Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

For other people named Elizabeth Rogers, see Elizabeth Rogers (disambiguation).

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (born 1936) is a landscape designer, landscape preservationist and writer, whose lasting memorial is the revitalization of Central Park, New York City, under her guidance as the first Central Park Administrator,^[1] and through the Central Park Conservancy, a private not-for-profit corporation that was founded, largely through Rogers' efforts, in 1980 to bring citizen support to the restoration and renewed management of Central Park.

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. A graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in art history, and of Yale, she was born in San Antonio, Texas, and moved permanently to New York in 1964. She founded a program in Garden History and Landscape Studies at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, in 2001, and directed it until 2005. In that year the American Society of Landscape Architects presented her with its LaGasse Medal for her achievements.

A discreet bronze plaque on a boulder on the slope above the Diana Ross Playground honors her service to Central Park.

She is the author of a number of books:

The Forests and Wetlands of New York City (New York:Little, Brown) 1971. Recipient of the John Burroughs Medal.
Frederick Law Olmsted's New York (New York:Whitney Museum/Praeger), 1972.
The Central Park Book (Central Park Task Force, 1977)
Rebuilding Central Park: A Management and Restoration Plan (MIT Press, 1987).
Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (New York: Abrams) 2001).

Footnotes

↑ The position in the New York City Department of Parks, once held by Frederick Law Olmsted, was revived after a century for Rogers by Mayor Edward I. Koch in 1979.

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Geographical features	Cedar Hill Cherry Hill Conservatory Garden Conservatory Water Great Lawn / Turtle Pond Harlem Meer Onassis Reservoir The Pond and Hallett Nature Sanctuary The Ramble and Lake Seneca Village Sheep Meadow

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Other features	Arsenal Belvedere Castle Bethesda Terrace and Fountain Blockhouse Bridges Burnett Memorial Fountain Carousel Delacorte Theater Diana Ross Playground Fort Clinton Lasker Rink Mall Marionette Theatre McGowan's Pass McGown's Pass Tavern Richard Morris Hunt Memorial Rumsey Playfield Strawberry Fields Tavern on the Green Victorian Gardens Wollman Rink Zoo Escape hoax Zoo York Wall Zoo York

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