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Ernest Bowditch
Bowditch, c. 1900
Born
William Ernestus Bowditch

April 10, 1850
DiedApril 10, 1918(1918-04-10) (aged 67)
Burial placeMount Auburn Cemetery
OccupationArchitect
Relatives

Ernest William Bowditch (April 10, 1850 – May 22, 1918) was an American landscape architect and engineer who worked on 2,500 projects and designs.

[1]

William Ingersoll Bowditch House

Peabody & Stearns, Cabot & Chandler

Grandson of Nathaniel Bowditch https://archive.org/details/lighthousesofmai0000cald/page/182/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Uncle: Henry Ingersoll Bowditch

Cousin: Charles Pickering Bowditch, Henry Pickering Bowditch

Wife was elected Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America https://archive.org/details/registerofmassac00mass/page/448/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+w+bowditch%22

Works[edit]

With Peabody & Stearns[edit]

Vinland Estate

The Breakers (1878)

Hillside

Allen Winden[2]

Coldbrooke[2]


Shadow Brook, Stockbridge/Lenox[2]

Belvoir Terrace[2]https://archive.org/details/papersoffrederic0000olms/page/28/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Auburndale, Topeka https://archive.org/details/fadeddreamsmoreg0000fitz/page/60/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Frederick Ferris Thompson https://archive.org/details/midatlanticstate0000durh_r3s8/page/252/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22 https://archive.org/details/groundsforpleasu0000otis/page/40/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Outer Park System https://archive.org/details/handbookofartino006042mbp/page/n29/mode/2up?q=bowditch

Rogers Fort Hill Park https://archive.org/details/RogerFortHillParkHistoricDistrict/page/n7/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

The Elms (Newport, Rhode Island) https://archive.org/details/gardenloversguid0000benn/page/58/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Marble House

Osgood Hill https://archive.org/details/Town_Crier_2017-10-18_202301/page/n11/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Walnut Hills Cemetery (Brookline, Massachusetts)

Cleveland Cultural Gardens

Tuxedo Park, New York / Tuxedo, New York

Shoreby Hill Historic District

Colgate University

Sonnenberg Gardens https://archive.org/details/gardenloversguid0000benn/page/104/mode/2up?q=%22bowditch%22 https://archive.org/details/fingerlakeswiner0000klee/page/18/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Whitemarsh Hall https://archive.org/details/goldenageofameri0000gris_n6h4/page/32/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Shoreby Hill https://archive.org/details/jamestown0000butt/page/70/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

https://archive.org/details/statehousehistor12jenk/page/140/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Sewerage of Nahant https://archive.org/details/sim_american-architect-and-architecture_1883-11-10_14_411/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

https://archive.org/details/sim_enr_1894-05-03_30_18/page/376/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+w+bowditch%22

Greycourt State Park / Charles H. Tenney

Lake View Cemetery

Beleden House

Essex Fells, New Jersey

Eustis Estate https://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcpra/praslideshow18/praslideshow18-milton.html https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/2019/07/31/historic-new-england-hosts-talk/4568824007/

Col. Thomas Peirce Estate https://archive.org/details/naturesretreatfo00brow/page/n123/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

https://archive.org/details/guidebooktonewpo0000pres/page/58/mode/2up?q=%22bowditch%22

https://archive.org/details/60hikeswithin60m0000stre/page/46/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Shaker Lake Park https://archive.org/details/pioneersofameric00char/page/n85/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Aspinwall Hill with Frederick Law Olmsted https://archive.org/details/hubsmetropolisgr0000ocon/page/52/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

Informal partnership with Robert Morris Copeland


Trinity Church (Boston) -- engineer https://archive.org/details/makersoftrinityc00jame/page/74/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

https://archive.org/details/maineislandsinst00simp_0/page/178/mode/2up?q=%22ernest+bowditch%22

References[edit]

  1. ^ Murphy, Kevin D. (April 1989). Ward, Barbara McLean; Sullivan, Louise M. (eds.). "Ernest W. Bowditch and the Practice of Landscape Architecture". Essex Institute Historical Collections. 125 (2). Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute: 162–176. ISSN 0014-0953 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ a b c d Owens, Carole (1984). Schein, Jerome; Montgomery, Elizabeth; Smith, Claudia Chyle (eds.). The Berkshire Cottages: A Vanishing Era. Cottage Press, Inc. ISBN 0-918343-00-3. LCCN 84-71191 – via Internet Archive.