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Warren H. Manning, landscape architect and environmental planner, edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback

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Warren H. Manning, landscape architect and environmental planner

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edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback

Critical perspectives in the history of environmental design

Warren H. Manning's (1860-1938) national practice comprised more than sixteen hundred landscape design and planning projects throughout North America, from small home grounds to estates, cemeteries, college campuses, parks and park systems, and new industrial towns. Manning approached his design and planning projects from an environmental perspective, conceptualizing projects as components of larger regional (in some cases, national) systems, a method that contrasted sharply with those of his stylistically oriented colleagues. In this regard, as in many others, Manning had been influenced by his years with the Olmsted firm, where the foundations of his resource-based approach to design were forged. Manning's overlay map methods, later adopted by the renowned landscape architect Ian McHarg, provided the basis for computer mapping software in widespread use today. One of the eleven founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Manning also ran one of the nation's largest offices, where he trained several influential designers, including Fletcher Steele, A.D. Taylor, Charles Gillette, and Dan Kiley. After Manning's death, his reputation slipped into obscurity. Contributors to the Warren H. Manning Research Project have worked more than a decade to assess current conditions of his built projects and to compile a richly illustrated compendium of site essays that illuminate the range, scope, and significance of Manning's notable career with specially commissioned photographs by Carol Betsch

Series editor's preface / by Daniel J. Nadenicek -- The career of Warren H. Manning / by Robin Karson -- Alabama. Birmingham: Birmingham District Plan / Marjorie Longencker White ; Mountain Brook: Mountain Brook Estates / Marjorie Longencker White -- Arizona. Warren: Warren Town Plan / Terri Rochon -- Connecticut. Farmington: Alfred A. Pope Estate (Hill-Stead) / Margaret Carpenter ; Middlebury: John H. Whittemore Estate (Tranquillity Farm) / Robin Karson -- Georgia. Athens: Athens City Plan / Kevan Williams ; Thomasville: Jeptha H. Wade Estate (Mill Pond Plantation) / Staci L. Catron -- Illinois. Lake Bluff: Stanley Field and Albert A. Sprague II Estates / Jane Roy Brown ; Lake Forest: Finley Barrell Estate / Arthur H. Miller ; Lake Forest: Lake Forest University (Lake Forest College) / Arthur H. Miller ; Lake Forest: Cyrus H. McCormick II Estate (Walden) / Arthur H. Miller -- Maine. Bangor: Bangor City Plan : the Burned District / Jane Roy Brown ; Northport: Ira M. Cobe Estate / Jane Roy Brown ; Rockport: Albert H. Chatfield Estate / Jane Roy Brown ; Rockport: Megunticook Golf Course / Jane Roy Brown -- Massachusetts. Amherst: Massachusetts Agricultural College (University of Massachusetts) / Matthew Medeiros ; Chestnut Hill: Clement S. Houghton Estate / James O'Day ; Hopedale: Bancroft Park / Matthew Medeiros ; Hopedale: Frank Dutcher Estate (Oakledge) / Matthew Medeiros ; Hopedale: General Draper High School / Matthew Medeiros ; Hopedale: Hopedale Parklands / Matthew Medeiros ; Marion: Galen L. Stone Estate (Great Hill) / Jane Roy Brown ; North Billerica: Billerica Garden Suburb / Matthew Medeiros ; North Billerica: Manning Manse / Matthew Medeiros ; South Dartmouth: Arthur A. Houghton and Alanson B. Houghton Estates / James O'Day ; Wellesley: Fuller Brook Park / Matthew Medeiros -- Michigan. Calumet: Agassiz Park / Lynn Bjorkman and Arnold R. Alanen ; Gwinn: Gwinn Model Town / Arnold R. Alanen and Lynn Bjorkman ; Ishpeming: William G. Mather Estate (Cliffs Cottage) / Steve Brisson ; Mackinac Island: Mackinac Island State Park / Steve Brisson ; Mackinaw City: Michilimackinac State Park / Steve Brisson -- Missouri. Ladue: John Gates Williams Estate / Jane Roy BrownNew Hampshire. Center Harbor: Leonard Tufts Estate / Martha Lyon ; Exeter: Ambrose Swasey Plot, Exeter Cemetery / Martha Lyon -- New York: Huntington: Wilton Lloyd-Smith Estate (Kenjockety) / Pamela Hartford ; Ithaca: Cayuga Heights / Jacob Brown ; Ithaca: Cornell University Campus / Daniel Krall ; Ithaca: Enfield Glen State Park (Robert H. Treman State Park) / Daniel Krall ; Ithaca: Finger Lakes State Parks / Jacob Brown ; Ithaca: Ithaca Improvement Plan / Jacob Brown ; Ithaca: Stewart Park / Jacob Brown ; Ithaca: Robert H. Treman and Charles E. Treman Estates / Jacob Brown -- North Carolina. Greensboro: Greensboro Normal and Industrial College (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) / Matthew Medeiros ; Pinehurst: Pinehurst Village / Martha Lyon -- Ohio. Akron: Glendale Park / Gloria Schreiber ; Akron: Goodyear Heights / Gloria Schreiber ; Akron: Frank A. Seiberling Estate (Stan Hywet) / Robin Karson ; Cleveland: Henry G. Dalton Estate (Edgewater) / Joan Randall and Mary Hoerner ; Cleveland: William G. Mather Estate (Gwinn) / Robin Karson ; Hartville: Harry B. Stewart Estate / Gloria Schreiber ; Hunting Valley: Jeptha H. Wade Estate (Valley Ridge Farm) / Christopher Bond ; Lyndhurst: Henry S. Sherman Estate / Joan Randall ; Youngstown: Mill Creek Park / Rebecca Rogers ; Youngstown: Tod Homestead Cemetery / Rebecca Rogers -- Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Bellevue Park / Robin Karson ; Harrisburg: Harrisburg Parks / Robin Karson ; Haverford: Clement A. Griscom Estate (Dolobran) / Maureen S. Thompson -- Rhode Island: Westerly: Wilcox Park / Martha Lyon -- Tennessee. Chattanooga: Fairyland Estates / Matthew Medeiros -- Virginia. Charlottesville: University of Virginia / Christopher Patzke ; Norfolk: Jamestown Exposition / Jane Roy Brown -- Wisconsin. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Parks / William Grundmann -- Afterword / Robin Karson -- Appendix 1. Employees listed in Manning's financial records -- Appendix 2. U.S. map of projects -- Appendix 3. Published writings of Warren H. Manning