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    Andrew Jackson Downing (October 31, 1815 – July 28, 1852) was an American landscape designer, horticulturist, writer, prominent advocate of the Gothic...
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    The Andrew Jackson Downing Urn, also known as the Downing Urn, is a memorial and public artwork located in the Enid A. Haupt Garden of the Smithsonian...
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    Parish commissioned the design from Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux, whose office was based there. Downing's trip to visit the building site with...
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    Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency, he gained...
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    endure the country's return to classical forms. His partnership with Andrew Jackson Downing, a major figure in horticulture, landscape design, and domestic...
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    publication by Alexander Jackson Davis of Rural Residences and from detailed plans and elevations in publications by Andrew Jackson Downing. Carpenter Gothic...
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    garden Moongate pool Andrew Jackson Downing Urn in the Enid A. Haupt Garden Andrew Jackson Downing Urn and parterre Andrew Jackson Downing Urn and the Smithsonian...
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    of Andrew Jackson began on March 4, 1829, when Andrew Jackson was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1837. Jackson, the...
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    Henry statue (1883) Below the Smithsonian Institution Building Andrew Jackson Downing Urn (1856) Above the Arts and Industries Building Smithsonian Carousel...
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  • Downing is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Antoinette Downing (1904–2001), American historian Andrew Jackson Downing (1815–1852)...
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    Carpenter Gothic style of Andrew Jackson Downing, a pioneer in American landscape architecture. William, and his wife Mary, used Downing's book, Cottage Residences...
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    through special publications and annual reports. During this period Andrew Jackson Downing and his brother Charles were prominent in pomology and horticulture...
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    recently married Caroline DeWindt Downing, widow of his friend the influential Newburgh architect Andrew Jackson Downing, with whom Withers had worked. They...
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    Gothic Revival architectural movement in America, headed by native Andrew Jackson Downing with English architects Calvert Vaux and Frederick Clarke Withers...
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    and Out Buildings (1852), written during his correspondence with Andrew Jackson Downing. American Cattle: Their History, Breeding and Management. (1868)...
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    their mentor, Andrew Jackson Downing, a Newburgh native who had died in a steamboat accident on the Hudson River in 1852. Most of Downing Park was a farm...
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    George E. & F. W. Woodward. "Andrew Jackson Downing". tclf.org/. The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Downing, Andrew Jackson (1859). The Architecture of...
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    with a cupola. It is an example of the "Country Homes" style of Andrew Jackson Downing, a pioneer in American landscape architecture.[citation needed]...
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    prominent American horticulturist and burgeoning architect Andrew Jackson Downing. Withers and Downing later became family, as they married sisters: Emily Augusta...
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    architecture typified by Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing in the mid-19th century. Andrew Jackson Downing advocated "truth in architecture"...
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    The first inauguration of Andrew Jackson as the seventh president of the United States was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1829, at the United States Capitol...
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    example of Gothic Revival architecture, based on the designs of Andrew Jackson Downing. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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    of President's Park, was redesigned by Andrew Jackson Downing in 1851–1852. Amongst the changes in Downing's plans were the installation of urns in the...
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    Italianate styles within American architectural practice—Andrew Jackson Downing, Alexander Jackson Davis, James H. Dakin, Russell Warren, and Calvin Pollard...
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    of the original park plan as designed by Andrew Jackson Downing in 1852. They may have been designed by Downing, or his assistant Calvert Vaux. The urns...
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    2011-10-24. Retrieved 2013-06-07. The Architecture of Country Houses, Andrew Jackson Downing, 1859, p. 157 https://books.google.com/books?id=r4bUdkIhHXEC The...
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    intact, and Davis's only surviving neoclassical country house. Andrew Jackson Downing praised the landscapes of the estate, work he had informally consulted...
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    The question of whether Andrew Jackson—who lived from 1767 to 1845, and was president of the United States from 1829 to 1837—had been a "negro trader"...
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    influential Andrew Jackson Downing with assistance of Calvert Vaux prior to the former's death. The landscaping was completed and remains Downing's most intact...
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    warming and ventilating by the great landscape designer and architect Andrew Jackson Downing. The three-story brick mansion with Gothic Revival style features...
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