Money, Manure & Maintenance: Ingredients for Successful Gardens of Marian Coffin Pioneer Landscape Architect 1876-1957

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Summary: Very complete and informative
Review: I began reading this book as a reference for a class and have found it to be very interesting. The class is; "Women and their Art" at the University of Oregon. This book tied directly with my own personal interest of Landscape design and the struggle that Marian Crueger Coffin had to endure. Thank you for putting this all together.

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Summary: Very complete and informative
Review: Marian Coffin was trained as landscape architect at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Class of 1904. Since no office would hire her because she was a woman, she hung up her own shingle in New York City and designed landscapes for half a century. The most well known Coffin-designed gardens open to the public are Winterthur, the Henry Francis du Pont Museum and Gardens, Mt. Cuba, also in Wilmington, Delaware, and The King's Garden at Fort Ticonderoga, New York. There are photographs on just about every page in addition to endnotes, bibliography, list of clients, and a detailed index. I'm the author and would love to hear from readers interested in landscape design during the Country Place Era.

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Summary: Photographs and plans of historic gardens make this book!
Review: Marian Coffin was trained as landscape architect at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Class of 1904. Since no office would hire her because she was a woman, she hung up her own shingle in New York City and designed landscapes for half a century. The most well known Coffin-designed gardens open to the public are Winterthur, the Henry Francis du Pont Museum and Gardens, Mt. Cuba, also in Wilmington, Delaware, and The King's Garden at Fort Ticonderoga, New York. There are photographs on just about every page in addition to endnotes, bibliography, list of clients, and a detailed index. I'm the author and would love to hear from readers interested in landscape design during the Country Place Era.