Landscape architecture

Scope and Contents Collection consists of about 525 architectural drawings including landscape architecture plans, contour drawings, planting diagrams and blueprints. There are also detailed drawings of fences, garden paths, outbuildings and gates. The drawings were done mostly in the 1920s and 1930s primarily for clients in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, with a few for clients in Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri and North Carolina. They demonstrate the process of landscape design through...

Abstract NA3131 Robert Hartford Cram, interviewed by Alice Mary Pierce, October 15, 1986, Falmouth Foreside, Maine. Cram, born April 20, 1904, talks about his background and family; moving to Yarmouth; moving to Falmouth; taking trolley to Portland High School; working as a janitor; drafting in high school; home life growing up; his grandparents in Baldwin, ME; family genealogy burned; siblings; telephone; landscape school (Newark, New York); Jackson Perkins (nursery); working as a landscaper; built...