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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT; URBAN PLANNER
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Born: 9/3/1877, Died: 2/15/1956 Charles Downing Lay was the son of Oliver Ingraham and Hester Marian Watt Lay. He attended the Columbis University School of Architecture from 1896 to 1900 and then earned his S.B. in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University's School of Landscape Architecture in 1902. His practice, which encompassed landscape architecture, park and city design, endured in New york City from 1902 through 1948. From 1913 to 1914 Lay held the position of Landscape Architect for New York City's Parks Department. In New York City park designs associated with Lay are Madison Square Park, John Jay Park, and Bryant Park, among others, but his work extended well beyond New York City, to the cities of upper New York State, as well as to Washington, DC, and Stratford, CT During World War I he designed towns for the U. S. Housing Corporation in Erie and Butler, PA.Along with Henry V. Hubbard and Robert Wheelwright, he established the professional journal Landscape Architecture. After 1941 he went into semi-retirement but still continued his efforts in conservation by helping to establish the Housatonic Valley Planning Association in 1948, thus ensuring the conservation of a river close to his home in Stratford, CT.
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