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Architect Report with photos/maps for Oakmont

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Title: Landscape Architects Illustrated Report on a Basic Program of Development for the Grounds-Golf Course & Other Areas, Oakmont Country Club
Author: Stiles, Ezra C., landscape/golf architect
Description: [33] pp. (typed text on recto sides only and includes plates). Illustrated with 7 pages on photographic paper including title (with photo image mounted), a full-page photograph, and 5 architectural course map drawings (1 in back of 18 holes at Oakmont). Also, with 31 original photographs laid down on typed text pages (with some black hand-coloring by the prepare of this book). Letter page in back signed by Ezra Stiles (architect/site planner). 10¾x8¼, black cloth with pictorial cover label reading: "Oakmont Golf Course & Club Areas."Oakmont Country Club is a prestigious "top five" country club and the "oldest top-ranked golf course in the U.S." This was a planned proposal for landscape/caretaking work to be done on this historic course. The course, designed by Henry Fownes, first opened in 1903. All the greens are still original except for the 8th, which was moved several yards to the left to make way for the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the late 1940's. Includes additional related items laid-in: 12 photographs, folding pictorial booklet, recent Oakmont patch, etc.
Heading: (Oakmont Country Club)Place Published: [Oakmont]
Publisher: For Oakmont by Ezra C. Stiles
Date Published: [1955]