page_title: Lorrie Dunington-Grubb
section_title: Landscape architect
hierarchical_section_title: Lorrie Dunington-Grubb / Canada / Landscape architect
caption_attribution_description: English: 1913 Christmas card from Howard and Lorrie Dunington-Grubb
context_page_description: Lorrie Alfreda Dunington-Grubb was an English landscape architect. She moved to Canada in 1911 with her husband and business partner Howard Dunington-Grubb where they founded Sheridan Nurseries. She was active in garden design, a writer and a patron of the arts.
context_section_description: Howard and Lorrie moved to Toronto in 1911. They quickly became busy with commissions for the boulevards and parks of the Lawrence Park suburb of Toronto, and with private commissions for landscaping the gardens of new homes there.
  Lorrie Dunington-Grubb worked on her own or with her husband on the design of private and public gardens, garden suburbs and town planning projects.
  In 1913 they received commissions to prepare plans for the subdivisions of Colvin Park in Buffalo, New York, Oriole Park in Toronto and the Workman's Garden Village for the Riordan Pulp and Paper Company in Hawkesbury, Ontario. In Toronto they also designed the grounds of the Old Mill Tea Room, the Humber Valley Surveys and the 15-acre Chorley Park.
  Later works included the Rainbow Bridge Gardens and Oakes Garden Theatre in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the McMaster University entrance gardens and Gore Park in Hamilton, Ontario.
  The Dunington-Grubbs used sculpture and other artistic work in their garden designs, including the work of sculptors Fritz Winkler, Frances Loring and Florence Wyle and of painters J. E. H. MacDonald and Arthur Lismer.
  Thus the Italian Garden of the Parkwood Estate in Oshawa holds sculptures of Boy with a Goose by Winkler, Boy with Dolphin and Lady and the Shell by Wyle, Girl with the Squirrel by Loring and Boy on a Dolphin by Cleeve Horne.
  Their work in the Royal Botanical Gardens (1929) and the Niagara Parks in the 1930s reflects the ambivalent mood of the time in which native plants were seen as patriotic, but imported plants were also included as oddities and freaks.
caption: 1913 Christmas card from the Dunington-Grubbs
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