Herbert J Kellaway (1867–1947)
Entry 20
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
A major figure among landscape architects in the United States, Kellaway
learned his art and craft in Frederick Law Olmsted’s office. He
began to practise independently in 1906, and was elected a Fellow of
the American
Society of Landscape Architects in 1912. Expert in laying out home plantings,
he published How to Lay Out Suburban Home Grounds in 1907.
Kellaway’s plan features a Washington-like mall framed by boulevards
in a diamond composition. To do this he relocates the railway route to
run on the west of the city, requiring a tunnel under Kurrajong. The
plan reflects both an assured and mature talent in large-scale planning,
and
the influence of the 1902 Senate Park Commission proposals for Washington.
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