Ellen Biddle Shipman


General Information


Occupation: Landscape Architect

Date of Birth: 1869

Date of Death: 1950

Birth City: Philadelphia

Birth State/Province: Pennsylvania

Birth Country: United States

Resident State/Province: South Carolina

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.


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Notable Projects


Title: Gardens at Longue Vue

City: New Orleans

State: Louisiana

Country: United States

Url: http://www.longuevue.com/

Notes: The gardens are among the largest and last remaining public gardens designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman


Title: Duke University Gardens

State: North Carolina

Country: United States


Title: Gardens at the Cummer Museum of Art

City: Jacksonville

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 1931

Url: http://www.cummer.org/gardens/gardens.htm

Notes: Inspiration for the Italian Garden came from the Villa Gamberaia near Florence, Italy. Known for its Anglo-Italian design and distinct arches, Shipman was asked to design a similar garden. The Cummer Italian Garden is considered a signature piece in Shipman's oeuvre of residential gardens and is one of the few Shipman gardens still in existence.


Education


Institution: Private Tutoring by Charles Platt

Notes: Platt was a leading landscape designer and architect and he introduced in America a formal garden revival inspired by the Italian villa. His most notable commissions were Faulkner Farm, Charles Sprague's estate in Brookline, Massachusetts; Gwinn, William Mather's property near Cleveland, Ohio; and Villa Turicum, the country holdings of Harold and Edith Rockefeller McCormick in Lake Forest, Illinois.


Institution: Columbia University

Degree: Masters of Architecture


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Publications About


Title: The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman

Author: Judith Tankard

Publication: book

Notes: Received the 1998 American Horticulture Society's Annual book Award