Elizabeth J. Bullard
General Information
Occupation: Landscape Architect
Date of Birth: January 01, 1847
Date of Death: January 01, 1916
Birth City: Sutton
Birth State/Province: Massachusetts
Birth Country: United States
Resident City: Bridgeport
Resident State/Province: Connecticut
Resident Country: United States
Notes: Identified by several writers as "the first professional woman landscape architect" in the United States
Sources: Krall, Daniel W. "The Illusive Miss Bullard : First Professional Woman Landscape Architect." Landscape Journal 21 (2002): 116-122. ; Birnbaum, Charles A., and Robin Karson, eds. Pioneers of American Landscape Design : An Annotated Bibliography. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000.
Specialties
Subject: Garden and Public Park Design
Jobs
Employer: Frederick Law Olmsted
Title: Assistant to her father, Oliver Crosby Bullard, Landscape Architect
Country: United States
Notes: Frederick Olmsted and Oliver Bullard met while serving in the United States Sanitary Commission following the outbreak of the Civil War (1863)
Employer: Smith College
City: Northampton
State: Massachusetts
Country: United States
Notes: her exact role is unclear, although she did correspond with the Olmsted firm about plantings while working at Smith College
Title: Landscape Designer
Start Date: October 01, 1890
Notes: following the sudden death of her father in October of 1890, Bullard finished his commissions and began her own work in Bridgeport
Collaborators
Name: Oliver Crosby Bullard
Project: various
Notes: Bullard's father and mentor
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
Name: Fellow of the Professional Society for Landscape Architects
Description: first new member selected by the founding group
Date Received: January 01, 1899
Exhibitions
No exhibitions on record
Notable Projects
No projects on record
Education
No education on record
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
Organization: American Park and Outdoor Art Association
Role: Member
Organization: American League for Civic Improvement
Role: Member
Organization: ASLA
Publications By
Title: How a City Gained a Park
Publication: Garden and Forest
Volume: 2
Issue: May 8
Page: 226
Date Published: May 08, 1889
Publications About
Title: The Illusive Miss Bullard : First Professional Woman Landscape Architect
Author: Daniel W. Krall
Publication: Landscape Journal
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Page: 116-122
Date Published: January 01, 2002
Notes: Paper presented at the joint ASLA-CELA conference in Boston, Sept. 1999.
Title: Fifty Years in Retrospect: A Brief Account of the Origin and Development of the ASLA
Author: Bremer W. Pond
Publication: Landscape Architecture Magazine
Volume: XL
Issue: 2
Page: 59-66
Date Published: January 01, 1950
Title: Imagining Utopia: Landscape Design at Smith College, 1871-1910
Author: Lisa Chase
Publication: The New England Quarterly
Volume: 65
Issue: 4
Page: 560-586
Publisher: The New England Quarterly, Inc.
Date Published: December 01, 1992
Notes: discusses Bullard's employment at Smith College
Title: Transactions of the American Society of Landscape Architects from Its Inception in 1899 to the End of 1908
Author: Harold A. Caparn, J. Pray, and D. Vaux (ed.s)
Publisher: J. Horace McFarland Company
City: Harrisburg
State: Pennsylvania
Country: United States
Date Published: January 01, 1909