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Beatrix Jones Ferrand's
Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown

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Beatrix Jones Ferrand: An American Landscape Gardener
Lecture by Christine Thompson ADED 08027
Saturday, May 10, 3:30 – 5 P.M. Members $15, nonmembers $17.50
Join us for afternoon tea and a colorful presentation on one of the 20th century’s foremost landscape architects, Beatrix Jones Ferrand. Ferrand opened her landscape design office in New York in 1895. In 1899 she joined Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles Eliot, and others in founding the American Society of Landscape Architects. During her fifty-year career, Farrand designed approximately 200 gardens. Among her major projects were Dartington Hall in Devonshire, England, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C., the Rockefeller Estate in Maine, and projects for Princeton and Yale Universities. Refreshments will be served.
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