George Edward Kessler

Photos and biographical article about George Kessler (1862-1923), a nationally prominent landscape architect and designer of Kansas City's park and boulevard system. Description of his life and career, a native of Germany emigrating to America as a child and starting his career in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1882, before opening an office in Kansas City and designing the park and boulevard system by 1893, "completed with the help of businessman August R. Meyer and newspaperman William Rockhill Nelson." Description of his later career, arriving in Saint Louis in 1902 for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and Forest Park restoration, although "remain[ing] an advisor to the Kansas City Park Board until his death." Called "the leading landscape architect and city planner of the early twentieth century," designing plans for cities around the world, especially in the United States.