Buddhism, 159, 162

Budding, Edward, 69

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 127

Buffalo Commons, 368–69

Bunshaft, Gordon, 319–22, 359

Burke, Edmund, 82

Burle Marx, Roberto, 391

Burlington, Lord, 31, 32, 36, 40, 44, 45, 65

Burne-Jones, Edward, 178, 186

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, The Secret Garden, 226

Burnham, Daniel, 123–27, 154–55, 162, 165–66

Burnham & Root, 124

Burtos, Pamela, 384–85

Bussey Institute, 198

Byrd, William, II, 8, 9, 10, 23

Byron, Christopher, 349, 355

Byron, Lord, 63

 

Cabinet of Curiosities, 18

Cable, George Washington, 135, 136

Cabot, Anne, 362, 363

Cabot, Frank, 362, 386

Cadwalader, John Lambert, 192

Cage, John, 308

Calder, Alexander, 336

Caldwell, Alfred, 300

California, 95–96, 110, 189, 218–34, 235–90

architectural eclecticism and, 172–73, 282–84, 385

Asians and, 160–64, 166–67, 168

birth of universal style in, xvi

garden styles and, 160–62, 161, 171–72, 221–22, 228–31, 235–40, 239, 266–68, 278, 289–90, 384–91

golf courses and, 379–80, 382

local food movement and, 396–97

population growth of, 235, 270

California Volunteers monument, 165

Calvinism, 129, 133

campus architecture and landscape design, 202, 223, 305, 320, 343

cannas, 222, 387, 390

Capitol, U.S., 52, 63, 154

car ownership, 250–51, 295

carpet bedding. See bedding schemes carports, 247

Carr, Fred, 237

Carrère & Hastings, 148, 223

Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, 328

Casa del Herrero, 228–29

Case Study house, 235

castles, 114, 115, 151–52

Catskill Mountains, 59, 60

Caversham, 40

cemeteries, landscaped, 88–90

Central Park, 18, 58, 91–95, 96, 97, 165, 381, 383, 403

plan for, 94–95

restoration of, 363–64, 365

Central Park Conservancy, 364

Century Club, 116

Chace, Clyde, 255

Chambers, William, 30, 50

Chandler, Phil, 386

chaparral, 219, 237, 346

Charleston (SC), 10, 34, 204

Chase Manhattan Bank, 321

Château de Blois, 152

Chauncey Williams House, 208

cherry trees, Japanese, 168

Chevy Chase (MD), 162, 175

Chez Panisse (Berkeley restaurant), 396

Chicago, 136, 152, 155, 189, 277

architecture and, 189, 205–12

parks and, 209–11, 372–75, 402

See also World’s Columbian Exposition

Chicago Arts and Crafts Society, 189

Chicago Civic Center, 336

Chicago School, 211–12

Child, Julia, 351, 354

childhood memories, 393–94

children’s literature, 226, 227

Chiswick, 31, 32, 40, 44, 45, 65

Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, 25

Christo, Running Fence, 343–44

Church, Frederic Edwin, 111–15, 230

Natural Bridge, Virginia, 111–12, 112

Church, Thomas, 242, 243–49, 251–53, 263, 268, 270, 271, 272, 275, 284, 289, 302, 305, 320

Gardens Are for People, 243, 247

Your Private World, 246, 281

Churchill, Randolph, 151

Churchill, Winston, 151

Churrigueresque, 228

Cicero, 20, 32

cities, xvi, 53, 155–56, 165, 334–35

American distrust of, 48, 77–79, 110, 250, 281

centerless, 250

growth of, 250

immigrants and, 90–91, 118, 129, 155

inner-city decline and, 106, 278, 403

inner-ring garden suburbs and, 86, 99, 100–105

mixed public space of, 278

neighborhoods and, 306

19th century move to, 81, 83, 98, 129

parks as therapeutic relief in, 94–95, 97–98, 100

pastoralism vs., 99, 340

pastoral urbanism and, 400–404

physical hazards in, 104

planning and design of, 306, 310–11

poverty and, 155

preservation and, 306, 328, 370–71

public spaces and, 302–14

racial tensions and, 329

return to, 403

City Beautiful movement, 155–56, 166

city parks. See public parks

Civil War, English, 20–21

Civil War, U.S., 95, 105, 114, 129, 203

Claremont, 40

classicism

appeal in America of, 63, 120–22, 124, 129–30, 132, 144, 164

as emphasis on form, 243

garden models of, 21, 22, 27–30

Jefferson and, 24–26, 43, 129, 130

picturesque landscape and, 32, 33

symbolism of, 48–49

See also neoclassical style

Cluey family, 266

Cobham, Lord, 65

Cochise golf course (AZ), 382

Codman, Henry, 124

Coffin, Marian, 197, 198, 199, 200–201

Cohn, Max, 166

Cole, Thomas, 60, 96, 109, 111

Landscape, 61

collections, 150, 156–57, 165

colonial America, 11–14, 121

restorations and, 134–35, 203–4

Colorado River, 382–83

Columbia University, 364

Columbus, Christopher, 123, 124

Columbus Park, 209

community gardens, 400

commuter railroads, 83–84, 100

Conan, Michel, 349

conceptualists, 341, 371

condominiums, suburban, 105

Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, 320

conservationism, 211

Conservatory Garden, 363–64, 365

Constable, John, 117

“Contemporary Landscape Architecture and Its Sources” (1937 exhibit), 251

cookbooks, 351

Cooke, Jay, 115, 119, 121

Coonley House, 208

Cooper, Fenimore, II, 196

Cooper, James Fenimore, 60, 79, 132

Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 79, 84, 101

Cooper, William, 79

Cooperstown (NY), 79, 196

Corbusier, Le, 252, 254, 258, 259

Cornish (NH), 120, 121–22

gardens of, 119, 121, 195–96

corporate landscape, 107, 302, 311, 319–22, 335, 336, 373–74

Cosway, Maria, 38–39

Cotswold Hills, 179

cottage garden. See Grandmother’s garden

cottages, bracketed, 74, 77, 78, 105, 154

Council, Lucile, 201

country clubs, 280–81, 394

country house, 19–20, 34, 81, 83, 85, 146

American modern updates of, 197–98, 301, 310, 354, 357, 358, 394–95

British estates and, 19–20, 21, 28, 33–34, 66, 187–88

Downing definition of, 75–76

farmhouse restorations as, 134

Palladian design of, 31, 45–47, 301, 302

Country party (Britain). See Whigs

Cowper, William, 66–67

Craftsman (magazine), 189, 190

Craftsman bungalow, 394

Cram, Ralph Adams, 189, 202, 223

Cranbrook Academy of Art, 299

Croly, Herbert, 195, 202–3

Crowfield, 35

Crowley, Aleister, 255

Crystal Palace, 91–92

Cubism, 252–53, 270, 318

Custis, John, 8, 15

Cypress Hill Cemetery, 89

 

Dance Deck, 305

Darwin, Charles, 72, 183

Dater, Henry, 229

Davis, Alexander Jackson, 73–74, 77, 86, 100, 114, 115, 327

Declaration of Independence, xiii, 3, 10, 37

Declaration of Rights (France), 37

decorative arts, 158, 178, 180, 186

De Forest, Elizabeth, 249

De Forest, Lockwood, Jr., 229, 230–31, 249, 251, 385, 386

De Forest, Lockwood, Sr., 230

Delaney, Topher, 341

Descartes, René, 28

desert, 267–68, 381, 382–83

Destailleur, Gabriel-Hippolyte, 152

de Stijl movement, 252, 257, 301, 402

detached houses, 277, 285, 295

Devonshire, Duke of, 86

Dewey, George, 163, 165

DeWint, Caroline. See Downing, Caroline DeWint

Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Garden, 374

Dias Felicitas. See Val Verde

Dickens, Charles, 79

Dickinson, Emily, 132, 219

Director’s House, 255

Disraeli, Benjamin, 46–47

Dobyns, Winifred Starr, 387

Dodge House, 256

domestic ideal

Arts & Crafts movement and, 180

gender roles and, 82–83, 89, 94, 401

Stewart homekeeping and, 352, 358

Donaldson, Robert, 73, 77

Donnell, Otto Dewey, Jr., 247

Donnell garden, 242–47, 244, 245, 253, 272, 305, 320

Douglas, Ann, 82–83

Douglas Park, 209

Downing, Andrew Jackson, 57–65, 70–77, 78, 85–94, 115, 131, 132, 133, 135, 142, 154, 184, 204, 354, 401

on beautiful and picturesque, 71, 72–73, 75, 80, 82

critics of, 77

death in steamship fire of, 57–58, 91

legacy of, 58, 93, 102–7

outlook of, 61–65, 180, 190

Poe parody of theories of, 108–10

Stewart compared with, 357, 361

writings of

The Architecture of Country Houses, 86

Cottage Residences, 77

Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 80

Horticulturalist, 85

“Rural Embellishments,” 59–60

A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, 58, 70–77, 82, 102

Downing, Caroline DeWint, 62–63, 64, 93

Drake, Edwin, 114

Druse, Ken, 364–66

Dumbarton Oaks, 199–200, 386

site plan of, 201

duPont, Alfred, II, 148

duPont, Henry Algernon, 197

duPont, Henry Francis, 197–99

duPont family, 198

Dutch gardens, 9, 15, 21, 29, 32–33

Dwight, Timothy, 80

Dye, Pete, 378

 

