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"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.
Beirne Lay, Jr. – Screenwriter, co-author of Twelve O'Clock High; Norman Lear – Emmy Award-winning TV and film producer, director and Oscar-nominated screenwriter; Jeannie Leavitt – First female USAF fighter pilot in 1993 and first woman to command a combat fighter wing
Pioneer Information. Born in Riverton, New Jersey, Leavitt received a private education at the Gunnery and the Cheltenham Military Academy. From 1891 to 1896, he gained experience in various aspects of civil engineering while working for the Caldwell (New Jersey) Railway; the New York Suburban Land Company; the town of Essex Fells, New Jersey ...
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 ...
Apr 15, 2015 · Leavitt was one of a group of about 80 women, known as “the Harvard Computers,” who worked at the Harvard Observatory at the turn of the century. The Computers were hired by the Observatory’s director, Edward Charles Pickering, to help catalog and analyze thousands of early photographs of the night sky. This assembly of scientifically ...
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. In 1894 Leavitt became city engineer for Essex Fells, NJ, and in ...
In 1899, William Merritt Chase declared her "the greatest woman painter of modern times." Resisting avant-garde styles like Impressionism, she remained a strongly individual figurative artist, renowned for her portraits of East Coast, Gilded Age society. Here, she portrays her cousin Charles Leavitt, a successful engineer and pioneering city ...
