Beatrix Farrand 1872-1959

A skilled designer and founder member of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1899. Farrand was born in New York and travelled with her father's sister, Edith Wharton. She admired Gertrude Jekyll, acquired her plans and bequeathed them to the University of California. Her Arts and Crafts style can be seen at Dumbarton Oaks, which has become a centre for the study of landscape architecture. She also worked on the graduate college gardens at Princeton University and the Memorial Quadrangle at Yale.