Horace Cleveland

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Horace William Shaler Cleveland (1814–1900) was an early pioneer of American landscape architecture. He was a distant relative both of President Grover Cleveland and of the wife of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Cleveland was educated as a civil engineer, before becoming a landscape gardener. His first notable design was Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. He later designed the renowned park system of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota as well as an only partially completed design for Omaha, Nebraska, and was partially responsible for portions of the Chicago, Illinois park system while working for Frederick Law Olmsted.

Cleveland's approach was summarised in his seminal work, Landscape Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West, published in 1873. Concerned about the rapid growth of American cities, especially in the Midwest and the Great Plains, he called for better sanitation, park systems and stronger public planning laws.

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