About
Joan E. Furlong . ASLA
Furlong is an associate with the firm, has been in professional practice for over 25 years, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is the project manager for the restoration and rehabilitation of the Washington’s Headquarters Museum Garden at the Morristown National Historical Park in Morristown, NJ, and has worked on numerous residential and downtown redevelopment projects while at Davies Associates.
Furlong’s prior experience includes designing several projects of historic significance in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. While working at Brown Richardson & Rowe, in Boston, Furlong was the project designer for Kerouac Park, in Lowell, and provided design support for Shipyard Park, Charlestown Navy Yard, in Boston. She researched and documented historic sites near the Charlestown Navy Yard and in the North End of Boston during the planning stages for the federal highway project commonly known as the “Big Dig.” Furlong created a large planning map that identified
the locations of well-known and lesser-known historic sites around the “Big Dig” for the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
Her work in New Jersey includes the planting design for the historic Weehawken Public Library in Weehawken, and the Van Vleck House and Garden in Montclair, where she worked over a four-year period with the Van Vleck family and the Montclair Foundation to inventory and document the landscape plants, including rhododendron cultivars propagated by Howard Van Vleck. She alsodeveloped planting designs for the Rock and Native Plant Gardens at the New York Botanical Garden, where she provided conceptual design studies and presentation drawings for a grant proposal, and worked on the rehabilitation and sensitive redesign of numerous private old gardens in Essex and Bergen Counties. Furlong speaks publicly on the work of her grandfather, noted landscape architect Ethelbert E. Furlong.
Furlong is licensed to practice landscape architecture in New York and New Jersey.