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

Parabiographies entry, Volume for 1910
Text by William Gray Purcell
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 knew what was needed--Babson told George it would take a squad of gardeners."

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