For the last few weeks, most people in Washington, D.C. have been feverishly counting down the days until the presidential election. Not me. As soon as the leaves began to turn, I was eagerly ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Evans’s historical sleuthing, which focuses on Connecticut history, has inspired documentaries for ...

The leading landscape designer of the turn of the 20th century had a list of clients that reads like a who’s who of the Gilded Age: J.P. Morgan, Theodore Roosevelt, first lady Ellen Wilson, John D.

A prominent figure in the history of American landscape design, Beatrix Farrand née Jones (1872-1959) was the mastermind behind the idyllic grounds of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden on Mount ...

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (8th : 1980 : Washington, D.C.) https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. At age 27, Farrand was the only woman of 11 founders of the ...

Two major events took place this past week — the summer solstice and the second birthday of our granddaughter, Lyla. What better way to celebrate both than to go for a walk in the park with Millie, ...

“Beatrix Farrand is full of surprises,” says Karyl Evans, a six-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. “She is the niece of (Pulitzer Prize-winning author) Edith Wharton and the family she was ...

This morning, I walked to Dumbarton Oaks a sprawling estate, high above Georgetown. Gail Griffin, the director of gardens and grounds there, kindly introduced me to Rigoberto "Rigo" Castellon, a crew ...