Earle, Alice Morse, 189

earthworks, 316, 318, 380, 381

“Eastern monopoly,” 129

Eastern Parkway, 99

Easton, Bob, 173

Echo Park, 255

Eckbo, Garrett, 247, 253, 268–76, 279, 281, 284, 289, 298, 299, 305

Landscape for Living, 274

“Small Gardens of the City,” 269, 270, 280

Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 117, 146

ecoscore, 307

Sea Ranch, 308

edible landscapes, 398

Edible Schoolyard, 400

Edward VII, king of Great Britain, 226–27

Eichler Homes, 281

Eiffel, Gustave, 128

El Alisal, 221

Elder, Walter, 132, 133

electricity, 124, 127, 168

El Fureidis, 225–26, 226, 227, 228, 229

Elgin, Lord, 63

Elizabethan style, 16, 17–20, 74, 183

Ellwood, Craig, 281

El Mirador, 172, 229

Elvaston Castle, 123

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, xiv, 75, 77, 79, 84, 190, 303, 403

“Home,” 85

“Nature,” 60–61

enclosures, British, 19, 33, 66

Enfield Chase, 40

Englischer Garden, 87–88

English gardens, xii, 8, 9, 15–22, 26–28, 66–70, 93, 100, 159, 181–82

as American influence, 5, 30, 34–36, 39–40, 62, 65, 85–86

cottage gardens and, 132, 181

elements of, 387–88

lawns and, 377, 381

political symbolism and, 20–21, 27–28, 32, 33, 41–43, 48–49, 188

See also Arts & Crafts movement; picturesque; Victorian garden

Enlightenment, xii, 3, 28, 42, 53, 94

Romantic reaction against, 177

Ennis-Brown House, 255

environmentalism, 328–29, 338, 366–68, 377, 397–98, 401

Erie Canal, 59, 80

Esalen Institute, 309

Esherick, Joseph, 309

Esso corporate headquarters, 373–74

Esther-Place, 40

Eucalyptus Hill, 173

Evelyn, John, 13, 22

Evergreens Cemetery, 89

exotic plants, 65, 86, 107, 115, 148, 156, 157, 158, 221, 222, 228, 229, 231, 362–63, 384, 390

critics of, 186

searches for, 69

 

Fallingwater, 215–18, 216, 267, 282

farmers’ markets, 396

farming. See agriculture

Farragut, David, 120, 199–200

Farrand, Beatrix Jones, 140, 191–95, 197, 199–201, 202, 208, 386

Farrand, Max, 193

Faulkner Farm, 143, 144

Fauquier, Francis, 8

Federalists, 43, 63, 129

femininity, 48, 82, 132, 162

feminism, 356, 357

Fenway Court, 149–50

Ferris, George Washington, 127

Fillmore, Millard, 91

First National Bank (Ft. Worth), 336

Flagler, Henry, 221

Flavin, Dan, 338

food culture, 396–97, 399

Ford, Edsel, 361

Forest Service, 153

formal garden

Downing dismissal of, 71, 72

Farrand and, 193–95, 194

modernist elements and, 252

naturalistic garden vs., 185

Olmsted dislike of, 116

reinstatement of elements of, 65, 67, 68, 183, 184–88, 197–99, 244–45, 257

Fort Ross, 309

fountains. See waterworks

Fouquet, Nicolas, 152

Foursquare Gospel Church, 255

François I, king of France, 152

Franklin, Benjamin, 37

Frascati villas, 121

Freeway Park, 311

Frémont, John Charles, 164

French, Daniel Chester, Republic, 125

French Colonial Revival, 362

French curve, 249, 253

French gardens, 4–5, 21, 22, 37–38, 42, 152–53, 253, 372

French Revolution, 4–5, 37, 117

Freud, Sigmund, 264

Frick Mansion, 148

frontier, 59, 80–81, 114, 163

closing of, 127, 203

Greek Revival architecture and, 63

landscape architect demand and, 334–35

ruining of landscape and, 328

Fuller, Buckminster, 316

functionalism, 245, 300

Fynmere, 196

 

Garden Club of Virginia, 203

gardenesque style, 65, 69–70, 106–7, 115, 132, 147–48, 222

critics of, 181, 185

definition of, 70

naïve reversion to, 347

Garden of Cosmic Speculation, 377, 377

Garden of Eden, xiv, 19, 60, 109, 327, 383, 384, 404

gardens, xi–xv

changed concept of, 296–97

definition of, xi–xii

earliest American, 8–9

elements of modern, 252–54

as indicators of social change, xii–xiii

personal preferences in, xii, 391–94

political implications of, 41–43, 48

purpose of, 188

as status symbols, 361

as stress relief, 85

garden suburbs, 86, 99, 100–105, 278, 403

Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 123, 149–50, 162

Garfield Park, 209

gated communities, 100–101, 187, 382, 394

Gehry, Frank, 386–90, 402

General Motors Technical Center, 302

gentleman farmer, 19, 21, 81

George III, king of Great Britain, 66

George Washington Bridge, 56

Georgian style, 63, 120, 199

Georgica Pond, 359

German parks, 87–88

German Pavilion. See Barcelona Pavilion

Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), 178

gestalt theory, 264, 307

Getty Center Central Garden, 342–47

Getty Trust, 346

Ghiradelli Square, 305–6

Gibbs, James, 23, 24, 45

Gibralter (Sharp estate), 198

Gifford, Kathy Lee, 353

Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado, 159

Gilded Age, xiii, 114–69, 361, 363, 364

Gill, Irving, 254, 256, 283

Gillespie, James Waldron, 224–26, 229

Gilmour, Leonie, 315–16

Gilpin, William, 30

giocchi d’acqua. See waterworks

Giuliani, Rudolph, 364

Goldberger, Paul, 402, 403

Golden Gate, 110, 164

Golden Gate Exhibition (1939), 252

Golden Gate Park, 160, 161, 165

Goleta (CA), 235–39, 241

Golf Club (New Albany, OH), 378

golf courses, 157, 248, 303, 327, 341, 378–82, 383, 394

Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 189, 202, 222–28, 229, 230, 254, 287, 385, 391

Goodwin, Francis, 63–64

Gordon, Elizabeth, 279–80

Gorky, Arshile, 318

Gothic Revival, 24, 25, 31–32, 35, 50, 63–67, 73, 74, 77, 114, 115, 189, 221

Arts & Crafts movement and, 177, 178, 180, 182

university buildings and, 202, 223

Gould, Jay, 114, 162

government policies, 276–77, 334–35

Graham, Martha, 316, 318

Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows, 226

Grandmother’s garden, xiii, 130–36, 181, 183, 186–90, 195, 196

description of, 130–32

Grand Tour, 19, 20, 27, 28, 30, 31, 159, 183, 229

Grant, Anne, 35

Grant Park, 152

grass. See lawns grasses, ornamental, 366, 367, 372

grass garden, 368

Gravetye Manor, 186

Great Falls (Passaic River), 326

Great Plains, 368–69

Great Serpent Mound, 318

Greece, ancient, 18, 22, 32, 48, 63

Greek Revival style, 63, 74, 114, 204

Greek War of Independence, 63

Greene, Charles, 189, 221

Greene, Henry, 221, 385

Greene, Isabel, 385

Green Hill, 123

greenhouses, heated, 65, 69, 147

Greenlee, John, 367, 401

Green Park, 86

Greensward plan, 93

Greenwich Village, 306, 369–70

Green-Wood Cemetery, 88–89, 90

Greenwood Common, 305

grid system, 53

Griffin, Walter Burley, 211

Griffith, D. W., 225

Griffith Park, 260

Griffiths, Jay, 384

Griswold, Mac, 171

Gropius, Walter, 268–69, 270, 274, 298, 304

Guadalupe River Park, 370

Guevrekian, Gabriel, 252

Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), 388

Gurdjieff, Georges, 255

Gustafson, Kathryn, 371–76, 376, 380, 381, 402

Gwinn fountain, 147

 

