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At the age of eighteen, Henry Shaw (1800-1889) left his home, the industrial town of Sheffield, England, to import manufactured goods from St. Louis via the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Two decades of financial success in St. Louis allowed him to relinquish his business operations and take up more genteel pursuits. In 1840 he began nearly ten years of travel, which exposed him to museums and botanical gardens in Europe, Asia Minor, and Russia. He also visited Chatsworth, in Derbyshire, England, where he saw Joseph Paxton's arboretum and the duke of Devonshire's world-class botanical...

When Sidney J. Hare and S. Herbert Hare launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would become the most influential landscape architecture and planning practice in the Midwest. Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein document the extraordinary achievements of this little-known firm.