Marian Cruger Coffin
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Marian Cruger Coffin was an American landscape architect who designed gardens for members of the East Coast elite. As a child, she received almost no formal education but was home-tutored while living with her maternal relatives in upstate New York.
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Coffin with her mother, Alice
Stereographic card showing a mechanical drafting studio at MIT, where Coffin studied from 1901-4
The National Arts Club in New York City, where Coffin lived with her mother from 1905-27
The gardens of Gibraltar (Wilmington, Delaware), designed by Coffin between 1916-23
King's Gardens next to Fort Ticonderoga, 1921
Coffin in 1925
The Reflecting Pool at Winterthur, designed by Coffin for the du Ponts as their family swimming pool with a grand staircase leading down from the East TerraceArchitects from United States 6
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Marian Cruger Coffin was an American landscape architect who designed gardens for members of the East Coast elite. As a child, she received almost no formal education but was home-tutored while living with her maternal relatives in upstate New York. Coffin was determined to embark on a career despite the social problems that it would cause for a woman of her class and enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied between 1901-4 as one of only four women in architecture and landscape design.
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