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Charles Wellford Leavitt
Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928) was an American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer who designed everything from elaborate gardens on Long Island, New York and New Jersey estates to federal parks in Cuba, hotels in Puerto Rico, plans of towns in Florida, New York and elsewhere. New York publisher Julius David Stern called Leavitt "a rare combination of engineer, artist, and diplomat", and the multi-faceted career chosen by Leavitt, veering between public and private commissions and embracing everything from hard-edged engineering to sensuous garden design, and calling for negotiations with everyone from wealthy entrepreneurs to county commissioners, called for an individual with singular talents.〔Memoirs of the Maverick Publisher, Julius David Stern, Simon and Schuster, 1962, p. 154〕 Leavitt was one of the preeminent landscape architects of his era and helped found the study of landscape architecture at New York City's Columbia University, where he was one of the first three professors in the University's new four-year program in the discipline.
==Early life==
Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr. was born in Riverton, New Jersey, on March 13, 1871, the son of Charles Wellford Sr. and Sarah (Allibone) Leavitt.〔Charles Wellford Leavitt Sr. and Sarah (Allibone) Leavitt named another son William Foster Biddle Leavitt for the uncle of painter Cecilia Beaux, granddaughter of John Wheeler Leavitt.〕 He was educated at The Gunnery school in Washington, Connecticut, and the Cheltenham Military Academy in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania.〔The Leavitt family were originally from Suffield, Connecticut, and were family relations of the Philadelphia portraitist Cecilia Beaux, one of whose best-known paintings is of Sara (Allibone) Leavitt, mother of Charles Wellford Leavitt the architect. Cecilia Beaux frequently socialized with Charles Wellford Leavitt Sr. and his son Charles, Jr. () The Philadelphia portrait painter also executed a painting of Leavitt in 1911 entitled ''Portrait of Charles Wellford Leavitt, the Artist's Cousin''.〕 Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr. married Clara Gordon White at Essex Fells, New Jersey in 1899, and the couple subsequently had four children.〔The couple's four children were: Gordon, born in 1901; Kent, born in 1903; Charlotte, born in 1906; and Dundas, born 1910. Another daughter died in her infancy.〕
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