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Peets, Elbert was born on May 5, 1886 in Cleveland. Son of Edward Orville and Mary (Houghton) Peets.
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Peets, Elbert was born on May 5, 1886 in Cleveland. Son of Edward Orville and Mary (Houghton) Peets.
Born in Ohio, Peets received an undergraduate degree from Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, in 1912 and a master’s degree in landscape architecture from in 1915. After graduation, he taught horticulture at Harvard.
Peets worked primarily in Wisconsin, Cleveland, and Washington, District of Columbia In 1916 he began a collaboration with the German planner and critic Werner Hegemann and in 1922 they published a seminal work of city planning, “The American Vitruvius: An Architect’s Handbook of Civic Art”. After Hegemann returned to Europe in the early 1920s, Peets practiced on his own for the next decade, continuing to write about topics ranging from Baroque cities to tree care. During the Great Depression, Peets joined the United States. Farm Resettlement Administration (1935-1938) and served as chief of the site planning section for the United States. Housing Authority until 1944.
After World World War II he worked as a consultant to such clients as the National Capital Planning Commission.
He served on the United States. Commission of Fine Arts from 1950 to 1958 and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities between 1950 and 1960. His planning projects include several with Hegemann, among them the new towns of Kohler, Washington Highlands (in Wauwatosa), and Lake Forest, Wisconsin.
Wyomissing Park, Pennsylvania. Park Forest, Illinois.
Bannockburn, Maryland.
And Greendale, Wisconsin, one of three greenbelt cities developed by the Resettlement Administration in the 1930s. Peets designed Greendale around a central green space that terminated in a town hall based on the Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Served as civilian engineer in camp planning section War Department, World War I.