Landscape gardens on the Hudson, a history : the romantic age, the great estates, & the birth of American landscape architecture / Robert M. Toole.

Main entry:

Toole, Robert M.

Title & Author:

Landscape gardens on the Hudson, a history : the romantic age, the great estates, & the birth of American landscape architecture / Robert M. Toole.

Edition:

1st ed. pbk.

Publication:

Hensonville, N.Y. : Black Dome, 2010.

Description:

viii, 184 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Foreword by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.
Historical background -- Prelude : the colonial period -- Clermont, "In complete fairy-land," and Landor's Cottage -- Hyde Park (Vanderbilt) -- Montgomery Place -- Blithewood -- Sunnyside -- Knoll (Lyndhurst) -- Millbrook and Kenwood -- Locust Grove -- Highland Gardens -- Springside -- Idlewild, The Point, and Wilderstein -- Olana -- Epilogue -- List of illustrations -- Appendix A. Visiting landscape gardens on the Hudson -- Appendix B. Visiting the best of the English landscape gardens.

ISBN:

9781883789688 (trade pbk.)
1883789680 (trade pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape gardening Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) History 19th century.
Landscape gardening New York (State) History 19th century.
Landscape architecture Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) History 19th century.
Landscape architecture New York (State) History 19th century.
Gardens New York (State) History.
Dwellings New York (State) History.
Historic sites New York (State)
Historic buildings New York (State)
Architecture du paysage Hudson, Vallée de l' (N.Y. et N.J.) Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture du paysage New York (État) Histoire 19e siècle.
Jardins New York (État) Histoire.
Habitations New York (État) Histoire.
Lieux historiques New York (État)
Dwellings.
Gardens.
Historic buildings.
Historic sites.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape gardening.
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) History, Local.
Hudson, Vallée de l' (N.Y. et N.J.) Histoire locale.
New York (State)
United States Hudson River Valley.

Form/genre:

History.
Local history.

Added entries:

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow, 1936-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271831
Call No.: BIB 205082
Status: Available

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