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The grounds were sculpted by the nationally known landscape engineer Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr., whose works ranged from country estates, colleges, and town plans to racetracks and sewage plants. (Leavitt was hired by the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates to design Forbes Field in Pittsburgh in 1909—his only design for a baseball stadium.)
Born in Riverton, NJ, Charles Wellford Leavitt, Jr., received his early education at the Gunnery in Washington, CT, and at Cheltenham Academy in Cheltenham, PA. He began his career as an engineer in 1891, and by 1893 had secured a position with the New York Suburban Land Company.
Mount Assisi (Charles Schwab Estate, “Limestone Castle”) 1919, Loretto, Pennsylvania
Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928) was an American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer who designed everything from elaborate gardens on Long Island, New York and New Jersey estates to federal parks in Cuba, hotels in Puerto Rico, plans of towns in Florida, New York and elsewhere. New York publisher Julius David Stern ...
The sculpted landscape design was conceived by Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr., whose varied career included designing estates for the Whitney and Jewett families, and working closely with Schwab on the design of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The river was ideal for industry in Camden, where many immigrants worked in the factories along its banks. From 1925 to 1928, landscape architect Charles Leavitt Jr. designed the plans for...
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