The Country Place Era, which occurred from the 1890s to the late 1920s, saw several woman landscape practitioners come to prominence including Beatrix Farrand, the designer of Dumbarton Oaks and Dumbarton Oaks Park, according to landscape historian Judith Tankard. Farrand, the only woman founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in 1899, was raised in an upper-class, literary New York family; Edith Wharton was her aunt. She grew up taking summer vacations to Reef Point, ME, where she developed an admiration for garden design. Her training in landscape architecture and ecology was self-designed and included a European tour and an informal apprenticeship with Charles Sprague Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard, one of the most preeminent practitioners in the field. She married historian and library director Max Farrand in 1913. Over the course of her 50-year career as a landscape gardener, Farrand completed more than 200 designs, including university plans (Yale University, Princeton University, Occidental College) and a garden at Woodrow Wilson’s White House. She was known for her restraint in planting, her maintenance plans, and her use of and advocacy for native plants, all of which can be seen at Dumbarton Oaks Park.
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