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Fletcher Steele
Fletcher Steele (June 7, 1885 – July 16, 1971) was an American landscape architect credited with designing and creating over 700 gardens from 1915 to the time of his death.
Early life.
Steele was born John Fletcher Steele in Rochester, New York, United States to a lawyer father and pianist mother, graduated from Williams College in 1907, and promptly joined the young landscape architecture program at Harvard University where Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. was one of his professors. In 1908 Steele left Harvard
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- Robin Karson, "Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Gardenmaker's Life, 1885-1971", Timber Press, 1989. .
- Robin Karson, "Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Gardenmaker's Life, 1885-1971", Rev. Ed. Amherst : Library of American Landscape History : Distributed by University of Massachusetts Press, c2003. .
External links and sources.
- The Fletcher Steele Archives at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry