She is known particularly for her design of the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks for Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. She also worked on a number of projects with John D. Rockefeller.
Images of her drawings for the garden in the Oriental Institute Courtyard are published in:
Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959) : fifty years of American landscape architectureavailable online here.
Author: Diane Kostial McGuire; Lois Fern
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University, 1982.
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When I was a student (1994-2004), it was generally not possible to get into the courtyard. It could only be entered through a secured door in the basement, and it was essentially the private domain of a staff member. In ten years, I think I was in the courtyard twice. With this 2006 renovation, is it publicly accessible?
Someone closer than I am will have to respond about access these days. But wasn't the courtyard the location of the annual NELC New Student reception each September during those years Jason?
The courtyard is still basically inaccessible, although various rumors have floated about that maybe that could change (not in the near future, I suspect). The new NELC student reception is still taking place there, but the courtyard in general is very much under-utilized and I think there has been some brain-storming about ways to make it more useful.
I just came upon another blogger discussing the Farrand garden at the OI: Beatrix Farrand Garden at the Oriental Institute
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