Abstract
Beginning with the 1841 publication of his Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America, the writings of Andrew Jackson Downing have had a powerfully formative effect on the practice of architecture and landscape gardening in this country. Regional responses to Downing's theories, however, tended to be idiosyncratic; this study examines evidence of their influence in antebellum Georgia, where a small group of individuals — some of whom were related to a mid-century movement for agricultural reform — chose to follow them in preference to dominant regional styles.
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