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Rose Standish Nichols (1872–1960) was an American landscape architect from Boston, Massachusetts. Nichols worked for some 70 clients in the United States and abroad. Collaborators included David Adler, Mac Griswold, Howard Van Doren Shaw, and others. She also wrote articles about gardens for popular magazines such as ''House Beautiful'' and ''House & Garden,'' and published three books about European gardens.〔In Spanish Gardens; Landscape Architecture in Southwestern Europe. New York Times, Jan 4, 1925. p.BR20.〕〔Judith Tankard. Introduction to: Rose Standish Nichols. English pleasure gardens. Boston: David R. Godine, 2003.〕 ==Biography== Nichols was the daughter of Arthur H. Nichols and Elizabeth Fisher Homer Nichols, and a niece of Augustus Saint-Gaudens.〔(Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site )〕 Her siblings included Margaret Homer A. Shurcliff (married to Arthur Shurcliff) and Marian Clarke Nichols. Rose Nichols lived most of her life at 55 Mt. Vernon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. Nichols trained with Charles A. Platt, Inigo Trigs; Constant-Désiré Despradelle at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; with Benjamin Watson at the Bussey Institute, Harvard University; and at the École des Beaux-Arts.〔Eran Ben-Joseph, Holly D. Ben-Joseph, Anne C. Dodge. Against all Odds: MIT’s Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, City Design and Development Group, 2006.〕 She also travelled in Europe, visiting parks and gardens such as those at Hampton Court Palace, England. Around 1921 Nichols served the American Society of Landscape Architects as Chairman of the Committee on the Garden Club of America.〔Transactions of the American society of landscape architects, 1909-1921.〕 In addition to her professional work as a landscape architect, Nichols was a peace activist. She established a discussion group, The League of Small Nations; participants included Mabel Harlakenden Hall Churchill (wife of the American novelist Winston Churchill) and Edith Wilson. The group was a precursor to the Foreign Policy Association. Nichols also traveled to peace conferences in Europe.〔〔Philip Brady. Twin role for historic house on Beacon Hill. New York Times, Apr 17, 1966. p.437.〕 In addition, she helped establish the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02035 )〕 In 1919 Nichols was elected an officer of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association.〔Mary H. Page heads Suffrage Association. Boston Daily Globe, Mar 27, 1917; p.9〕 In 1937, Nichols attended an event organized by the New York Society of the Descendants of Signers of the Independence Declaration.〔Patriotic group has dinner party; Descendants of Signers of the Independence Declaration Meet at Sherry's. New York Times, Mar 7, 1937; p.87.〕 Portraits of Nichols have been made by Taylor Greer and Margarita Smyth. 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「Rose Standish Nichols」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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