{{Short description|American landscape architect}} {{Infobox person | name = Bremer Whidden Pond | image = Bremer Pond 1907.jpg | alt = | caption = Bremer Pond 1907 | birth_date = June 23, 1884 | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts | death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|09|2|1884|06|23}} | death_place = Hanover, New Hampshire | education = {{Plainlist| * Dartmouth College, <small>B.A.</small> (1906) * Harvard University, <small>M.L.A.</small> (1906) }} | occupation = Landscape architect | years_active = 1906–1936 | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Bremer Whidden Pond''' (June 23, 1884 – September 2, 1959) was an American landscape architect and professor at Harvard University. He was deeply involved with two early graduate programs in landscape architecture for women: the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture.<ref name=smith/><ref name=pond/>
==Early life== Bremer Whidden Pond was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 23, 1884, and got his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1906.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pond, Bremer Whidden, 1884-1959 |url=https://archives-manuscripts.dartmouth.edu/agents/people/1097 |access-date=February 11, 2023 |website=Dartmouth Library Archives & Manuscripts |publisher=Trustees of Dartmouth College}}</ref> He received his master's degree in landscape architecture from Harvard that same year. He went on to serve as secretary to the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
==Career== Bremer joined Harvard's School of Landscape Architecture in 1914 and remained at Harvard until his retirement in 1950. He eventually became the Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture and the chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture in what became the Harvard Graduate School of Design.<ref name=pond/> In 1915, Harvard architecture instructor Henry Atherton Frost inaugurated an informal program of tutoring women in architecture since they could not be admitted to Harvard's male-only graduate program.<ref name=cz/> Within a year, Frost had four women students and had brought Pond on board.<ref name=alla/> Word about the informal program spread, and by the 1916–17 academic year, the college was advertising the experimental program and its curriculum as the Cambridge School of Architectural and Landscape Design (later to be renamed the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture).<ref name=alla/> Among the women to complete the school's three-year program were landscape architects Rose Greely and Alice Recknagel Ireys.<ref name=alla/>
Pond also served for a time as director of the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, another institution formed to give women access to higher education in landscape architecture.<ref name=pond/>
In 1915, Pond opened his own office in Boston, and a few years later he went into partnership with Frost.<ref name=pond/><ref name=howe/>
Pond was secretary of the American Society of Landscape Architects from 1922 to 1936. He also served as secretary of the Cambridge Historical Society, was a director of the Massachusetts Forest and Park Association, and helped to organize the Hubbard Educational Trust.<ref name=pond/> He was a coeditor of ''The Transactions of the American Society of Landscape Architects, 1909-1921'', and he edited Eleanor von Erdberg's 1936 book ''Chinese Influence on European Garden Structures''.
Pond died on September 2, 1959, in Hanover, New Hampshire.<ref name=howe/>
== External links ==
* [https://scholars.unh.edu/bremer_pond/ Bremer W. Pond Collection] at the University of New Hampshire
==Publications== *''Outline History of Landscape Architecture (fine Arts 1f.)''. School of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, 1933.
==References== <references>
<ref name=howe>Howe, Lois Lilly. [http://www.cambridgehistory.org/content/bremmer-whidden-pond "Bremer Whidden Pond"]. ''The Cambridge Historical Society Newsletter'', vol. 38, Oct. 27, 1959.</ref>
<ref name=pond>[https://tclf.org/pioneer/bremer-pond "Bremer Whidden Pond"]. The Cultural Landscape Foundation website.</ref>
<ref name=cz>Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. ''Long Island Landscapes and the Women who Designed Them''. WW Norton & Company, 2009.</ref>
<ref name=alla>Allaback, Sarah. ''The First American Women Architects''. University of Illinois Press, 2008</ref>
<ref name=smith>[http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/smitharchives/manosca78.html "Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Records, 1919-1986"]. Five Colleges Archives & Manuscript Collection.</ref>
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