Victorian Cottage Residences While 90 percent of Theophilus's

While 90 percent of Theophilus's writing is sound technical knowledge

— Erica Schaper

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Victorian Cottage Residences While 90 percent of Theophilus'sAndrew Jackson Downing (1815 52), the first great American landscape gardener, was one of the earliest and most influential popularizers of something new on the American scene the small, inexpensive detached house. Into a countryside dotted with log cabins and occasional Greek Revival mansions, he introduced the tasteful, efficient cottage residence in all its variations, including Gothic, bracketed, Italianate, and "rustic." His enormously successful