Low-key genius
Subtitle: the life and work of landscape-gardener, O.C. Simonds / Barbara Geiger
Publisher: Ferme Ornée Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Evanston, IL]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780983209904
Subjects: Gardeners; Biography; Gardening
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Family background and early years, 1630-1878.  Ancestors in New England ; The move to Grand Rapids ; Adventist beliefs ; Simonds's youth ; William LeBaron Jenney: teacher and employer ; Early Chicago cemeteries and drainage problems; title: Graceland: the beginning of a masterpiece, 1878-1885.  In good taste ; The Byran and Lathrop families' influence at Graceland ; Graceland's neighborhood ; Simonds at Graceland ; Chicago ; Lathrop introduces Simonds to landscape gardening ; Partnership with Holabird ; Superintendent full-time ; Fort Sheridan ; Another cemetery designer comes to town ; Sheridan Park; title: Professional and personal growth, 1885-1892.  First published articles ; Horticulture and design in Illinois and Iowa ; Simonds's professional progress ; Ravenswood social life ; Property in Pier Cove ; First professional organizations; title: A spreading network of professional relationships, 1892-1897.  The Columbian Exposition and Olmsted ; Graceland's crematorium ; "A more rational view of death" ; Quincy Parks ; Golf in Chicago; title: The founding of the American Society of Landscape Architects, 1897-1900.  The American Park and Outdoor Art Association ; "The landscape gardener and his work" ; "Residence streets" ; A new affiliation with Graceland ; American Society of Landscape Architects ; Professional organizations and club memberships ; The House beautiful ; International recognition and a growing practice; title: The park era, 1899-1903.  Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association ; University of Wisconsin campus ; Long View Park, Rock Island ; Charles Garfield's efforts in Michigan ; Eugene Davenport ; Parks and engineers ; Rockliffe Mansion and Hannibal ; Simonds's park expertise ; The University of Chicago; title: Early twentieth-century work, 1903-1912.  New project with Lathrop ; Publications with L.H. Bailey at Cornell ; More midwest projects ; Lake Forest ; Clients from Graceland ; The Carpenters and the Houghtelings ; Brucemore and Cedar Rapids ; Country estates ; Ann Arbor parks ; The Arboretum at University of Michigan ; University of Michigan landscape-gardening program ; Riverview Park, Hannibal ; Simonds in Evanston ; Elsewhere in Evanston ; Victor Lawson's Lone Tree Farm ; Illinois and Michigan Canal Road; title: Contending with the "Prairie spirit", 1911-1916.  Madison subdivisions ; Rock River projects ; Sinnissippi Farm ; President of the ASLA ; Indian Hill Club ; Kincaid, Illinois: the coalectric city ; The prairie becomes a style; title: Collaboration with two prominent clients: Morton and Noyes, 1915-1925.  Working with Noyes ; Simonds's career and his mentor Bryan Lathrop ; World War I years ; International Garden Club ; Landscape-gardening ; Sargent and the Arnold Arboretum ; Joy Morton's Arboretum ; Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum ; Personal glimpses; title: "A better heritage for later days can no man leave", 1922-1960.  York Harbor ; Florida ; ASLA works of members and a gold medal ; Some objections to landscape-gardening methods ; Working with the Bell family ; Honorary Master of Arts ; Simonds's last year ; Simonds's family legacy; title: Simonds & Company without Simonds, 1931-1956.  O.C. Simonds & Company ; J. Roy West ; After West ; Frank M. Button and Florida ; The Simonds family ; Current conditions; title: The Bryan and Lathrop families.  Laying the groundwork ; The family branches ; Florence ; Bryan Lathrop ; The Aldis in-laws ; Lathrop's cultural contributions ; Lincoln Park commissioners ; The prairie spirit ; And then there was Barbour ; David Fairchild, the Bells, and the Grosvenors ; Full circle: Robert Simonds, the Grosvenors, & York Harbor Hills; title: Appendix A: O.C. Simonds & Co. projects; title: Appendix B: Plant list.