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Ezra C. Stiles (September 26, 1891 - January 27, 1974)〔(Cemetery Records from Dorseyville Cemetery )〕 was an American landscape architect. He also worked as an urban planner, writer, mapmaker, and painter.〔(Collection of Ezra C. Stiles, 1916-1953 )〕 A descendent of Yale University president Ezra Stiles, Ezra Clarke Stiles was born in Painted Post, New York, and graduated from Penn State in 1914 with a degree in Forestry and Landscape Architecture. He began as a community planner in Charlotte, North Carolina, as an employee of John Nolan, a landscape architect in Boston. In 1915, he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to become a draftsman for A.W. Smith, a garden design and florist firm.〔("Ezra C. Stiles, A Re-introduction" ), PHLF News, December 1997.〕 In 1926, Stiles founded a landscape architecture firm in Pittsburgh, and ultimately became known as one of the region's top landscape architects. Among his clients were prominent Pittsburgh families (the Scaifes, Corsons, Frownes, and Garmens); corporations (Carnegie Steel Works and Rockwell Manufacturing Corporation), universities (Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina), and city planners (he designed two city parks to mark Pittsburgh's bicentennial).〔 In 1938, he laid out the McKeesport Rose Garden and Arboretum in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania.〔(Garden Club of McKeesport Rose Garden and Arboretum: About Us )〕 In the 1960s, Stiles' firm worked with two others to expand the Allegheny County park system.〔(Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Allegheny County Parks )〕 Stiles wrote at least three books: * (''Framing the Home Landscape'' ) with Pittsburgh Steel Company (1929). 20 pp. * (''Rock Gardening for the Small Place'' ) (Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935) 94 pp. * (''The Silver Sturgeon'' ) He and historian Paul C. Bowman drew a (lavishly illustrated map ) of the American Expeditionary Force's participation in World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive; it is preserved by the Library of Congress.〔(Historical map American Expeditionary Force / Ezra C. Stiles, cartographer and Paul C. Bowman, historian. )〕 Other maps depicted Pittsburgh in 1899〔(WorldCat listing: "Pittsburgh in 1889" )〕〔(Map: "Pittsburgh in 1889" )〕 and Frick Park in 1938.〔(Pictorial map Frick Park, 1938 )〕 He had at least one son, Ezra C. Stiles Jr. (1921-1957), who served as a captain in the U.S. Army Air Forces.〔 Some of Stiles' papers and drawings are preserved by the University of Pittsburgh.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ezra C. Stiles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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