death_date death_place birth_place nationality significant_design birth_date article_title name
september 19 , 1946 warsaw , new york buffalo , new york united states cheekwood botanical garden and museum of art 1877 bryant fleming
 bryant fleming
bryant fleming

bryant fleming -lrb- 1877 -- september 19 , 1946 -rrb- was a buffalo , new york-born landscape architect .
he graduated from cornell university in 1901 , where he studied horticulture , architecture , architectural history , and art .
in 1904 , fleming became the first lecturer and instructor in landscape art in the department of landscape art in the college of agriculture at cornell , the third such program in the united states after harvard -lrb- 1900 -rrb- and the university of massachusetts -lrb- 1902 -rrb- .
he served as head of the department from 1906 -- 1915 and in 1925 was appointed as university landscape advisor to cornell .
in 1904 he established a private practice named townsend and fleming -lrb- 1904 -- 1915 -rrb- .
he helped guide the development of parks in new york state , including letchworth state park and the restoration of watkins glen state park , fair haven beach state park , fillmore glen state park , robert h. treman state park , taughannock falls state park , cedar point state park , kring point state park , and waterson point state park .
in addition , he served with warren h. manning -lrb- 1860 -- 1938 -rrb- and others on a comprehensive campus plan for cornell .
for 30 years fleming and his associates had an extensive residential design practice all over the country , including estates in belle meade , tennessee , and the design of cheekwood botanical garden and museum of art , a estate where fleming guided the design of the landscape , architecture , and interiors .
active in the profession as a teacher and mentor , he died on september 19 , 1946 .
