RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Illusive Miss Bullard: First Professional Woman Landscape Architect
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 116
OP 122
DO 10.3368/lj.21.1.116
VO 21
IS 1
A1 Krall, Daniel W.
YR 2002
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/21/1/116.abstract
AB This article examines the life and professional work of little-known landscape architect Elizabeth J. Bullard of Bridgeport, Connecticut. With the abundance of recent writings on the early history of landscape architecture, including several excellent biographies of important practitioners, the author was intrigued by the possibility that there remained an individual, identified as the first woman to practice landscape architecture in this country, for whom no history had been written. In spite of a paucity of original sources and family history, the research undertaken has generated the following article. As with much historical research, the article raises many questions concerning Miss Bullard and the early years of the landscape architectural profession which remain to be answered by other researchers.