Gardens of Eden
Subtitle: Long Island's early twentieth-century planned communities
By: edited by Robert B. MacKay
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780393733211
Subjects: City planning; Garden cities; Planned communities; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: The residential park phenomenon on Long Island  -- Robert B. MacKay; title: Garden City : American versions of utopia  -- Richard Guy Wilson; title: A modern Venice : H.O. Havemeyer's Bayberry Point  -- Anne Walker; title: For teacher's only : Plandome and its companions  -- Robert B. MacKay; title: From Flatbush to Shinnecock Hills : Dean Alvord's idea  -- Robert B. MacKay; title: Mrs. Marsh's Bellerose  -- Virginia L. Bartos; title: Kensington and Douglas Manor : the Rickert-Finlay Realty Company  -- Kevin Wolfe; title: Long Beach : Senator William H. Reynold's city by the sea  -- Anthony W. Robins; title: The thousand-acre city by the sea : T.B. Ackerson's Brightwaters  -- Richard F. Welch; title: Great Neck Estates : Harvey Stewart McKnight and the McKnight Realty Company, 1907-1916  -- Ellen Fletcher Russell and Sargent Russell; title: Paul V. Shields at Great Neck : Great Neck Villa and Grenwolde  -- Ellen Fletcher Russell and Sargent Russell; title: Carl Graham Fisher and Montauk Beach : "I just have to see the dirt fly!"  -- Ellen Fletcher Russell and Sargent Russell; title: Robert Burton's Woodmere  -- Millicent D. Vollono; title: The grand scheme : Felix Isman, Ernestus Gulick, and the creation of Jamaica Estates  -- Carl Ballenas and the Aquinas Honor Society; title: Robert Weeks de Forest : Forest Hills Gardens and Munsey Park  -- Virginia L. Bartos; title: Hapgood's Shoreham : arts and crafts by the sea  -- Mary Ann Oberdorf and Joseph Falco; title: Beacon Hill : a gem in the diadem  -- Lynn Stowell Pearson; title: Surf and controversy : Realty Associates & Neponsit  -- Robert B. MacKay; title: Gondolas in Copiague : Victor Pisani, Isaac Meister, and the creation of American Venice, 1925-1929  -- Mary Cascone; title: Old Field South  -- Richard F. Welch; title: What if? Planned communities that might have been -- Robert B. MacKay.