Haeg, Fritz, Edible Landscapes, 398

ha-ha (sunken fence), 15, 35, 49, 66, 243, 267

Hakone, 166

Hall, William Hammond, 165

Halprin, Lawrence, 243, 247, 271, 275, 304–14, 322, 323, 333, 334, 336, 338, 347, 370

design philosophy of, 306

RSVP Cycles, 308

Sea Ranch ecoscore, 308

Hamilton, Alexander, 43, 326

Hamilton, William, 35

Hampton Court, 40

Hamptons (Long Island), xiii, 359, 360, 361, 366, 367

Hancock house, 131

handcrafts, 179, 388

Hanson, A. E., 229

Hargreave, George, 370, 371

Harvard University, 116, 149, 159

Bussey Institute, 198

Graduate School of Design, 193, 268–69, 274, 275, 298, 304, 335, 370

Hassam, Childe, 134

Haussmann, Baron, 156

Hawaii, 163, 287–91, 306, 317, 380–81

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 57, 83–84, 87, 103, 132

The Marble Faun, 118

Haymarket riot (1886), 155

Health House, 260

Hebrew University, 305

hedges, 16, 17, 21, 183, 187, 204, 230, 233, 300, 361

Downing’s dislike of, 103

Eckbo gardens and, 272

Heizer, Michael, 333, 338

Double Negative, 330, 332

Hemings, Sally, 6

Henry Clay (steamer), 57–58, 91

herb gardens, 131, 350

Herculaneum ruins, 63

Hetch Hetchy Valley dam, 165

Hever Castle, 151

High Court, 121

High Line Park (NYC), 401–3

highways. See roads and highways

Hiroshima Peace Park, 319

Hitchcock, Alfred, 281–82

Hoe, Annie (daughter), 119–20

Hoe, Annie (mother), 118, 119–20

Hoe, Richard, 118, 119–20

Hokusai, 159

Ono Falls, 215

Hollins, Marion, 248

Hollyhock House, 214–15, 255

hollyhocks, 131, 190, 215

“hollyhocking,” 132

Hollywood, 214–15, 253, 254–56, 401

Hollywood Hills, 255, 266, 272

Holmby Hills, 229

Holm Lea, 192

Home Culture Club, 135

home ownership, 250, 251, 277

Homer, 32

Homer, Winslow, 132

Honolulu, 155–56

Honolulu Academy of Arts, 287

Ho’oden pavilion. See Phoenix Villa

Hope Ranch, 229, 391

Horace, 18, 21, 28, 32, 34

Horticulturalist (journal), 58, 82, 91, 92

horticulture, 62, 70, 80, 84, 156, 184

golden age of, 69

landscape architecture vs., 335

Hosack, David, 73

Hosmer, Harriet, 118

hospital design, 305

Hôtel de Langéac (Paris), 38, 38

Hotel del Coronado (San Diego), 161

hot tubs, 237, 241

House & Garden (magazine), 160, 353

House Beautiful (magazine), 243, 279–80, 281, 282

House of Burgesses (VA), 7, 15, 36

Howe beach house, 260

Hualalai golf course, 380–81

Hudson River, 56–57, 58–59, 73, 111, 402

Hudson River School, 60, 61, 95–96, 111–12

Hudson Valley, 57–65, 111–15, 357

attractions of, 60

Downing and, 61–65, 154

estates of, 73, 111, 113–14, 142–44, 146–47

suburban character of, 83, 84

Hugo, Victor, 206

Hull House, 155, 189, 206

Humboldt, Alexander von, 112–13

Humboldt Park, 209, 210, 211

Hunnewell, Horatio Hollis, 123

Hunt, John Dixon, 293

Hunt, Richard Morris, 113, 124, 128, 146, 148, 151–52, 153

Huntington, Henry, 162

Huntington Gardens, 383

Huntsman-Trout, Edward, 385

Hyde Park (London), 73, 86, 374

Hyde Park estate (NY), 146–47

Hyerdahl, Thor, 288

 

immigrants, 90–91, 118, 129, 135, 136, 155, 397, 403

Asian exclusion laws, 163, 166–67

as gardeners, 133, 145, 166, 197

Imperial Hotel (Tokyo), 212, 214

imperialism, 156, 157, 162–65, 167, 168

Impressionism, 132, 159, 390

income tax, federal, 168, 249, 277

Indiana Dunes, 211

Indians. See Native Americans

Indo-Saracenic architecture, 114

industrialization, 53, 66, 77, 79, 81–82, 129, 178–79, 180, 326

new wealth and, 114–15, 119

industrial revolution, 179

Interlaken School, 315

International Style, 244, 258, 300, 311, 320

Inwood Park (Upper Manhattan), 56

Ira Keller Fountain, 311, 312

Ireland, English plantations in, 45

Irish immigrants, 90–91, 133, 164

irrigation, 276–77, 381–83

Irving, Washington, 60, 73, 84, 93

Irwin, Robert, 338, 343–46, 347

Islamic styles, 18, 113, 115, 225

Is Martha Stewart Living? (parody), 353

Italian gardens, 13, 16–22, 27–33, 67, 157, 174, 248

appeal of, 48, 122–23, 151, 394

Arts & Crafts revival of, 183, 186, 187, 197

Jefferson and, 35–36, 39

Olmsted’s view of, 116

Platt and, 122–23, 143–44, 147

style elements of, 17, 21, 183, 187

Wharton and, 138–39, 140, 147

 

Jackson, Andrew, 59, 63

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 219–20

Ramona, 219–20, 225

Jackson, Kenneth, 278

Crabgrass Frontier, 250

Jackson Park, 124

Jacobs, Jane, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 306, 328

James, Henry, 118, 137, 140, 145–46, 148–49, 157, 159, 192, 195, 232, 361

Italian Hours, 139

James, William, 118, 195

Jamestown, 10, 11, 13

Japan

architecture and, 212, 214, 221, 243, 263, 267, 313, 394–95

Children’s Year, 319

style influence of, 157–62, 166–68, 172, 207–8, 214, 215, 221, 316, 320

Japanese Exclusion League, 166–67

Japanese gardens, 208, 319–22, 332, 394

in California, 172, 232, 243

elements of, 321, 362, 380

as Gilded Age influence, 157, 159–60, 161–62, 166–67

“hill-and-water” type, 162

Japanese immigrants, 166–67, 168

Japanism/Japonisme, 158–59, 395

jardin anglais. See picturesque

Jardin des Plantes, 51

Jardin du Roi, 37

Jardin Japonais, 320

Jardins de Luxembourg, 37

Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, 343–44

Jefferson, Peter, 7, 9

Jefferson, Thomas, x, xiii, xvi, 1–8, 11, 12, 23–26, 35–53, 65, 107, 111, 112, 114, 129, 158, 163, 252, 275, 329, 381, 397

