Joe O. Lambert, Mobile Co., AL., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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Joe O. Lambert.  Formerly the service of the landscape architect was 

supposed to be limited to owners of wealthy estates or municipal 

corporations.  In recent years a great change has been made in that 

respect.  Most home owners of moderate means, and with sonic appreciation 

of beauty and good taste, avail themselves in some measure of the ideals 

and tactful work of the landscape architect.  This change of attitude has 

done more than anything else to transform time exterior monotony of city 

homes and give the qualities in beauty and harmony that can never be 

obtained by building architecture alone.



A landscape architect in Louisiana, a man of broad ideals in the service 

in his profession and with a public spirited interest in the education of 

the public to these ideals as well as to his individual success, is 

Joe 0. Lambert of Shreveport.



Mr. Lambert is a native of Mobile County, Alabama, grew up on a farm, 

and front early youth has specialized in horticulture and agriculture.  

He was educate(l in the agricultural and mechanical college of Mississippi 

and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, doing special academic work 

at these institutions.  Taking up landscape architecture and planning as a 

profession, he has made of it a splendid success, having the solid 

foundation of artistic ideas as well as the practical technique.



Mr. Lambert located permanently in Shreveport in 1920.  His main plant and 

display grounds are at the intersection of Claiborne Avenue and Cedar Grove 

Road, in the south part of the city.  He brings to Shreveport about fifteen 

car loads of trees and shrubs a year, and his business has had a remarkable 

growth and expansion.  Land has been secured and arrangements made for 

establishing a nursery here to be run in connection with the landscape business.  

His clients include a large number of prominent and wealthy home owners in 

Shreveport, and he has affected some wonderful transformations in grounds, 

gardens and estates.  Some of the better known of such home owners who have 

used the Lambert Landscape Service are: E. A. Frost, F. T. Whited, Judge 

J. A. Thigpen, Henry C. Walker, A. J. Peavy, S. G. Sample, A. C. Steere, 

R. T. Moore, W. T. Crawford, Mrs. R. T. Layne and E. G. Palmer.  He has done 

landscape work for the A. C. Steere interests in South Highlands and Broadmoor, 

and for the Forest Park Cemetery, and also for a number of private estates 

in Monroe.  He has written a number if articles, and in private and public 

discussions has done much to educate the public to proper ideas of planting 

effects and in that way has rendered a genuine service to his city and state.



Mr. Lambert is a member of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce and Rotary 

Club, and is a man of solid financial and property interests.  He married 

Miss Olivia Clara Quattlebaum, of Mobile, Alabama, and their four children 

are:  Edwin R.,  Joe 0., Jr.,  Henry M. and  Gordon H.



NOTE:  A signed photograph/painting accompanies this narrative in the referenced 

source.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 113, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.