She is buried with her family in Cave Hill Cemetery.Ĭlick here to see the project index for complete folder and box listing. For postgraduate education, Mary Louise attended University College in London, where she studied and sketched, during this time she also traveled and sketched throughout greater Europe (see: Mss. Mary Louise graduated from Simmons College as well as the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture in Groton, Massachusetts. Speed Art Museum, National Society of Colonial Dames of American, and the Second Presbyterian Church. She was President of the Louisville Society of Landscape Architects, member of both the American Society for Landscape Architects and Glenview Garden Club. Mary Louise was both a landscape architect and a gardening columnist for The Courier-Journal. The landscape architecture program at West Virginia University strives to equip students with techniques and skills through problem-solving in design theory. Rose Speed a letter from a soldier stationed at Fort Ridgely, Minnesota Territory, 1855 a letter from Virginia Beach, Va.,, describing the scenery and houses there a pamphlet entitled “The Speed Picnic, July 4, 1881” and exams of Mary Louise Speed on ecology, horticulture, botany, soils and landscape design.Ī native of Nelson County, Kentucky, Mary Louise Speed was born on Januto Richard Canby Speed (1855-1907) and Emma Lilly Fullenwider (1858-1913). 17 items Ĭollection of miscellaneous items that includes a memorial, 22 Feb. Tracings made at the British Library illustrate French garden design, as well. Pressed flowers and travel memorabilia are found tucked inside the book.
Sketches of gardens, houses, cottages, and gates are also included. Diary describes the observed flora and fauna species and their characteristics, as well as garden and estate designs. Travel diary and sketchbook made by landscape architect Mary Louise Speed during her May-September 1930 trip to England. Researchers should utilize the project index for a complete listing of project type, location, and date. The collection’s latest drawing is from 1964 and features garden sketches and design for Mrs. The earliest drawings date back to Mary Louise Speed’s time at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture in Groton, Massachusetts, where, in 1931, she completed her thesis, designing “Moxley Hall,” the country estate of Richard Canby. Majority of the drawings are rooted in Kentucky and Indiana but other, less frequent locations, include: Ohio, Maryland, North Carolina, Connecticut, and Florida.
This collection includes 321 landscape drawings from residential, commercial, educational, to funerary. Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Special Collections. Title: Landscape architecture drawings, 1931-1964
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