Synonyms:
Downing, Andrew_Jackson_Downing
Meaning: United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852)
Usage examples
Then the tram arrived--the slow stuffy tram that plies every twenty minutes between the unknown and the marketplace--and took them past the desecrated grounds of Downing, past Addenbrookes Hospital, girt like a Venetian palace with a mantling canal, past the Fitz William, towering upon immense substructions like any Roman temple, right up to the gates of one's own college, which looked like nothing else in the world.