Mary D. Gordon

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
1926 - 2021
An elderly woman with white hair smiling, wearing a colorful large brimmed sun hat, a white shirt, and a dark blue jacket outdoors in a green, wooded area.

“My work is different than most, I work with organic spaces. If you want to capture some of the real qualities of nature you can’t do it with a compass, t-square and triangle. The waves on the shore are not like that… or the hills and valleys or the mountains. They can’t be!”

Mary Gordon, age 93

Serene Zen Garden

Palo Alto, CA

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Backyard Oasis

Stanford, CA

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Personal Flower Garden

Stanford, CA

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Designed and developed by Elisa Alfonso, granddaughter of Mary Gordon

Written content by Ruth Gordon, daughter of Mary Gordon

Updated in October 2025

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