Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
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Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is a landscape designer, landscape preservationist
and writer, whose lasting memorial is the revitalization of Central Park
, New York, under her guidance as the first Central Park Administrator, and through the Central Park Conservancy, a private not-for-profit corporation that was founded, largely through Rogers' efforts, in 1980 to bring citizen support to the restoration and renewed management of Central Park.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. A graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in art history, and of Yale
, she was born in San Antonio, Texas, and moved permanently to New York in 1964. She founded a program in Garden History and Landscape Studies at the Bard Graduate Center
, New York, in 2001, and directed it until 2005. In that year the American Society of Landscape Architects
presented her with its LaGasse Medal for her achievements.
A discreet bronze plaque on a boulder on the slope above the Diana Ross Playground
honors her service to Central Park.
She is the author of a number of books:
Historic preservation
Historic preservation is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance...
and writer, whose lasting memorial is the revitalization of Central Park
Central Park
Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...
, New York, under her guidance as the first Central Park Administrator, and through the Central Park Conservancy, a private not-for-profit corporation that was founded, largely through Rogers' efforts, in 1980 to bring citizen support to the restoration and renewed management of Central Park.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. A graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in art history, and of Yale
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, she was born in San Antonio, Texas, and moved permanently to New York in 1964. She founded a program in Garden History and Landscape Studies at the Bard Graduate Center
Bard Graduate Center
The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture is a graduate institute affiliated with Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York....
, New York, in 2001, and directed it until 2005. In that year the American Society of Landscape Architects
American Society of Landscape Architects
The American Society of Landscape Architects is the national professional association representing landscape architects, with more than 17,000 members in 48 chapters, representing all 50 states, U.S. territories, and 42 countries around the world, plus 68 student chapters...
presented her with its LaGasse Medal for her achievements.
A discreet bronze plaque on a boulder on the slope above the Diana Ross Playground
Diana Ross Playground
The Diana Ross Playground is located in New York City's Central Park, inside the park at West 81st Street and Central Park West. Its namesake, the recording artist Diana Ross, who lives across the street in The Beresford, gave a fabled 1983 free concert in Central Park and pledged to fund the...
honors her service to Central Park.
She is the author of a number of books:
- The Forests and Wetlands of New York City (New York:Little, Brown) 1971. Recipient of the John Burroughs MedalJohn Burroughs MedalThe John Burroughs Medal, named for nature writer John Burroughs , is awarded each year in April by the John Burroughs Association to the author of a book that the association has judged to be distinguished in the field of natural history....
. - Frederick Law Olmsted's New York (New York:Whitney Museum/Praeger), 1972.
- The Central Park Book (Central Park Task Force, 1977)
- Rebuilding Central Park: A Management and Restoration Plan (MIT Press, 1987).
- Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (New York: Abrams) 2001).