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Abstract
Robert B. Cridland was a landscape architect practicing in Atlanta and Philadelphia during the early twentieth century who wrote Practical Landscape Gardening, a 1916 handbook of residential landscape design. In 1927, Cridland was enlisted to redesign the grounds of Oak Hill, home of Berry College’s founder, Martha Berry, near Rome, Georgia. This research analyzes Cridland’s work at Oak Hill according to four methods. After determining the extent to which the landscape theory of Practical Landscape Gardening was implemented at Oak Hill, the site is analyzed in terms of Beaux Arts landscape theory to illustrate its place in the larger context of landscape architecture of the period. Oak Hill is further assessed as a cultural landscape and via the National Register of Historic Places evaluation method, to determine if Oak Hill could receive separate listing from the existing Berry Schools National Register Historic District.