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Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr. married Clara Gordon White at Essex Fells, New Jersey in 1899, and the couple subsequently had four children. [5]
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.)
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He published articles about residential landscapes in Country Life and House and Garden, and he taught in Columbia University’s incipient four-year landscape design program, beginning in 1912. Leavitt passed away suddenly at the age of 57, at the height of his career.
Leavitt, Charles Wellford, Jr. (1871 - 1928) -- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings. Born: 1871, Died: 1928. 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.
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This is a photo of CHARLES W LEAVITT, one of many post-war pictures collected by the author of the "History of the Sixteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers", for use in the book, published in 1897.
