Joseph Forsyth Johnson
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Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1850–1910(?)) was an English landscape architect and disciple of John Ruskin. He came to America in 1886 for the refurbishment of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York City. The park was overgown and his plan was to create a number of vistas where the entirety of the large park would be visible. That plan would have necessitated the removal of a large number of trees, which proved unacceptable to the community. As a result Johnson was terminated from the project.
A recommendation in 1887 by New York florist Peter Henderson convinced Joel Hurt to bring Johnson to Atlanta to work on his streetcar suburb, Inman Park. Johnson went to Atlanta and he spent the next five years there. He joined Hurt again for Piedmont Park.
In 1891, he designed Latta Park in Charlotte, North Carolina.
He was married to Francis Clark Johnson and they had three children: Roy Albert Johnson (1886–1939), Cecil Forsyth Johnson (1887–1951), and Edwina Johnson Mundy (1891–1969).
Finally Johnson moved back to England where he stayed until the end of his life.
[edit] Writings
- The Natural Principle of Landscape Gardening: Or the Adornment of Land for Perpetual Beauty, Archer and Songs, Belfast, 1874
- Residential Sites and Environments, Their Conveniences, Gardens, Parks and Planting, A.T.Delamare, New York, 1898
- The Laws of Developing Landscape, Showing How to Make Thickets and Woodlands Reveal Their Natural Beauty, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 29 (1904-1905), p.595-624
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