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American landscape designers in the early 20th century adapted from the
18th and 19th century "romantic" style a less restrained, asymmetrical
approach to their craft. This period, roughly between 1890 and 1940, has
been called the "Golden Age" of American gardens. Warren Manning,
one of America's premier landscape architects, was noted for creating
naturalistic, rambling designs with the land and its natural topography
serving as his primary inspiration. Thus Manning was the perfect landscape
architect for the Seiberlings, and it was Manning who encouraged F.A.
and Gertrude to purchase the property on which Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens
stands.
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