Autobiography, 3

conflicted values of, xii, 5–6, 42, 44, 48, 49, 52–53

debt from lavish spending of, 42, 43, 44, 45, 49

Garden Book, 3, 35

“Head and Heart” letter of, 39

Memorandum Book, 23

observation tower plan of, 25

personal life of, 6, 35, 36, 38–39, 42, 49, 51–53

philosophy of nature of, 190, 304, 404

political philosophy of, 28, 42–43, 44, 48, 53, 180, 205

scientific farming and, 44, 66

See also Monticello; University of Virginia

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch, 300

Jekyll, Gertrude, 186–88, 189, 191, 192, 193, 196, 198, 200, 344, 362, 386, 390

Jencks, Charles, 376–77

Jensen, Jens, 208–12, 300, 361, 366

Prairie River, 210

Jerome, Jennie, 151

Jews, 145–46, 149, 151

Johnson, Jack, xiii Johnson, Lady Bird, 328–29

Johnson, Lyndon, 328, 329

Johnson, Philip, 259, 263, 300, 304

Johnson, Reginald, 231

Jones, A. Quincy, 279, 281

Jones, Beatrix. See Farrand, Beatrix Jones

Jones, Frederic Rhinelander, 191

Jones, Inigo, 19–20

Jones, Jennifer, 390, 392

Jones, Mary (“Minnie”), 191–92

Jonson, Ben, 20

Joshua Trees, 267, 268

Judd, Donald, 324–25, 328, 338

Jungian psychology, 307, 308

“junk” materials, 340–41

 

Kabuki theater, 320

Kahn, Louis, 298, 300

Kandinsky, Wassily, 252, 273

Kaufmann, Edgar J., 215

Kaufmann, Edgar J., Jr., 215

Kaufmann House, 267, 268

Keio University, 319

Kelling, George, 364

Kelmscott Press, 189

Kelsey, John, 388, 390

Kennedy, John F., 3

Kensington Gardens, 86

Kent, Adeline, 245

Kent, William, 31, 65–66

Kentuck Knob, 212

Keswick, Maggie, 377

Kew Gardens, 40, 50, 156, 157

keyhole rooms, 230

Khrushchev, Nikita, 285

Kiley, Anne, 298

Kiley, Daniel Urban, 269, 297–304, 313, 322, 323, 333, 336, 338, 389

King City (Ontario), 332

King’s Road house (Hollywood), 255–59

Kipling, Rudyard, 115, 159

“kitchen debate” (Moscow, 1959), 285

kitchen gardens. See vegetable gardens

Klee, Paul, 252

Kmart, 359

Kon-Tiki (raft), 288

Kostyra, Eddie, 354, 359

Kotani’an, 166

Krishnamurti, 266

 

Ladd, Thornton, 388, 390

La Farge, John, 120, 192

Lafayette, Marquis de, 37

Lake District (England), 30, 84

lanai, 242, 243

Land Art, 319, 333–34, 338, 375

landform, 370–71, 374–77

Landform Ueda, 377

landscape design, 55–110, 293–347, 349–404

architects’ status and, 184–85, 335

art world boundary with, 341–42

as cultivated nature, 66–67, 303

as experience, 313

form emphasis of, 243–44

invention of phrase, 67

as legitimate art form, 338

postmodernism and, 337–41, 376–77

professionalization of, 77, 193, 275, 335–36

Southern Californian influence on, 270–76

women and, 192–202

landscape engineering, 346–47, 368

landscape tables, 322

Lantern of Demosthenes, 26, 50

Larkin, Oliver, 115, 144

Lassels, Richard, 20

Las Teras, 229

La Toscana, 229

Latrobe, Benjamin, 63, 134–35

Laurel Canyon, 272

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 90

Lautner, John, 257

lawn mowers, 69, 102

lawns, 185, 361, 376–82, 391, 394

American South and, 204

anti-lawn movement and, 367–68, 377, 400, 401

California and, 222, 240, 243, 267, 283, 286, 384

as central to American gardens, 4, 102–4, 377

contemporary landscape design and, 376–77

irrigation and, 381, 382–83

kitchen gardens replacing, 398, 400

picturesque and, 65, 66, 69, 97

terracing of, 15, 21

Leary, Timothy, 266

Leasowes, 26–27, 40–41, 41

Le Brun, Charles, 152

Lee, Vernon, 138

Lehrer, Seth, 227

leisure lifestyle, 246, 247, 394, 401

Le Nôtre, André, 37, 148, 152, 299, 301–2, 336, 346, 372

Lenox (MA), 139–41

Leoni, Giacomo, 23

Les Quartres Vents, 362–63

Le Vau, Louis, 152

Levens Hall, 181, 183

Lever Brothers courtyard garden, 319

Lewis, Meriwether, 4

Lewis, R. W. B., 141–42

Lewis and Clark expedition, 3, 4, 53

Liberty Gardens, 398, 401

Lincoln Center (NYC), 302

Linnaeus, Carolus, 10

“Little Boxes” (song), 279

Liverpool, 86, 91–93

Llewellyn Park, 100–101, 100, 327

plan for, 101

Locke, John, 10, 42

London, 13, 86, 89, 129

Exposition (1862), 91–92, 159

London, Jack, 287

Long Branch (NJ), 145–46

Long Island estates, 144, 199. See also Hamptons

Longwood Gardens, 363

Loos, Adolf, 206, 254

L’Oreal corporate headquarters, 373–74

Lorrain, Charles, 29

Los Angeles, 229, 254–60, 268–76, 283, 289–90, 329, 342–46, 379, 385, 387

suburban expansion of, 270–76, 277

Wright houses in, 214–15, 255

Lotusland, 230–33, 233, 268, 384, 391

Loudon, Jane Webb, Gardening for Ladies, 82

Loudon, John Claudius, 65, 68–71, 74, 80, 85, 180, 184, 357, 401

Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, 69, 80

Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, 63, 68

Encyclopedia of Gardening and Suburban Gardener, 65

Louis XIV, king of France, 16, 20, 152, 153, 372

Louisiana Purchase (1803), 3, 4, 49, 53

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, 1903–04), 160, 208

Lovejoy Fountain, 311, 311

Lovell, Philip, 258, 259, 260

Lowell, Guy, 198

Lowthorpe School of Landscape Gardening for Women, 193

Ludington, Charles, 229

Ludington, Wright, 229, 230

Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 220–21

Lurie Garden, 372–73, 374, 375, 402

planting plan for, 373

Lutheran Cemetery, 89

Lutyens, Edwin, 187, 188, 191, 196, 302, 362

Lyell, Charles, 183

 

Machiavelli, Niccolò, The Prince, 20

machine in the garden, 44

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie, 206, 215, 254

Madison, Dolley, 51

Madison Square Garden, 120, Madison Square Park, 364

Maher, George, 211

male literature, 133

Malibu, 289–91

Mall (Washington, DC), 154

malls. See shopping malls

Manhattan. See New York City

Manifest Destiny, 163

Manning, Warren, 297–98

Marcus Aurelius, 32

Marin County (CA), 305, 344

Marine Midland Bank, 336

Mariposa Estate, 95

Marsh, George Turner, 161

Martha Stewart Living (magazine), 351, 353, 364

Martha Stewart Show (TV program), 360

Martha Stewert Living Omnimedia, 359

Marx, Leo, The Machine in the Garden, 83

Maryland, 366–67

Mason, George, 36

Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 89

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

landscape architecture program of, 197, 198

landscape art and, 338, 340–41

mass market gardens, 68–70

Matta-Clark, Gordon, 369

Mawson, Thomas, 193

May, Cliff, 283–85, 287

Maya, 212, 213, 215, 255

Maybeck, Bernard, 221, 249

Mazzei, Philip, 36

McHarg, Ian, Design with Nature, 338

McKim, Charles Follen, 120, 124, 128

McKim, Mead, and White, 120–21, 124, 130, 144, 146, 158–59, 221, 361

Meadowlands (NJ), 55, 57, 323, 327

meadowscapes, 401, 402

Medici family, 147

medievalism, 17, 67, 74, 115, 131, 133, 221

Arts & Crafts movement and, 176–81, 206

Goodhue and, 223–24, 225, 227–28

See also Gothic Revival

Mediterranean-inspired style, 225, 228–29, 240, 248, 256, 285, 385–86, 391, 394

Meier, Richard, 342–43, 344–45, 346, 402

Mellon, Andrew, 162

Melville, Herman, 99, 158

Mendelsohn, Erich, 260

Menlo Park, 284

Merritt, George, 114

Mexican-American War, 218

Mexican architecture, xvi, 173, 224, 228, 282–83

Mexican-Californians, 219, 220, 221

Meyer, David, 371

Michener, James, Hawaii, 288

Middleton, Henry, 34, 35

Middleton, William, 35

Middleton Place, 34

Midway Gardens, 212

Midwest, U.S., 204–14

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 254, 259, 263, 298, 300, 302

