Jim Cothran
404-577-4000
j.cothran@robertco.com

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Class One: Class Overview

Class Requirements, Project Assignments

Class Two: Historic Landscapes/Resources

Tishler, Williams H. American Landscape Architecture - Designer and Places. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1989, pp. 142-145

Favretti, Rudy J. and Putnam, Joy. Landscape and Gardens for Historic Building.Nashville, Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History, 1991, pp. 26-37.

Georgia's Living Places: Historic Houses in their Landscape Settings, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, 1991.

Class Three: The Garden in History

Carpenter, Phillip. Plants in the Landscape. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1996, pp. 13-39.

Class Four: History Plants, Botanists and Naturalists

Dutton, Joan Parry. Plants of Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, pp. 1-12, 1590179.

Morton, Julia F. "Plants of the Deep South - Native and Exotic," in American Garden Heritage. Edited by Dorothy Manks, New York, 1968.

Cheston, Emily. John Bartram. Published by the John Bartram Association, 1953, pp. 3-36.

Woodburn, Elizabeth. "Horticultural Heritage - Future Promise: The Influence of U.S. Nurserymen." in Agricultural Literature: Proud Heritage - Future Promise. Washington, DC: Graduate School Press, 1977.

Manks, Dorothy. "How the American Nursery Trade Began," in American Garden Heritage, edited by Dorothy Manks, New York, 1968.

Class Five: Colonial Gardens

Favretti, Rudy J. and Putnam, Joy. Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings. Nashville, Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History, 1991, pp. 11-15.

American Society of Landscape Architects. Colonial Gardens. Washington, DC: George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1932, pp. 183-194.

Kochen, A. Lawrence and Dearslyne, Howard. Colonial Williamsburg - Its Building and Gardens. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, 1949, pp. 34-42.

Class Six: Georgia Chapter Southern Garden History Society Meeting

Class Seven: The Southern Colonies

Hendrick, U.P. A History of Horticulture in American to 1860. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1988, pp. 118-142.

Howett, Catherine. "Graces and Modern Majesties, Landscape and Garden Traditions of the American South," in Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America, edited by Walter Punch. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1992.

Cothran, James R. Gardens of Historic Charleston. University of South Carolina Press, pp. 22-43.

Cooney, Loraine M. Garden History of Georgia. The Peachtree Garden Club, 1933, pp. 15-17; 21-27.

Mitchell, William. Gardens of Georgia. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, pp. 9-15.

Class Eight: Gardens of the New Republic

Favretti, Rudy J. and Putnam, Joy. Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings. Nashville, Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History, 1991, pp. 26-37.

Hendrick, U.P. A History of Horticulture in American to 1860. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1988, pp. 169-195.

deForest, Elizabeth Kellman. The Gardens and Grounds at Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon, Virginia: The Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, 1982, pp. 23-35; 79-81.

Class Nine: The Antebellum South

Hendrick, U.P. A History of Horticulture in American to 1860. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1988, pp. 227-301.

Cothran, James R. "Parterre Gardens of the Old South: A Treasured Tradition," in The Southern Heirloom Garden. Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1995.

Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 2-12.

Class Ten: Fredrick Law Olmsted

Tishler, Williams H. American Landscape Architecture - Designer and Places. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1989, pp. 38-43

Newton, Norman T. Design of the Land. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press, 1976, pp. 267-289.

Class Eleven: Historic Trees and Tree Preservation Efforts

Guest Lecturer

Class Twelve: Historic Cemeteries / Botanical Symbolism in Cemetery Art

Guest Lecturer

Leighton, Ann. American Gardens of the Nineteenth Century. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1987, pp. 228-248.

Favretti, Rudy J. and Putnam, Joy. Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings. Nashville, Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History, 1991, pp. 37-49.

Class Thirteen: The Country Place Era / Documenting and Preserving Historic Landscapes

Favretti, Rudy J. and Putnam, Joy. Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings. Nashville, Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History, 1991, pp. 51-66.

McGuire, Diane Kostial. Gardens of America. Charlottesville, Virginia: Thomasson Grant, 1989, pp. 103-105.

Hood, David Foard. "The Renaissance of Southern Gardening in the Early Twentieth Century," in Journal of Garden History, Vol. 16, Number 2, Summer 1996.

Newton, Norman T. Design of the Land. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press, 1976, pp. 427-446.

Class Fourteen / Fifteen: Presentation of Research Papers