![]() The Tuskegee Institute and portions of the campus, which contain many of Williston’s original landscape designs, were designated a National Historic Site. Washington was Tuskegee’s first president. Williston and George Washington Carver collaborated on the landscape design around Booker T. Between the years of 1910 to 1929, Williston taught horticulture at the Tuskegee Institute, while simultaneously overseeing the development of the campus as the superintendent of buildings and grounds. During his career, Williston was an educator and practiced landscape architecture - as a designer and campus planner for many historically black institutions. ![]() David Augustus Williston was the first professionally trained African American landscape architect in the United States.
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