Martha Brookes Hutcheson


General Information


Occupation: Landscape Architect, Garden Designer, Writer

Date of Birth: January 01, 1871

Date of Death: January 01, 1959

Birth City: New York

Birth State/Province: New York

Birth Country: United States

Resident City: New York

Resident State/Province: New York

Resident Country: United States

Sources: Birnbaum, Charles A., and Robin Karson, eds. Pioneers of American Landscape Design : An Annotated Bibliography. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000. ; Davidson, Rebecca W. "Designing Woman: Martha Brookes Hutcheson." Introduction. The Spirit of the Garden. By Martha B. Hutcheson. Amherst: University of Massachusetts P, 2001.


Specialties


Subject: Residential Garden Design


Jobs


Employer: private practice

Title: Landscape Architect

City: Boston

State: Massachusetts

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1902

End Date: January 01, 1906


Employer: private practice

Title: Landscape Architect

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1906

End Date: January 01, 1920


Collaborators


No collaborators on record


Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


No awards on record


Exhibitions


No exhibitions on record


Notable Projects


Title: Alice Longfellow's Craigie House

Description: now the Longfellow National Historic Site

City: Cambridge

State: Massachusetts

Country: United States


Title: Frederick Moseley's Newburyport estate

Description: now Maudslay State Park

State: Massachusetts

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1904

End Date: January 01, 1906


Title: Undercliff

City: Manchester

State: Massachusetts

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1902

End Date: January 01, 1906


Title: Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Stout estate

City: Red Bank

State: New Jersey

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1916

End Date: January 01, 1920


Title: Harold and Harriet Pratt place

Description: in Glen Clove

City: Long Island

State: New York

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1911

End Date: January 01, 1913


Education


Institution: New York School of Applied Design for Women

Start Date: January 01, 1893

End Date: January 01, 1895


Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department: Landscape Architecture

Start Date: January 01, 1900

Notes: left in 1902 without a degree


Licensing



Professional Affiliations


Organization: American Society of Landscape Architects

Role: Fellow

Start Date: January 01, 1935


Publications By


Title: The Spirit of the Garden

Date Published: January 01, 1923

Notes: reprinted by University of Massachusetts Press in 2001


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