Stanley Hart Brewster ASLA (1902 - 1995)

Born 3 Jan 1902 in southport, Chemung, NY, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Erma Gorham (Shutts) Brewster — married 12 Oct 1935 in Syracuse, Onandaga, NY, USA

Died 9 Apr 1995 at age 93 in Deposit, Broome, NY, USA

Biography

Stanley was born in 1902. He was the son of Walter Brewster and Florence Wright. He passed away in 1995. ^[1]

(Records of Quentin Cabell Smith and Stanley's resume): "received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Antioch College - 1926, and Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Ohio State University - 1927, given a scholarship, Lake Forest Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture, awarded Edward. L. Ryerson Traveling Fellowship for one year study in Europe. While in Italy and France he created, with his acute eye and artistic talent, a series of drawings and lithographs of favorite sights. Upon return to the States he worked in the office of Vitale & Geiffert, Landscape Architects, New York City, planning large estates, and later started his own design firm in Syracuse, New York, undertaking estate, park, and institutional projects. Later, following the stockmarket crash in 1929, Stanley was employed by the Federal Government's Department of the Interior designing shelters, bridges, walkways and cabins for the national forests of the US under the Civilian Conservation Corps. While with that department he designed Letchworth Park ('The Little Grand Canon of the East') on the Genesee River, in New York state. An assignment with the Department of Agriculture in 1935 sparked a series of professional activities within the federal service of the Roosevelt Administration, in its vast efforts to bring the country out of the Depression, and Stanley's contributions to that goal continued for more than thirty years. They were directed principally to the land planning design, research and development aspects of most kinds of private, public, rural and urban housing. He helped initiate and launch the 1930s federally-sponsored Greenbelt Residential Communities, one of which stands maturely today in the Maryland suburbs of the nation's capital, in its own self-contained, fine quality, sought-after environment. He was Supervisor of the Washington Land Planning Office of the Rural Resettlement Administration, and later went with the Farm Security Administration as Chief of Planning and Engineering for its farm cooperative communities and other rural developments in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri. For several years he was with the U.S. Housing Authority as Chief Planner for its Low Rent Housing Projects in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. During World War II he was Chief Planner for the Federal Public Housing Authority. With the Federal Housing Administration, for many years he was Land Planning Consultant for projects in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C . until his retirement in 1966. He continued design and consulting services for his local community. Just after starting his government career, Stanley bought a large acreage south of Washington, commanded by an historic stone farm house to which he commuted from the Capital daily during his more than thirty-year federal career. He spent his remaining years after about 1985 on his 55-acre farm in Broome County, New York with his daughter and son-in-law. Stanley was an Emeritus Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America.

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Sources

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Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Quentin Smith, Thursday, September 26, 2013.

Acknowledgments

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