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Landscape architecture -- Designs and plans

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Audubon Park Drawings Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SEAA-046
Scope and Contents

This collection includes drawings featuring improvements to Audubon Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, including a design by the Olmsted Brothers (from Boston, Massachusetts) for a park pavilion; blueprints for the aviary at the Audubon Park Zoo by Walter Cook Keenan (from New Orleans, La.); and an 1894 map showing Horticultural Hall (built for the 1884 Cotton Centennial Exposition, destroyed in 1915 by a hurricane), and the race track.

Dates: 1894-1948

William S. Wiedorn Office Records

 Collection
Identifier: SEAA-021
Scope and Contents

This collection of records, from New Orleans landscape architect William S. Wiedorn (1896-1990)'s office, includes project drawings of public and recreational, educational, and residential commissions in New Orleans, across Louisiana, and throughout the United States. Sketchbooks of study drawings and and one photograph of Wiedorn are also maintained.

Dates: 1921-1974