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15 1 // INTRODUCTION Fig. 1 Photograph detail of primary source material (1905 Plan of Plantings). Park Service and landscape preservation professionals. These include: • A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports: Contents, Process, and Techniques (U.S. Department of the Interior, Robert R. Page, Cathy A. Gilbert, Susan A. Dolan 1998) • National Register Bulletin 18: How to Evaluate and Nominate Designed Historic Landscapes (U.S. Department of the Interior, Timothy Keller, Genevieve Keller, 1987) • Preservation Brief #36, Protecting Cultural Landscapes: Planning, Treatment and Management of Historic Landscapes (U.S. Department of the Interior, Charles A. Birnbaum, 1994) • The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes (U.S. Department of the Interior, Charles A. Birnbaum and Christine Capella- Peters, editors, 1996) Research and analysis for this report has been undertaken in a thorough manner consistent with the standards. Every effort has been made to thoroughly investigate primary and scholarly sources whenever possible. In most cases, the majority of drawings and other original historic materials were inspected on site and in person. These include correspondence, diaries, drawings and photographs from the following primary archival sources: • The Darwin D. Martin / Frank Lloyd Wright Collections and the Darwin D. Martin Photograph Collection, held at the State University of New York at Buffalo, University Archives, Buffalo (original drawings, diaries, correspondence, photographs). • The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, held at Columbia University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, New York (original drawings, correspondence, photographs). • Parkside/00714 job archive, Olmsted Archives Collections, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline (drawings, correspondence). • Collection PH1983, The Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal (photographs). • Eric Milton Nicholls Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra (drawings, photographs). • Individual historical writings and published works from Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Burley Griffin, Darwin D. Martin, and others associated firsthand with the garden and landscape. • Individual collections provided by MHRC (William Thorpe Collection, Victor Shanchuk Collection). Secondary sources included: Buffalo and Erie County Library local history collections, Erie