Mililani (Hawaiian new town), 306

Millard House, 212

Millennium Park. See Lurie Garden

Miller, Grace, 261

Miller, Irwin, 300–302

Miller, Lynden, 363, 364

Miller, Wilhelm, 211

Miller house (Columbus, IN), 300–302

Miller house (Palm Springs), 261–62, 262

Mill Race Park (Columbus, IN), 370

Mill Valley (CA), 305

minimalism, 252, 316, 324–25, 334, 338

Minneapolis Federal Courthouse Plaza, 371

Miró, Joan, 252

Mission Indians, 220

Mission Revival, 220, 228, 254, 287

elements of, 221, 256

Mission style, 172, 174, 220, 221, 256

Mitoraj, Igor, 375

Mizner, Addison, 391

modernism, 178, 206, 217–18, 233, 286, 288, 394–95

California blend of, xvi, 173, 174–76, 235–40, 236, 240–81, 282, 305, 385, 386–88

celebrity architects and, 281

corporate and campus buildings and, 320

European leaders of, 252

first garden books of, 274

“form follows function” and, 205

functionalism and, 245, 300

Japanese influence and, 394–95

mid-century architecture and, 301–2

neoclassicism and, 299–300, 342–43

public concrete spaces and, 294–96

See also International Style

Mojave Desert, 261, 383

Mondrian, Piet, 252

Monet, Claude, 133, 159, 187, 390

Monkton (MD), 366–67

Montecito, 172, 224–25, 229, 263, 268, 289–90, 384

Monterey, 229, 309

Montgomery Place, 103

Monticello, 1–7, 12, 22–24, 34–37, 40–52

additions/changes to, 36–37, 44–45

isolation of, 246

nailery at, 44

Olana compared with, 113–14

plan (1808) for, 50, 51

restoration of, 203

slaves and, 5, 44, 45

symbolism of, 5, 6–7, 53, 281

vegetable garden of, 35–36, 51, 398, 400

Monville, Baron de, 37–38

mood engineering, 98

moon garden, 233

Moore, Charles, 173, 307–8, 391

Moore, Henry, 301, 336

Moore Ruble Yudell, 391

Moorish style, 115, 173

Moor Park, 40

Moorten, Cactus Slim, 267–68

Moorten, Patricia, 267

Morgan, J. P., 147

Morris, Jane, 179

Morris, William, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184, 186, 188, 189, 206, 286, 388

Morrison, Van, 394

Morse, Samuel F. B., 323–24

“Allegorical Landscape,” 323

Morven, 35

Moses, Robert, 306, 317, 319

Mount, The, 139–41, 141, 143

Mount Auburn Cemetery, 89, 90

Mount Carmel Cemetery, 89

Mount Rushmore, 315

Mount Vernon, 47, 134–35, 203, 204

Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 134, 203

Mughal gardens, 302, 345

Muir, John, 211

Mumford, Lewis, 104, 115, 130, 156, 169

Sticks and Stones, 180–81

Munstead Heath (Surrey), 186

Museum of Modern Art, 319

modernism show (1949), 274

Muybridge, Eadward, 127

 

Napoleon I, 3, 53

Napoleon III, 117

Napoleonic Wars, 67

Nash, John, 86

National Gallery of Art (DC), 302

nationalism, 75–76, 135, 191, 211

national parks, 99

Native Americans, 52, 79, 218, 219, 221

prehistoric earthworks of, 318

native plants, 183, 184, 211, 249, 283, 366, 371

Natural Bridge (VA), 53, 111–12, 112

Naumkeag, 246

Nemours, 148

neoclassical style, 117, 144–45, 154–55, 165, 166

antebellum American South and, 203

California and, 221, 385

Chicago World’s Fair and, 126–29, 205

elements of, 300

modern design and, 299–300, 342–43

Ruskin attack on, 177–78

Nesbit, Evelyn, 161

Neutra, Dione, 260

Neutra, Richard, 251, 257, 259–68, 273, 275, 282, 284, 285, 301, 384, 395

Mystery and Realities of the Site, 262

Nevins, Deborah, 367

New American Garden, 240–41, 247

elements of, 366

New Amsterdam gardens, 9

Newbold garden plan, 194

Newburgh (NY), 57, 58–59, 62, 63, 70, 73, 80, 88, 91, 357

New Deal, 270, 275, 298

New Delhi (India), 302

New England, 41–42, 80, 98, 120

New Jersey, 9, 55, 100–101, 323–32

shore mansions and, 145–46

new materials, 260–61, 266, 271–72, 280

New Mexico, 218, 254, 256

New Orleans, 204, 329

Newport (RI), 137, 146, 148, 192, 361

Newport beach house (CA), 259

Newton, Isaac, 28, 42

New York Botanical Garden, 202, 364

New York City, 129, 146, 158, 277, 306

city-wilderness relationship and, 55–57

decline and restoration of, 363–64, 369–70, 401–3

garden suburbs and, 100–101

parks and, 90–91, 306, 313–14, 317–18, 364, 401–3

parkways and, 99

See also Brooklyn; Central Park

New York Public Library, 148

Nichols, Rose Standish, 195

Nicholson, Francis, 13

Nicklaus, Jack, 378–81, 382

Nixon, Richard, 285

Noguchi, Isamu, 315–23, 332, 347, 359, 370, 375, 376

Monument to the Plow, 380

Play Mountain, 317, 317

Red Cube, 336

Sculpture to be Seen from Mars, 318–19

This Tortured Earth, 318–19

Noguchi, Yonejiro, 315, 316, 319

Nonesuch Palace, 19

North by Northwest (film), 281–82

Northcote, 195

Northern Pacific Railway, 119, 121

Northwest Ordinance (1784), 53

Norton, Charles Eliot, 116

Norton Simon Museum of Art, 388–90

Notre Dame, University of, 202, 223

Nouvel, Jean, 402

Nuremberg war crimes trials, 299, 304

Nutley (NJ), 354

 

Oak Brook (IL) mall, 305

Obama, Michelle, xii, 398, 399

Ocean Parkway, 99

Oehme, Wolfgang, 367

Oehme, van Sweden, 366–67

Office of Strategic Services, 199

Ogontz, 115

Okatt, Charles, Italian Gardens, 122

Olana, 111, 113–14, 132, 230, 246

Oldenburg, Claes, 338

Oleander House, 255

Olive Hill, 214, 255, 256

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 58, 91–102, 104, 113, 115, 116, 123–28, 160, 165, 184, 192–93, 204, 207, 208, 209, 297–98, 371, 381

background and early life of, 91–93

Biltmore mansion and, 152–54

Central Park and, 91–95

Chicago World’s Fair and, 123–24, 125–26, 128, 152, 153, 160, 207, 336

death of, 154

garden design school of, 122–23, 203

landscape design philosophy of, 335–36, 338

management skills of, 95

park philosophy of, 94–95, 101, 136, 264, 338

Prospect Park and, 96–97, 98

Walks and Talks, 92, 93

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr. (Rick), 154–55, 336

Olmsted, John (brother), 91

Olmsted, John Charles (stepson), 154, 193

Olmsted Brothers, 154, 155–56, 256

Ontario, 371

orgone boxes, 265, 266

Orientalism, 113, 114, 158–59, 225, 233

Ornamental Tree Society, 80

Osborn house, 300

Ossian, 2

Oudolf, Piet, 372, 402

outdoor living, 239–40, 239, 246, 249, 257–59, 266–67, 270, 280–81, 283

Out West (magazine), 220

Ovid, 18, 20, 28

Owens River, 276–77

 

