“Beatrix Farrand is full of surprises,” says Karyl Evans, a six-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. “She is the niece of (Pulitzer Prize-winning author) Edith Wharton and the family she was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. At age 27, Farrand was the only woman of 11 founders of the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Evans’s historical sleuthing, which focuses on Connecticut history, has inspired documentaries for ...

Americans are familiar with the name Frederick Law Olmstead because, among other great landscapes, he designed Central Park and Prospect Park in New York and Boston’s famed Emerald Necklace. But fewer ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The courtyard between Henry, Foulke, and 1901-Laughlin halls will be named the Beatrix Farrand Courtyard after famed landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, who worked at the University from 1912-1943 as ...

The last home and garden of the landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand, an intimate retreat she created here in 1955 at the age of 83, long has gone unnoticed, even by Farrand scholars. Tucked behind a ...

She was accompanying her aunt, American writer Edith Wharton, who along with other writers, artists and composers of the age also revered the light, architecture, landscapes and gardens of Italy.

Beatrix Farrand is famous for her stylish formal-garden design and for being the only female founding member of the American Society for Landscape Architects. On Tuesday evening, The Northwest ...

The leading landscape designer of the turn of the 20th century had a list of clients that reads like a who’s who of the Gilded Age: J.P. Morgan, Theodore Roosevelt, first lady Ellen Wilson, John D.

The last home and garden of the landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand, an intimate retreat she created here in 1955 at the age of 83, long has gone unnoticed, even by Farrand scholars. Tucked behind a ...