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Andrew Jackson Downing

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Gender Male
Death171 years ago
Date of birth October 31,1815
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Newburgh
New York
United States
Date of died July 28,1852
DiedHudson River
United States
Structures Springside Landmark
Beechwood
Job Architect
Landscape architect
Known for Gothic
StyleCarpenter Gothic
Siblings Charles Downing
Designed Springside Landmark
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID1354745

Cottage residences
The architecture of country houses
Victorian cottage residences
A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening
Rural essays
The Fruits and Fruit-trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit-trees Generally : with Descriptions of All the Finest Varieties of Fruit, Native and Foreign, Cultivated in this Country
Andrew Jackson Downing: Essential Texts
Landscape Gardening
Cottage Residences: Or, A Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage Villas, and Their Gardens and Grounds, Adapted to North America
Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture
The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste: Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, Etc
Pleasure Grounds: Andrew Jackson Downing and Montgomery Place
The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Volume 16
The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste; Volume 12
Downing's Encyclopaedia of Fruits and Fruit Trees of America
The Complete House and Grounds: Learning from Andrew Jackson Downing's Domestic Architecture
The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste; Volume 22
Selected Fruits: From Downing's Fruits and Fruit-trees of America. With Some New Varieties: Including Their Culture, Propagation and Management in the Garden and Orchard
The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Volume 17
A Visit to Montgomery Place
Hints to Persons about Building in the Country. by A. J. Downing . . . and Hints to Young Architects. Calculated to Facilitate Their Practical Operation
Gardening for Ladies
The Flower- Garden
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America; with a View to the Improvement of Country Residences . . . with Remarks on Rural Architecture. by the Late A. J. Downing, Esq
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America; With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds And. . .
The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit Trees Generally; with Descriptions of All the Finest Varieties of Fruit, Native and Foreign, Cultivated in this Country
The Fruit and Fruit Trees of America: The Culture and Propagation of Fruit Trees with Descriptions of the Varieties
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America; with a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds and Arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds, the Formation of Pieces of Artif
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Andrew Jackson Downing was an American landscape designer, horticulturist, and writer, a prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival in the United States, and editor of The Horticulturist magazine. Downing is considered to be a founder of American landscape architecture.

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