![]() Growing up on the estate of his merchant and stockbroker father George Blake Grinnell, naturalist and Forest & Stream editor George Bird Grinnell took his earliest tutelage in natural history from their neighbor Lucy Audubon. The Audubon Homestead was built in 1842 by artist-naturalist John James Audubon and his wife Lucy, whose family nickname “Minnie” was given to the fourteen-acre farm they called “Minnie’s Land”. A revised history of both landscape architecture and conservation in New York might reach back farther to the older estates depicted in the images gathered here, which Wall Street brokers and bankers, publishers, department store magnates, and real estate speculators fashioned in concert with their wives, children, and hired hands. ![]() The 1860s - when the Blackwell survey concluded and the breaking up of the upper Manhattan estates started in earnest - is considered the beginning of American landscape architecture as a formal profession and practice.
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