American Society Of Landscape Architects

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American Society Of Landscape Architects

The Society was founded on January 4, 1899 with the following goals:

To establish landscape architecture as a recognized profession in North America;

To develop educational studies in landscape architecture; and

To provide a voice of authority in the "New Profession".

Its founding members were:

Nathan Barrett

Beatrix Jones Farrand

Daniel W. Langton

Charles N. Lowrie

Warren H. Manning

Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.

John Charles Olmsted (the Society's first president)

Samuel Parsons, Jr.

George F. Pentecost, Jr.

Ossian Cole Simonds

Downing Vaux (son of Calvert Vaux )

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