Charles Gillette

His father served as a private in the 30th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the Civil War.

In 1909–1911, Gillette served as an apprentice in the Boston office of Warren H. Manning, a leading early-20th century landscape architect.

During the 1950s, Gillette redesigned the gardens of Virginia's Executive Mansion at the request of Governor Thomas B. Stanley.

In 1958, he designed the grounds for the Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters located at Richmond.

[2] Author Tom Wolfe references Gillette as the commissioned landscaper of Dupont University in I Am Charlotte Simmons.

"York Hall," Captain George Preston Blow House, Route 1005 and Main Street, Yorktown, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1929. Griffin & Wynkoop, architects, additions to 18th century brick house, the home of Thomas Nelson Jr., 1738–1739, after purchase by Blow in 1914. Landscape: Charles Freeman Gillette, from 1914. Today the house, without additions by Captain Blow, is a National Park Service site