Andrew Jackson Downing, Visionary
Sometimes, the direction of a nation’s evolution can pivot on one person being in the right place at the right time. Take Andrew Jackson Downing, a mid-19th-century architect, landscape architect and visionary, for example. He was brought up in his family’s nursery business in Newburgh, N.Y., 50 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River. [...]
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