George Edward Kessler (July 16, 1862 – March 20, 1923) was an American pioneer city planner and landscape architect. Over the course of his forty-one year career, George E. Kessler completed over 200 projects and prepared plans for 26 communities, 26 park and boulevard systems, 49 parks, 46 estates and residences, and 26 schools. [ 1 ]

During his 40-year career, George E. Kessler prepared plans for 26 communities, 26 park and boulevard systems, 49 parks, 46 estates & residents, and 26 schools. His projects can be found in 23 states, Mexico, and China and in 100 cities.

Landscape architect and urban planner George Edward Kessler (1862-1923) of St. Louis, Missouri, created the first comprehensive plan for parks and boulevards in Indianapolis in 1909 and assisted in its implementation.

George Kessler’s legacy as a landscape architect and city planner remains visible both nationally and internationally. During his lifetime, he planned 230 projects, including Mexico and China as well as in 23 states and 100 cities throughout the United States.

When Kessler died in 1923, he was nationally recognized as a landscape architect and city planner. His body of worked included over 230 projects in 23 states and 100 cities. His pro folio included plans for cemeteries, communities, park and boulevard systems, estates and residents, fairgrounds, parks, and schools.

Facing endemic anti-German sentiment during World War I, Kessler served his adoptive country by designing wooden training facilities known as cantonments with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His efforts earned him the belated respect of his professional colleagues.

George Kessler used his vision and skill to transform early Kansas City from an eyesore to a model for the City Beautiful Movement. Before Kessler arrived here in the 1880s, the city's west bluffs were a slum, Hyde Park was a shanty town, and …

Landscape architect George E. Kessler was the creator of Kansas City's Parks and Boulevard System, of which Roanoke Park is one of the early parts. The field of landscape architecture was in many ways created by Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York's Central Park and many other parks and estates.

1995年2月1日 · George E. Kessler, pioneer city planner and landscape architect, was born in Frankenhausen, Germany, in 1862 and in 1865 was taken to Dallas, Texas, by his widowed mother, who taught French and art to support them.

George Kessler shaped the physical face of Kansas City as landscape architect and Park Board secretary. He was sculptor of our soil and plastic surgeon of our parkways. He made beauty out of this beast.