Pacific Northwest, 311

Page, John, 39

Painshill, 40

Painted Cave fire, 291

paintings, 99, 117, 288, 324

collectors and, 150

garden design and, 28–30, 32, 66, 67, 187, 193, 196, 208, 252, 270–74, 390

of garden scenes, 132

Japanism and, 158, 159

See also Hudson River School

Palace Hotel (San Francisco), 161

Paley, William S., 314

Paley Park, 313–14, 314

Palisades Parkway (NJ-NY), 56

Palladio, Andrea, 19, 23, 31–32, 36, 39, 43–47, 52, 63, 139, 301, 302

Pall Mall (London), 89

Palm Beach (FL), 175, 391

Palm Desert (CA), 382, 383

Palm Springs (CA), 261–62, 267–68, 380, 382

Panama-California Exposition (San Diego, 1915), 228, 254

Panama Canal, 228

Panama Canal Zone, 383

Panama-Pacific Exhibition (San Francisco, 1915), 255

paradeiza (paradeisos), xiv, 18

Parc de Scheaux, 299

Paris, 37, 117, 156

Exposition (1889), 128

parks. See public parks parkways, 99

Parmentier, André, 73

Parrish, Maxfield, 120, 138–39

Parrish, Stephen, 116, 117–18, 120

garden of, 119, 195

Parsons, Alfred, 184

Parsons, Samuel, 193

Parthenon marbles, 63

Pasadena, 162, 221, 229, 255, 383–85, 388–89

Pasatiempo community (CA), 248–49

Passaic (NJ), 324, 325, 326–27, 331

pastoralism, 32, 66–67, 98–99

pastoral urbanism, 400, 403

Paterson (NJ), 326

Patio des Délégues (UNESCO), 320–21

patios, 233, 235, 237, 239, 240, 284

heated, 284

Paulding, William, 114

Paxton, Joseph, 91–92, 93

Peabody, Henry, 224

Peabody family, 149, 173

Peale, Charles Willson, 4

Pei, I. M., 304

Penshurst, 181, 192

“People’s Park,” 92

Perry, James, 329

Perry, Matthew, 158

Persia, xiv, 18, 115, 224, 225, 302, 345

Petit Trianon, 148

PGA West course (La Quinta, CA), 380

Phelan, James Duval, 164–68

Philadelphia, 10, 35, 36, 43, 63, 90, 134, 277

Centennial International Exhibition (1876), 159

Philbin, Regis, 353

Philippines, 163, 165, 166

Phillips Exeter Academy, 202

Phoenix Villa, 159–60, 162, 207–8

Picasso, Pablo, 288, 336

Pickford, Mary, 159, 225

picturesque, 30–38, 42, 67–69, 113, 183, 218, 303, 332–33, 362

American changes in, 65, 115, 203

California return of, 259, 267

critics of, 67–68

Downing and, 58, 60, 72–73, 77

elements of, 32, 37–38, 49–50

garden suburbs and, 100

Loudon definition of, 70

as masculine, 82

Pinchot, Giffort, 153

plantations, xii, 11–12, 203

early meanings of word, 45

restorations of, 134–35, 203–4

Platt, Charles, 116–23, 136, 150, 203

garden designs of, 119, 121, 143–44, 144, 147, 195–96

Italian Gardens, 122–23, 138

Shipman collaboration with, 191, 196

success of, 154

Platt, William, 116, 122

playgrounds, 209, 317, 317–19, 317, 322, 380

Plexiglas, 280, 324–25

Pliny, 18, 32

Pocantico Hills (NY), 161

pocket parks, 314, 366

Poe, Edgar Allan, 111

“The Domain of Arnheim,” 107–11, 113

Pollan, Michael

The Omnivore’s Dilemma, 398

Second Nature, 367

Polynesian style see tiki

Ponce de Leon Hotel, 221

pools, garden, 225, 229, 230, 232, 320. See also swimming pools

Pop art, 338, 340

Pope, Alexander, 30–35, 40, 66, 70, 354

Popper, Frank and Deborah, 368–69

Portland (OR), 154, 311–13, 313, 370

postminimalist garden, 376–77

postmodernism, 173, 337–38, 340–41, 347, 376–77, 385, 395

Poughkeepsie (NY), 88, 105–7

Poussin, Nicolas, 30, 67, 98

The Falls of Tivoli, 29

Power, Nancy Goslee, 385–92, 400

pragmatism, 195

prairie landscape, 208, 210–12, 372

“prairie river,” 210, 211

Prairie school, 208–9

Pratolino, 18–19

Pre-Raphaelites, 132, 178

Preservation Delaware, 198

preservationists, 134–35, 203–4

Presley, Elvis, 288

Princeton (NJ), 35

Princeton University, 202, 223, 364

privacy, 247, 263

suburban house design for, 278–84

property taxes, 277

Prospect Park, 96–97, 99, 403

plan for, 98

Protestantism, 17, 20, 21, 48, 133, 150

psychoanalysis, 263–64

psychology, 307, 308

public parks, 86–100, 104, 107, 154, 209–11, 313, 314, 366, 371

modern concrete spaces as, 294–95

Pacific Northwest and, 311

therapeutic function of, 94–95, 97, 98, 100, 264

See also playgrounds; specific parks

Puccini, Giacomo, Madame Butterfly, 159, 166

Pueblo style, 254, 256

Pullman strike (1894), 136, 155

 

Quebec, 362–63

Queen Anne style, 115, 121, 129, 221–22

 

racism, 163, 167, 168, 278, 286, 329, 382

Radcliffe College, Ice Wall series, 370

railroads, 119, 128, 131, 136, 331, 402–3

commuter, 83–84, 100

Ramble (West Orange, NJ), 100

Rancho Camulos, 219, 220, 225

rancho style, xvi, 219–20, 248–49, 282–85, 287

elements of, 283

Rank, Otto, 264

Raoul-Duval garden, 253

Rauschenberg, Robert, 338

Reader’s Digest company, 319

Reagan, Ronald, 237, 358

Red House, 181

Regent’s Park, 86–87

regionalism, 190, 203–12

Reich, Wilhelm, 268

Renaissance, 13, 17–20, 22, 27, 28, 32, 48, 116, 117, 143–44, 152, 248, 313

Arts & Craft reaction against, 177, 206

See also Italian gardens

Repton, Humphry, 67, 68, 70, 357

republicanism, 41, 43, 47, 48, 104

restorations, 134–35, 203–4

Reynolds, Malvina, 279

Riis, Jacob, 155

Rivera, Diego, 316

Riverside (IL), 101–2, 208

Riverside Park (NYC), 99

Riviera Country Club, 379

roads and highways, 227, 251, 277, 334

Robinson, Charles Mulford, 155

Robinson, Solon, 77

Robinson, William, 184–86, 190, 198, 362, 365

Roche, Kevin, 300

Rockefeller, John D., 161, 203–4, 247

Rockefeller Center, 316

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 202

Rockefeller University, 302

Rockrise, George, 242

Rocky Mountain School, 95

Rogers, Roy, 283

Romanesque style, 129, 223

Romanticism, 52, 63, 177, 178, 202

“academic reaction” to, 117

Hudson River and, 57

Roman villa, 31, 32, 34, 121, 122, 166, 224–25, 229, 230

Rome, ancient, 5, 16, 18–22, 29–30, 32, 35, 45–46, 48, 65, 342

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 397, 398–99

Roosevelt, Theodore, 167, 168, 226–27

Root, John, 123, 124

Rosa, Salvatore, 67

Rose, James, 269, 298

rose gardens, 202, 262

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 178, 179

Ross Planetarium garden (NYC), 374

Rothschild, Ferdinand de, 152

Rothschild family, 151

Rowe, Nicholas, 24

Roxbury Highlands, 297–98

Royal Hawaiian Hotel, 287

Royal Pavilion, 114

Royal Society, 9

Roycroft, 189

Royston, Robert, 247, 275, 289

Rubens, Peter Paul, 29

Rubens House, 209

Ruined Column (garden), 38

Ruisdael, Jacob van, 29

Rumely, Edward, 315

“rural arts” project, 77–79

rural life. See Arcadian ideal

Ruskin, John, 137, 186, 189, 206, 286

The Stones of Venice, 177–78

Russian River, 309

Russo-Japanese War, 168

Rustic Seat, 106

rustic style, Loudon definition of, 70

 

Saadi (Persian traveler-poet), xiv Saarinen, Eero, 299, 300, 301, 302

Saarinen, Eliel, 299

St. Francis Square, 305

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 120, 124, 125, 128, 154–55, 195

