biography
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| lived:
| (1859–97)
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| biography:
| Landscape architect, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The son of Charles William Eliot, he graduated from Harvard University and studied horticulture before becoming an apprentice to Frederick Law Olmsted (1883). Taking a year off to study European landscape design, he came back to open his own Boston firm (1886), creating parks for small New England and midwestern cities, including Youngstown, OH. A regular contributor to Garden and Forest Magazine in 1890, he wrote Waverly Oaks outlining a strategy for conserving a stand of virgin trees (in Belmont, MA) and existing flora elsewhere. This led to the formation of the Massachusetts Trustees of Public Reservations (1891), the first state-funded conservation group. Joining the Olmsted brothers in 1893, he formulated a forestry plan to include existing growth in the firm's design for the Boston Metropolitan Parks Commission, before his untimely death in 1897. In 1900 Harvard University established the first university course in landscape architecture in his memory. |
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