Payson (Ellen Louise) Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings, 1913-1941

Authors

Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine

Files

Description

Ellen Louise Payson was born in Portland, Maine in 1894, and trained as a landscape architect at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women in Groton, Massachusetts. She gained widespread recognition for her designs for private estates in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York.

The collection consists of about 525 architectural drawings including landscape architecture plans, contour drawings, planting diagrams and blueprints. There are also detailed drawings of fences, garden paths, outbuildings and gates. The drawings were done mostly in the 1920s and 1930s primarily for clients in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, with a few for clients in Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri and North Carolina.

Publication Date

2016

Keywords

Architecture

Disciplines

History

Size of Collection

525 items (76 folders)

Dates of Collection

1913-1941

Manuscript Number

SpC MS 0390

Recommended Citation

Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine, "Payson (Ellen Louise) Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings, 1913-1941" (2016). Finding Aids. Number 299.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/findingaids/299