BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Landscape architect, city planner. Helen Elise Bullard, was born in Schuylerville,
New York on June 28, 1896, the daughter of Dr. Thomas E. Bullard and Elizabeth
Huggins Bullard. She attended the Schuylerville Public School. She graduated from
Cornell University with a Bachelor in Science Degree in Landscape Architecture (then
Landscape Art) from the College of Agriculture. She was employed by the Wagner Park
Nursery Company at Sidney, Ohio (not verified) where she lectured and advised on
Small Home Grounds. From 1921 to 1925 she worked in the office of Warren H. Manning,
Boston, Massachusetts as the plantsman and planting designer and supervisor of
projects. She worked on both private estates and community pageants. By 1929 she was
employed in the office of Annette Hoyt Flanders and supervised a number of estate
projects, primarily on Long Island. In 1930 she was employed by the New York State
government. She began in the Civil service, performing projects for the Long Island
State Park Commission, Rye Beach Park, and the Southern State Parkway. In 1937 she
was assigned as a Landscape Architect for the New York World's Fair, 1939. She was
named Junior Landscape Architect for the New York State Department of Public Works
in 1938 and remained there until she retired in 1964. During her career she lectured
on gardening, garden design, city planning, and housing issues. She died in
Schuylerville, New York on November 4, 1987.
