Beatrix Farrand, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Beatrix Farrand

American landscape architect

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1872

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 28-Feb-1959

Profession: architect, landscape architect

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (née Jones; June 19, 1872 – February 28, 1959) was a landscape gardener and landscape architect in the United States.
Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House.
Only a few of her major works survive: Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden on Mount Desert, Maine, the restored Farm House Garden in Bar Harbor, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden (constructed after Ferrand's death, using her original plans, and opened in 1988), and elements of the campuses of Princeton, Yale, and Occidental.Farrand was one of the founding eleven members, and the only woman, of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Beatrix Farrand is one of the most accomplished persons, and women, recognized in both the first decades of the landscape architecture profession and the centuries of landscape garden design arts and accomplishments.