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==College campuses== Farrand's campus designs were based on three concepts: plants that bloomed throughout the academic year, emphasizing architecture as well as hiding flaws, and using upright and climbing plants so that the small spaces between buildings would not seem reduced in scale.<ref name=dlandstudio>{{cite web|title=The Campus Landscapes of Beatrix Farrand|url=http://www.dlandstudio.com/projects_farrand.html|website=dlandstudio|access-date=27 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512045157/http://www.dlandstudio.com/projects_farrand.html|archive-date=12 May 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her designs are noted for their practicality, simplicity and ease of maintenance.<ref name=Parke/>{{rp|13}} She was the first consulting landscape architect for [[Princeton University]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey]] (1912β43).<ref name=Bernstein>{{cite news|last1=Bernstein|first1=Mark F.|title=Growing the campus How Princeton preserves its 'lazy beauty'|url=https://www.princeton.edu/paw/archive_new/PAW07-08/14-0611/features_landscape.html|access-date=27 September 2015|work=Princeton Authors|date=June 11, 2008}}</ref><ref name=President>{{cite web|title=Shaping Princeton's Landscape|url=http://www.princeton.edu/president/tilghman/pages/20120425/|website=Presidentβs Pages in Princeton Alumni Weekly|access-date=April 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929015152/http://www.princeton.edu/president/tilghman/pages/20120425/|archive-date=September 29, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=LoBiondo>{{cite web|last1=LoBiondo|first1=Maria|title=Beatrix Farrand: Landscape Architect|url=http://www.princeton.edu/~gradcol/perm/farrand.htm|website=Princeton: With One Accord|date=1998|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref> As new buildings are constructed at Princeton now, architects are often referred to Farrand's papers at U.C. Berkeley. She was the consulting landscape architect at [[Yale University]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], for twenty-three years (1923β45), with projects including the [[Marsh Botanical Garden]].<ref name=Schiff>{{cite news|last1=Schiff|first1=Judith Ann|title=Old Yale Secret Gardens|url=http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_05/old_yale.html|access-date=27 September 2015|work=Yale Alumni Magazine|date=2001}}</ref> She later went on to improve a dozen other campuses including the [[University of Chicago]] (1929β43),<ref name=UChicago>{{cite web|title=University of Chicago|url=https://tclf.org/landscapes/university-chicago|website=The Cultural Landscape Foundation|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref> along with Southern California's [[Occidental College]] and the [[California Institute of Technology]].<ref name=Scheid>{{cite journal|last1=Scheid|first1=Ann|title=Beatrix Farrand in Southern California, 1927β1941|journal=Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society|date=2011|volume=14|issue=2|pages=1β13|url=http://www.cglhs.org/files/eden_vol14_no2.pdf|access-date=27 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929001628/http://www.cglhs.org/files/eden_vol14_no2.pdf|archive-date=2015-09-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> Beatrix Farrand completed design work for the [[Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women]] (1931β32).<ref name=Klein>{{cite book|last1=Klein|first1=William M.|title=Gardens of Philadelphia & the Delaware Valley|date=1995|publisher=Temple Univ. Press|location=Philadelphia|isbn=9781566393133|page=123|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grnphiaXhVUC&pg=PA123|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref> Later, she was also the landscape consultant to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University (1946β50).<ref name=Brown/>{{rp|204β09, 213.}}
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