The Resume

(April 26, 1822-August 28, 1903)
Born in Hartford, Connecticut
Journalist and landscape architect
Founder of the magazine 'The Nation' (1895)
Best known for designing Central Park in New York City
Also designed Prospect Park in New York City; the landscape around the Capitol Building in Washington, DC; the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York; Belle Island Park in Detroit; Washington Park in Chicago; and park systems in Boston, Milwaukee, Buffalo and Louisville

Why he might be annoying:

He had an unsuccessful career as a farmer before moving on to journalism.
He married his brother's widow (1859).
After going senile, he became a patient at a hospital whose grounds he had designed.

Why he might not be annoying:

During the Civil War, he served as director of the US Sanitary Commission, a precursor of the American Red Cross, which was responsible for treating the wounded.
He insisted on making Central Park open to all social classes, calling it 'a democratic development of highest significance.'
He founded the first full-time landscape architecture firm (1893).
Architect Daniel Burnham said, 'An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes; with lawns and banks and forest covered hills.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Architects
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 28]
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [M-Q]
• I Attended Phillips Academy [Andover, Massachusetts]
• I Died in 1903 (Ranked: 81)
• I Have Dementia/Alzheimer's
• I Have Insomnia
• I Named My Kid After Myself
• In Town for The World's Fair at the Columbian Exposition [1893-Chicago]
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• Newspaper Journalists/Editors/Publishers
• Profiles 28751-29000 (Ranked: 28832)
• Smithsonian’s 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time [2015] (Ranked: 6)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 66 Votes: 39.39% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 16 Votes: 37.50% Annoying