Griswold , Ralph E. (Ralph Esty),, 1894-1981
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1894 - 1981
Biography
Ralph Esty Griswold was a landscape architect. He was born Warren, Ohio, August 22, 1894 and married Dorothy Elizabeth Griffith, 1920. He lived in Williamsburg, Virginia and was consulting landscape architect for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C. He died in 1981.
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Dumbarton Oak Garden, Ellipse
Sub-Series — Folder 15Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001Scope and Contents:
Twenty four black and white photographs and 4 color photographs of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Ellipse.The plans for the Ellipse were the result of close collaboration between Beatrix Farrand and Mildred Bliss. The basic outline of the design first occurred to Mildred Bliss as a child, and she consulted on the original design and all subsequent changes. The Ellipse began as a loose oval hedge of tall, rumpled boxwoods about fifteen to twenty feet high. The hedge followed the slope...
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