Gardens of Eden: Long Island's Early Twentieth-century Planned Communities

Gardens of Eden: Long Island's Early Twentieth-century Planned Communities
ISBN-10
0393733211
ISBN-13
9780393733211
Series
Gardens of Eden
Category
Architecture
Pages
303
Language
English
Published
2015
Publisher
W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Authors
PhD, Robert B Mackay

Description

In the early twentieth century, luminaries such as Grosvenor Atterbury, Charles W. Leavitt Jr., and Frederick Law Olmsted designed dozens of high-end, carefully conceived communities on New York's Long Island.Gardens of Eden covers the history and development of more than twenty of these remarkable communities and the colorful, at times unscrupulous personalities behind them—like Plandome, designed “for teachers only,” and the Metropolitan Museum's Munsey Park, where all the streets were named for artists—with writings from their most knowledgeable historians.

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