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Ralph Griswold played an instrumental role in Pittsburgh’s park system. ...
Griswold was born in Warren, Ohio in 1894. ...
After Griswold had received his master’s degree he went to work at Bryant Fleming’s office in Buffalo, New York. ... (Shah 151-152)
In 1927 Griswold moved to Pittsburgh and started his own private practice, focusing on residential design. ...
During much of the time Point Park was being planned Griswold worked on various other projects, and gained a sincere fondness for historic landscape preservation. ...
“’I like to dream of the time’”, Griswold once said, “’ when there will be landscape scholars who can take their place among scholars in historical research’. ... (Shah 155)
Griswold then moved to Virginia, in the early 1960’s, where he researched the gardens of Colonial Williamsburg. ...
Garden history and preservation were always important to Griswold, and he devoted much of his long career to evaluating the historical context of the sites he was involved in, and furthermore tying modern elements to their history in revitalization designs.
Approximate Word count = 794
Approximate Pages = 3.2
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