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Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr. Mount Assisi (Charles Schwab Estate, “Limestone Castle”) 1919, Loretto, Pennsylvania. ... 1365 North Astor St. Chicago, IL 60610 ;
1919, Dana and Murphy; Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr., landscape architect. PA 1001 and Manor Dr. NW (PA 1005) Now home to an order of Franciscan monks, this was first the summer home of Charles Schwab, Andrew Carnegie's trusted lieutenant and the first president of the United States Steel Corporation. Eager to occupy the new property he named ...
"Charles Wellford Leavitt, the Artist's Cousin" by Cecilia Beaux. 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.
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.
1920, Dana and Murphy, Charles Well ford Leavitt Jr., landscape architect. 439 Brick Rd. Charles Schwab, an uneasy combination of small-town boy and wealthy industrialist, asked his New York City architects Dana and Murphy to design a mansion and a farm in the village of Loretto. The farm, called the Norman Village, is located southeast of the ...
From 1925 to 1928, landscape architect Charles Leavitt Jr. designed the plans for the 550-acre Cooper River Park. From 1935 to 1939, Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration carried out the plans to create open, gently sloping landscapes and wooded areas for recreation by dredging meadows and tidal wetlands.
In the early 1920s, Leavitt’s firm became Charles Wellford Leavitt & Son, with the addition of his son, Gordon. Leavitt became a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1904, and held memberships in the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Consulting Engineers, serving as president of the latter in 1923.
