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Historic Green Spring
Braddock Rd, Lincolnia,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
38° 49' 28.57944",
-77° 9' 38.1924"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
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Historic Green Spring Marker No: GA-46. A 1784 brick house, a spring house, and a designed landscape showcase the unique 1942 collaboration of two American masters of design, Walter Macomber and Beatrix Farrand. Green Spring is the only known place where both designers '
Last updated: work is extant. Macomber, restoration architect for Colonial Williamsburg and Mount Vernon, completed a Colonial Revival rehabilitation of the buildings that reflected the growing popularity of the style for domestic architecture. Farrand, the sole female member of the American Society of Landscape Architects at its founding in 1899, designed the gardens around the brick house with her trademark clarity of outline and transition from formal to informal landscapes. |
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Historic Green Spring Historical Marker Location Map, Lincolnia, Virginia Map
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