Diana, 125

St. James’s Park, 86

St. Louis, 160, 208, 300

San Diego, 161, 283

Panama-California Exposition (1915), 228, 254

San Fernando Valley, 276–77

San Francisco, 270, 305–6, 311, 334

Gilded Age and, 163–67

Golden Gate Exhibition (1939), 252

International Exposition (1894), 160, 161

See also Bay Area

San Francisco Museum of Art, 251, 253

San Francisco Opera, 166

Santa Barbara, 171–74, 228–33, 235, 248, 385, 391

Botanic Garden, 202

Santa Catalina Island, 342

Santa Monica, 390–91

Sargent, Charles Sprague, 192

Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 73

Sargent, John Singer, 159

Sasaki, Hideo, 335

Sasaki, Walker & Associates, 335, 337

Sassoon family, 151

Schindler, Rudolf, 215, 251, 254–60, 301

Schlafly, Phyllis, 356

Schnabel House, 387–88, 389

school gardens, 400

Schuman, Anna, 304–5, 308

Schwartz, Martha, 337–41, 371, 381, 383

Scott, Frank J., 102–3

Scott, Geraldine (Knight), 251

Scott, Sir Walter, 67, 115, 133

Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, 377

sculpture, 120, 207, 245, 246, 301, 332, 334

corporate landscape design and, 336, 375

museum garden collection of, 390

Noguchi and, 316, 318–19, 322, 380

Sea Ranch, 306–10

ecoscore of, 308

Searle, John, 31

Seattle, 154, 311, 313

Seattle Civic Center, 374

Secaucus (NJ), 323

second homes. See country house

Secret Book of Gnomes, The, 358

Sedding, John Dando, 182–83

Seiberling, Frank, 162

Seneca, 20

Serra, Richard, 332–33, 334, 345, 374

Portal Park Slice, 343

Shift, 332–33, 334

Spin Out (for Robert Smithson), 332, 333

Two Running Violet V Forms, 343–44

settlement houses, 155, 189

Seymour, William J., 255

Shadwell plantation, 7, 23

Shakespeare, William, 16, 17, 20, 183

King John, 22

The Tempest, 17

shakkei, 243, 263, 267, 380

Sharp, Hugh Rodney, 198

Sheingold, Richard, 353–54

Shell Oil headquarters, 374

Shenstone, William, 26–27, 30, 33, 40–41, 41, 70

Shepard, Alan, 383

Sherman Booth House, 209

Shingle style, 120, 221, 361

Shipman, Ellen Biddle, 191, 195–97, 200–201

Shipman, Louis, 195, 196

shopping malls, 305–6, 334, 336

Shulman, Julius, 262

Silliman, Benjamin, 114

Simon, Norton, 390

Sissinghurst Castle Garden, 362

site artwork, 330–31

skateboarding, 172, 293–94, 311

Skelton, Martha Wayles, 35

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 319

Skipworth, Robert, 30

Skylands garden, 361

slavery, xii, 5, 6, 7, 11–12, 35, 36, 44, 45, 52, 53, 105

Sloane, Hans, 9

Smith, George Washington, 228–29

Smith, Ken, 341, 371

Smith, Margaret Bayard, 51

Smithson, Robert, 323–32, 333, 338, 339–40, 342, 347, 369, 381

Amarillo Ramp, 332

“The Crystal Land,” 326

design philosophy of, 370–71

Mirror Displacement, 330–31

“The Monuments of Passaic,” 324, 325, 326–27

“Nonsites,” 328

“A Sedimentation of the Mind,” 327

Spiral Jetty, 331–32, 331, 338

Socialist League, 179

Society of Arts and Crafts, 189

Solana, 173

Soleri, Paolo, 309

Sonfist, Alan, 369–70, 398

Sonnenberg, 156–57

Sonoma County, 242–47, 306–10, 344

South, U.S., 203–4

South Bronx (NY), 369

Southwest, U.S., 218–21, 254, 282–88

population movement to, 334

Spanish-American War, 163, 168

Spanish Colonial Revival, 172, 173, 219, 221, 224, 229, 231, 282, 285, 385

elements of, 232

Spanish style, 221, 382, 391

specimen trees, 361

Spencer, Robert, 207, 211

Spielberg, Steven, 401

Splice Garden, 340–41

Spon, Jacob, Voyage d’Italie, 26

Spotswood, Alexander, 8, 12–17, 22

Sprague, Charles F., 143

Sprague, Edward, 198

Spreckels, Klaus, 163

Springside, 88

contemporary condition of, 105–7

Sproul Plaza, 305

Standard Hotel (NYC), 402

Stanford University, medical plaza, 305

Starr, Kevin, 164, 225–26

Steedman, George, 228–29

Steele, Fletcher, 249, 251

Steinhof (Vienna hospital complex), 265

stepped boxes, 324–25, 327

Stevens, Kinton, 230–31

Stevens, Ralph, 268

Stewart, Andy, 351, 355, 357–58, 359, 361, 396

Stewart, Martha, xiii, 349–61, 400–401

background of, 350, 354–56

business sense of, 359–60

Entertaining, 351, 358

garden style of, 350, 352, 353–54, 361, 396

Stickley, Gustav, 189, 190

Stine, Isabel, 166

Stockton, Richard, 35

Stone, Edward Durell, 302

Stowe (English estate), 40, 65, 66

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 132

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 82, 219

Stratford Hall, 35

Strawberry Hill, 66

stroll garden, 321

Strybing Aboretum, 165

Student Union (Berkeley), 305

sublime, 67, 334

suburbanization, xiv, xvi, 53, 235–41, 249–51, 256–57, 270–91, 403

factors in, 250–51, 276–78, 335–36, 401

gardens and, 68, 272, 279, 280–82

golf course communities and, 381, 382

house types and, 278–79, 282–85, 360–61 (see also tract housing)

19th century and, 58, 83–86, 99, 100–107, 327

spoiled landscape and, 327, 329

sprawl and, 105, 250, 276–77, 281

upward mobility and, 356, 357–58

Sullivan, Louis, 124, 125, 136, 160, 189, 190, 205–9, 211, 254, 256, 260

Sunbelt, 277, 327

Sunnyside, 73, 84

Sunset (magazine), 241, 247, 275, 283–84, 285, 305

Supersize Me (film), 398

swimming pools, 240, 243, 244, 245–47, 245, 272, 273, 280, 284, 286, 391

Swiss Cottage, 76

Swiss style, 74

Switzer, Joseph, 27

 

Taft, William Howard, 166

Taft, Mrs. William Howard, 168

Taj Mahal garden, 242

“Take Part” processes, 308

Taliesin (WI), 212–14, 215, 305

Taliesin West (AZ), 212, 309, 310

Tallmadge, Thomas, 211

Tarrytown (NY), 73, 114

Tarrytown Heights (NY), 102

taste, 150, 190, 288

American changes in, 65

British elite and, 20, 21–22, 32–33

Downing and, 58, 62, 75–76, 77, 80, 82, 85, 104–5, 133

Monticello and, 23–24

Stewart and, 350, 351–52, 354, 356–57, 360–61

Wharton and, 137, 145, 149

telegraph, 118, 324

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 115

Tessé, Madame de, 37

Thaxter, Celia, 133–34, 189

Theosophical Society, 255

Thiene, Paul, 231, 249, 256, 385

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 203

Thoreau, Henry David, 77–79, 83, 84, 190, 304

Thorne, Mrs. Oakleigh (Helen), 229

Thouin, Monsieur, 51

Tidal Basin (Washington, DC), 168

Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 230

Tiffany & Company, 388

tiki, xvi, 286–91, 290, 395

Time Landscape (NYC sites), 369–70

Time Warner, 351

Tivoli, 37

tobacco farming, 10–11, 12, 44, 45

Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America, 62

topiary, 21, 32–33, 123, 183

examples of, 182

plastic, 340–41

Toronto, 371

Toynbee, Arnold, 179

Toynbee Hall, 155, 189

tract housing, 100, 275–79, 280

functional floor plan of, 239–40

modernist style of, 235–37, 281

Transcendentalism, 79, 190

Traumberg (German Bohemia), 223, 224

Tremaine House, 268, 384

Triggs, Harry Inigo, 184

The Art of Garden Design in Italy, 183

Formal Gardens of England and Scotland, 183

Trump, Donald, 360

Tucker, Luther, 91

Tudor gardens, 181, 182, 192

Tudor Revival, 74, 223

Tuileries, 37

Tunnard, Christopher, 304

Gardens in the Modern Landscape, 274, 305

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 127, 187, 203

Turner, J. M.W., 117, 390

Turrell, James, 334, 343

Twain, Mark, 133, 287, 403

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 133

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 133

Life on the Mississippi, 67

Twickenham, 30–32, 34, 35, 40, 66

garden plan of, 31

Twinridge house, 235–39, 236, 238, 239, 241, 241, 281, 289, 291

 

