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Loring Underwood was born at Belmont, Massachussets, the youngest of three children of William James and Esther Crafts (Mead) Underwood. His grandfather, William Underwood, emigrated to Boston from England in 1817.
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Loring Underwood was born at Belmont, Massachussets, the youngest of three children of William James and Esther Crafts (Mead) Underwood. His grandfather, William Underwood, emigrated to Boston from England in 1817.
Underwood completed his preparatory work at the Noble & Greenough School, Boston and entered Harvard College, from which he received the degree of A. B. in 1897. The year 1898-99 he spent in study at the Bussey Institution at Harvard, and the following year he spent in travel and study abroad. In Paris he attended the Ecole d'Horticulture, studying under Edouard Andre, the celebrated French landscape architect.
On his return from abroad in 1900 Underwood established his home in Belmont and soon afterwards began the practice of his profession in Boston, where he maintained an office until his death. During the World War he rendered notable service as landscape architect of the housing development at Bath, Me. , one of the United States Housing Corporation's villages for war workers.
He was also a member of the Fuel Administration. In 1919 Laurence S. Caldwell joined him as partner. Although he was landscape architect for the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, and other New England institutions, designed several subdivisions, and was for many years consulting landscape architect for Vassar College, it is not so much for these as for the many smaller home gardens which he designed that he will be long remembered. His field was largely New England.
He was much sought after as a lecturer upon old New England gardens, and upon village and landscape improvement. His lectures were illustrated by lantern slides made by a direct color process, in the use of which he was a pioneer. For the display of these lantern slides he invented an ingeniously devised five-sided standard with interior illumination.
Of a generous nature and keenly interested in all that pertained to his chosen profession, he gave freely of his time and abilities in many positions of responsibility. He was at one time president of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects. At the time of his death he was a member of the visiting committee of the School of Landscape Architecture of Harvard University, a director of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and a trustee of the Lowthorpe School.
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Member of the Fuel Administration
Member of the visiting committee of the School of Landscape Architecture of Harvard University
On October 14, 1897, Underwood married Emily Walton of Newark, New Jersey. They had three daughters.