When Sidney J. Hare (1860–1938) and S. Herbert Hare (1888–1960) launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would become the most influential landscape architecture and planning practice in the Midwest. Over time, their work became increasingly far-ranging, in both its geographical scope and its project types. Between 1924 and 1955, Hare &amp; Hare commissions included fifty-four cemeteries in fifteen states; numerous city and state parks (seventeen in Missouri alone); more than fifteen subdivisions in Salt Lake City; the Denver neighborhood of Belcaro Park; the picturesque grounds of the Christian Science Sanatorium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; and the University of Texas at Austin among fifty-one college and university campuses. In Hare &amp; Hare: Landscape Architects and City Planners Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein document the extraordinary achievements of this little-known firm and weave them into a narrative that spans from the birth of the late nineteenth-century “modern cemetery movement” to midcentury modernism. Through the figures of Sidney, a “homespun” amateur geologist who built a rustic family retreat called Harecliff, and his son Herbert, an urbane Harvard-trained landscape architect who traveled Europe and lived in a modern apartment building, Grove and Millstein chronicle the growth of the field from its amorphous Victorian beginnings to its coalescence as a profession during the first half of the twentieth century. Hare &amp; Hare provides a unique and valuable parallel to studies of prominent East and West Coast landscape architecture firms―one that expands the reader’s understanding of the history of American landscape architecture practice.

Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners (Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design Ser.)

Biographies & Memoirs

Grove, Carol

Millstein, Cydney

Arts & Literature

University of Georgia Press

Described as neither east nor west nor north nor south, Missouri served, for much of the 19th century, as America s gateway to somewhere else, the half-point to the western frontier. It has been home to the nation s richest farmers, ambitious immigrant entrepreneurs, and American visionaries Mark Twain and Thomas Hart Benton. Their houses were quirky mid-American interpretations of East Coast and European idioms distilled by homegrown architects. At Westmoreland Place, Portland Place, and Parkview in St. Louis and the model Country Club District in Kansas City, progressive civil engineers, planners, and landscape designers transformed wheat fields and flower-strewn prairies into sophisticated planned communities that remain to this day the best places in town to live. With nearly 300 archival photographs, drawings, and original floor plans, HOUSES OF MISSOURI, 1880 1940, offers an intimate tour behind the facades of 45 purely American houses. Among these are Greystone, the pastoral Gothic cottage of Major Emory Foster in Pavely; Oak Hill, the opulent mansion of the legendary Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson; the iconoclastic machine in the prairie, Samuel Marx-designed Ladue residence for department store magnate Morton May; and Chatol, the striking Art Moderne farmhouse in rural Boone county. The authors bring to life the fortunes, motivations, and aspirations of their wealthy and upstanding house owners who rigorously defined what was suitable and respectable living in America s heartland.

Houses of Missouri: 1870 1940 (Suburban Domestic Architecture)

Arts & Photography

Millstein, Cyndey

History & Criticism

Acanthus Pr Llc

The story of two remarkable Victorian-era landscapes created by Englishman Henry Shaw for his adopted city, St. Louis. Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: http://lalh.org/

Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park

Regional U.S.

University of Massachusetts Press

Carol Grove chronicles Englishman Henry Shaw's remarkable story, from his early love of plants to his rising social conscience and his determined quest to create a place of unsurpassed beauty and distinction that would educate and thereby improve Americans. Beautifully illustrated with contemporary and historical photographs, this volume offers an insightful cultural history of Shaw's landscapes at the Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park, among the most important examples of the gardenesque in America.

Library Of American Landscape History

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