Abstract
A profile of the landscape architect William Lyman Phillips, focusing on his work in Florida. Born in 1885, he studied at Somerville Latin School in Somerville, Massachusetts, from where he graduated in 1904. He earned his A.B. at Harvard University in 1908, following which he completed the graduate program in landscape architecture at Harvard in 1910. Between 1910 and 1925 Phillips worked on a range of landscape design projects throughout North America. In 1925 he moved to Lake Wales, Florida, and began to work on Mountain Lake Sanctuary with Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. This collaboration was to continue for the rest Olmsted Jr.'s life and led to Phillips long career in Florida, which coincided with the state's boom years from the 1930s to the 1960s. Among the notable garden and public park schemes in Florida designed by Phillips and discussed in the article are Greynolds Park, North Miami (1936), Matheson Hammock, Coral Gables (1936) and Fairchild Tropical (c1940). Phillips died in 1966. The article is illustrated with numerous photographs, maps and sketches of these projects.