Beatrix Farrand

Born in New York in 1872, Beatrix Farrand became one of the most important landscape designers in the United States. She preferred the term “landscape gardener,” and her work was known for blending architecture, planting, and the natural character of a place into a unified whole.

Over the course of her career, she designed roughly 110 projects, including private estates, college campuses, public parks, botanic gardens, and work connected to the White House. She was also the only woman among the founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a remarkable achievement in her era.

Some of her best-known surviving landscapes include Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and work at places such as Princeton and Yale, as well as projects in Maine connected with her later years. She spent her final decades developing Reef Point in Bar Harbor as a center for horticulture and design, leaving behind an influence that continues to shape American garden history.