Resumen de Springside: A. J. Downing's only extant garden
Springside, located eighty miles north of New York City on the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, New York, is a landscape garden designed by Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852), America's most prominent mid-nineteenth century landscape architect/landscape gardener. From available documentation it appears that Downing presided over the layout of Springside from 1850, and participated in the garden's development during a two-year construction period. At the time of Downing's death, in the summer of 1852, Springside was a finely crafted, quintessential example of his landscape and architectural design themes. All other sites attributed to Downing are either unsubstantiated or changed beyond recognition. Springside represents the only remaining, documented, and unaltered example of A.J. Downing's work as a landscape architect/landscape gardener and as an architect.