UNESCO headquarters (Paris), 320–21

Union Colony, 381

Union Iron Works, 164, 167

United Nations building (NYC), 319

University of California, Berkeley, 248, 305

landscape architecture program, 248, 276

University of California, Davis, 305

University of California, San Diego, 343

University of Chicago, 202

University of Southern California, 346

University of Virginia, 3, 51–52, 252

Jefferson’s Range, 107, 329

urbanization. See cities

Utah, 218, 331–32, 381

Utilitarianism, 69

 

vacations, 94, 394–95

Valle, Susana del, 220

Valle, Ygnacio del, 219, 220

Val Verde, 229, 230

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, II, 146

Vanderbilt, Frederick William, 146–47

Vanderbilt, George Washington, xiii, 151–52

Vanderbilt, William Henry, 146–47, 151, 158

Vanderbilt, William Kissam, 151

Vanderbilt Mansion (Fifth Avenue), 146, 364

Van Gogh, Vincent, 159

Van Renssalaer, Mariana Griswold, 148

Art Out-of-Doors, 135, 195

Van Sweden, James, 367

Van Valkenburgh, Michael, Ice Wall series, 370

Vassar, Matthew, 88, 105, 106–7

Vaux, Calvert, 58, 115, 136, 264

Downing partnership with, 88, 105

Olana design and, 113

Olmsted collaboration with, 93–98, 99

suburb designs of, 101–2

Villas and Cottages, 93

Vaux-le-Vicomte, 152

Veblen, Thorstein, The Theory of the Leisure Class, 133

vegetable gardens, xii, 396–400

Monticello, 35–36, 398

White House layout, 399

Venetian villas, 19, 45–46

Venice (CA), 384, 395

Venturi, Robert, 330

Versailles, 16, 148, 152, 299, 372

vest-pocket park, 314

Victoria, queen of Great Britain, 69, 157, 226

Victorian garden, 32, 65–70, 114–16, 132, 347

critics of, 207

elements of, 69–70, 104, 107, 232

Poe ironic description of, 107–10, 111

See also gardenesque style

Victorian style, 82–83, 99

eclecticism and, 115–16, 129, 176, 221–22

neoclassical reaction against, 145

Victoria Park, 86

Victory Gardens, 397, 398–99, 401

Vienna, 264

Vienna Secession, 252

views, 15, 16, 17, 85, 89, 109, 272, 281, 391, 402

California gardens and, 232, 235, 237–38, 243, 247, 259, 263, 266–67, 268, 391

Getty Museum garden and, 342

Monticello and, 25, 51, 113–14

Olana and, 113–14

villa. See country house; Roman villa

Villa d’Este, 18–19

Villa Lante, 18–19, 143

Villa Montalvo, 166, 167

Villard, Henry, 121

Villa Rotunda, 44, 301

Virgil, 20, 27, 28, 33, 35, 79, 85, 98, 354

Georgics, 21, 32

Virginia, 3, 7–16, 23, 35, 36, 44–48, 134–35, 203–4. See also Monticello; Mount Vernon; Williamsburg

viticulture, 36, 394

Volney, Comte de, 52

Voltaire, 152

Candide, 404

von Gal, Edwina, 367

 

Wadamori, K., 157

Waddesdon Manor, 152

Wagner, Otto, 206, 254, 256, 264

Wagner, Richard, 115, 178

Walker, Peter, 334–35, 337

Walpole, Horace, 65–66

Walska, Ganna, 230–33, 231, 268, 391

Walt Disney Concert Hall, 388

Wardian case, 69

Warhol, Andy, 338

Warner, Charles Dudley, 133

Warwick Castle, 88

Washington, DC, 52, 168, 199–200

Downing plan for, 88, 91

mixed architecture of, 174

reworking of Downing plan for, 154–55

See also White House

Washington, George, 3, 43, 44, 47, 134–35, 203, 204

“Wasmuth” folios (1910), 254

Wasserstein, Bruce, 391

water rights, 276–77

Waters, Alice, 396, 400

water staircase, 227

waterworks

Getty Center garden and, 344–45

Monticello plans and, 24–25, 49–50

private gardens and, 18, 19, 123, 229, 233, 272, 391

public spaces and, 302, 311–13, 311, 314, 320, 342, 365, 370

Watkins, Carleton, 95

Watts riot (Los Angeles, 1965), 329

Wave Hill (Bronx), 363

Wayles, John, 44

Weaver, Lawrence, 188

Webster, Daniel, 81

Weld estate, 196

Weller, Eleanor, 171

Wellesley estate, 123

Wemple, Emmet, 346

Wentworth, Charles, 223

West, U.S., 53, 59, 81, 114

irrigation and, 276–77, 381–83

as popular cultural influence, 283

Westinghouse, 168

West Orange (NJ), 100–101

Westover, 23

Westport (CT), 350, 352, 355–60, 396

Wharton, Edith, 136–43, 145, 147, 188, 191, 197, 199

The Decoration of Houses, 137

The House of Mirth, 140, 149

Hudson River Bracketed, 142–43, 154

Italian Villas and Their Gardens, 138–39, 140

The Valley of Decision, 138

Wharton, Teddy, 137, 143

Whately, Thomas, 70

Observations on Modern Gardening, 36, 39–40

Whigs (Britain), 21, 27–28, 32, 33, 43, 48–49, 188

Whistler, James McNeill, 117, 158

Caprice in Purple and Gold, 159

White, Gilbert, 183

White, Stanford, 120, 125, 128, 144, 161

White City. See World’s Columbian Exposition

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 340–41

White House, 52

kitchen gardens, xii, 397, 398–99, 399

White school, 342

Whitman, Walt, 158, 162, 191

Song of Myself, 205

William and Mary, College of, 8, 10, 13, 23

landscape design course, 36

Williams, William Carlos, 326

Paterson, 326

Williamsburg, 8, 12–17, 14–16, 14, 22

re-creation of Colonial, 204

Willis, Nathaniel, 83

Wilson, Edith, 398

Wilson, Ellen, 120

Wilson, James Q., 364

Wilson, Woodrow, 120, 398

Winfrey, Oprah, 300, 359–60

Winslow House, 208

Winterthur, 197, 198–99, 363

Wisconsin, 189, 205–6, 212–14

Wodenethe, 73, 73, 85

Wolfe, Tom, From Bauhaus to Our House, 342

Wonderland Park, 272, 275, 281

Woodlands, The, 35

Wordsworth, William, 84

World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), 123–28, 126, 130–31, 144, 152, 153, 155, 156, 168–69, 203, 205, 336

Anthropological Building, 212, 213

California Building, 221, 222

Japanese Phoenix Villa and garden, 159–60, 160, 162, 207–8

Lagoon and Wooded Isle, 127

Transportation Building, 124, 125, 136, 206

World War I, 168, 169, 226, 227–28, 398, 401

World War II, 239, 260, 270, 287, 296, 298–99, 304, 318

postwar mood and, 278–79, 322

Victory Gardens and, 397, 399, 401

Wren, Christopher, 13, 139

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 144, 190, 205–18, 254, 255–56, 258, 260, 267, 281–82, 304, 309

The Art and Craft of the Machine, 206

Arts & Crafts style and, 189, 212, 215, 216–18, 282

“Chicago Culture,” 212

as defining modernism, 282

house and garden philosophy of, 233

Japanese style influence on, 160, 207–8, 212, 214, 215

A Testament, 206

Wright, Lloyd (son), 255, 256

Wundt, Wilhelm, 264

Wurster, William, 248, 251, 304, 305, 306

 

Yale University, 202, 321

Yellowstone National Park, 99

Yoch, Florence, 201, 249, 385

Yorkville Park (Toronto), 371, 383

Yosemite National Park, 99, 165

Yosemite Valley, 95–96

Young, Brigham, 381

Yucatan Peninsula, 331

Yudell, Buzz, 391

 

Zen gardens, 316, 319, 322, 332, 395

fake materials and, 340

Zion & Breen, 313–14