East Coast Trip

East Coast Trip

Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip Elwood takes students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. Places visited on the trip include - "Longwood", DuPont gardens near Wilmington, Del. ; R. T. Stotesbury gardens, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Jacques Grebey, Landscape Architect ; the Wissahickon Parkway, Philadelphia ; "Old Ironsides" or "USS Constitution, built 1794, rebuilt in 1927, docked at New London, Conn. ; and, new Harvard University dormitories along the Charles River .
Also the garden of Gerard Foster, Bellefontaine, Lenox, Mass. and the forecourt showing the replica of the famous Boboli goats ; home of P. H. Elwood Jr., Fort Plains, New York ; looking toward Cooperstown from along Otsego Lake, New York, site of Leatherstocking tales ; in the garden of the late E. Gorton Davis, Ithaca, New York ; Creeping Bent Hall ; Cleveland Art Museum and garden ; four representatives of Iowa State College at the Lake Forest Foundation for Architects and Landscape Architects ; and the Rierson Garden, Lake Forest, Ill.

P. H. Elwood (Philip Homer), b. 1884

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1931

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