Martha Brookes Hutcheson

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Martha Brookes Hutcheson
Born
Martha Brookes Brown

(1871-10-02)October 2, 1871
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died1959 (aged 87–88)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLandscape architect

Martha Brookes Hutcheson (October 2, 1871 – 1959) was an American landscape architect, lecturer, and author, active in New England, New York, and New Jersey.

Biography

Hutcheson was born in New York City as Martha Brookes Brown, and as a child spent her summers on a family farm near Burlington, Vermont. From 1893 to 1895 she studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, and in the late 1890s toured Europe where she studied gardens in England, France, and Italy. As Hutcheson later wrote in The Spirit of the Garden:

About 1898, one day I saw the grounds of Bellevue Hospital in New York, on which nothing was planted, and was overcome with the terrible waste of opportunity for beauty which was not being given to the hundreds of patients who could see it or go to it, in convalescence. In trying to find out how I could get in touch with such authorities as those who might allow me to plant the area of ground, I stumbled upon the fact that my aim would be politically impossible, but that there was a course in Landscape Architecture being formed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the first course which America had ever held.[1]

In 1900 she entered

MIT's new landscape architecture program at age 29, where she studied for two years before leaving without degree in 1902. She subsequently designed the grounds of several residential estates near Boston, most notably Frederick Moseley's large Newburyport estate, 1904-1906 (now Maudslay State Park), and the garden at Alice Mary Longfellow's house (now the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site) in Cambridge
.

She also was the landscape architect for the Poplar Hill and Welwyn estates in Glen Cove, New York.[2]

After Hutcheson's marriage in 1911, she retired from commercial practice but she began to landscape her own garden (5 acres) on the couple's 100-acre (0.40 km2) farm in

allées, and farm buildings. This farm, with garden, is now preserved as the Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education Center.[3]

In 1935 she was named a fellow in the

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
), most of her works have been lost.

Gallery

Selected works

References

  1. ISBN 1-55849-272-0
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  2. ISBN 9780393731248
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  3. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Merchiston Farm". National Park Service. Retrieved May 11, 2018. With accompanying pictures

External links

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