Andrew Jackson Downing was an American landscape designer, horticulturalist

Horticulture

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, and writer

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, a prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival style in the United States, and editor

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  of The Horticulturist magazine (1846–52). Many scholars consider Downing to be "The Father of American Landscape Architecture."
Downing was born in Newburgh, New York, United States

United States

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, to Samuel Downing (a nurseryman and wheelwright) and Becky Crandall.