Purcell and Elmslie, Architects

Firm active: 1907-1921

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Henry B. Babson residence, landscaping
Jens Jensen, landscape architect
Purcell and Elmslie
Riverside, Illinois 1914

Text by William Gray Purcell

Parabiographies entry, Volume for 1914

Job Date (in Parabiography): December 3, 1914

Babson Garden

I have referred to this before.  See notes.  Annotations by WGP [referrring to the two renderings by Elmslie for the garden layout]: "These 'posters' by George --are just that.  Jensen know what was needed--Babson told George it would take a squad of gardeners."

Collection: William Gray Purcell Papers, Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota [AR:B4d1.8]
Research courtesy Mark Hammons