Burden, Steele, 1900-1995,
Biographical notes:
Steele Burden worked for the city of Baton Rouge and LSU initially as a gardener and later as a landscape architect. He played a pivotal role in the founding and development of the LSU Rural Life History Museum at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., by donating the museum's site, Windrush Plantation, his family's home.
From the description of Steele Burden oral history interview, 1994. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 262478452
Steele Burden worked for the city of Baton Rouge and LSU initially as a gardner and later as a landscape architect. He played a pivotal role in the founding and development of the Rural Life Museum at Louisiana State University by donating the museum's site, Windrush Plantation, his family's home.
From the description of Steele Burden oral history interview, 1993. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70888785
Steele Burden worked for the city of Baton Rouge and LSU initially as a gardener and later as a landscape architect. He played a pivotal role in the founding and development of the LSU Rural Life History Museum at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., by donating the museum's site, Windrush Plantation, his family's home. Burden was interviewed here because of his association with William Weeks Hall and his familiarity with the gardens of the Shadows-on-the-Teche in the late 1930s and 40s.
From the description of Steele Burden oral history interview, 1978. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 238692534
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Subjects:
- Agricultural museum
- Universities and colleges
- Gardens
- Golf courses
- Landscape architecture
- Parks
- Philanthropists
- Plantations
Occupations:
- Gardeners
- Landscape architects
Places:
- Louisiana (as recorded)
- Louisiana--Baton Rouge (as recorded)
- Louisiana (as recorded)
- Magnolia Mound Plantation (Baton Rouge, La.) (as recorded)
- City Park (Baton Rouge, La.) (as recorded)
- Baton Rouge (La.) (as recorded)
- Louisiana--Baton Rouge (as recorded)
- Avery Island (La.) (as recorded)
- Windrush (Baton Rouge, La.) (as recorded)
- Shadows on the Teche Plantation (La.) (as recorded)
