Andrew Jackson Downing
1815–52
American landscape gardener, architect, and horticulturist. Commissioned to design the grounds for the White House and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington in 1851.
Source
DAB.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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