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Andrew Jackson Downing

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Noun1.Andrew Jackson Downing - United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852)Andrew Jackson Downing - United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852)


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The ‘true visionaries,’ as you call them in the book, behind Central Park were William Cullen Bryant and Andrew Jackson Downing.
The original urban plan of Pierre Charles L'Enfant in 1791-2, the landscape plan of Andrew Jackson Downing in 1851 and the McMillan plan of 1901-2 are important milestones in the history of urban planning in the United States.
First, we have the remarkable--the amazing--coincidence that while Olmsted and his friends ambled and rambled about the English countryside, Olmsted's hero, the Newburgh, New York-based landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing, visited London to find a sympathetic architect whom he might lure to America as an assistant.
 
 
 
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