Robert Wheelwright
American landscape architect, 1884–1965
In 1926, Wheelwright opened a firm with Markley Stevenson in Philadelphia and went on to design gardens for the private estates Valley Garden and Goodstay, Wilmington, Delaware; Pierce House, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; and Spite House, Rockport, Maine, the latter two of which exemplify his prolific use of the Colonial Revival style. While estates remained his focus, Wheelwright designed a public housing project in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Fort Christina Park in Wilmington, Delaware, and the World War II cemetery, St. Laurent, along Omaha Beach in Normandy, France.
(from The Cultural Landscape Foundation)
An accomplished watercolor painter, Wheelwright and his wife Ellen du Pont Wheelwright exhibited work in exhibitions at the Delaware Art Museum, including a four-person show (with Edward L. Grant and Henryette S. Whiteside) in the summer of 1950.
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