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...Oaks in Washington, DC. It was a fairly comprehensive article; however, it failed to make any mention of the fact that an alternative site for such a building exists, within the property holdings of Dumbarton Oaks, which would in no way disrupt the highly cherished garden designed by Beatrix Farrand...
...Frederick Law Olmstead is the father of landscape architecture, Beatrix Farrand is the mother," Rowe says...
Keenan, says he agrees that the garden must be preserved as a place that is "simply beautiful." But he says focusing on the garden simply because it was created by Farrand, can create a undesirable impulse to freeze the site in time...
They will also commission a major cultural landscape report in order to determine Farrand's exact wishes for the site and how they can build without harming her garden...
Although the architects hope to build an entire building below Farrand's garden, under the section of the lawns known as the North Vista, they say that their project will only force the removal of four mature trees from the site, two of them not even planted by Farrand...