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