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Marian Cruger Coffin

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279: 275:(MIT), which had begun admitting women in 1870, only nine years after its establishment. Coffin applied there but was initially refused entry, as she was not qualified to meet the admission requirements due to her lack of a formal education. However, several of the key faculty members were sympathetic and encouraged her to persevere. She undertook intensive tutoring in mathematics and enrolled at MIT in 1901 as a special student, one of four women enrolled on the architecture course and one of two studying landscape architecture. The four women on the course were the only female members of a 500-strong student body. 432:. Coffin argued that a "moderately well-to-do" homeowner could create and maintain a substantial and elaborate garden for a modest expenditure, comparable to that of a mid-range car. She promoted the idea that even the most featureless lot could be beautified through good design: "We certainly cannot create a magnificent view, but we can plan and plant beautiful screens and backgrounds that will be interesting at all seasons of the year. We may not easily be able to construct a picturesque diversity at ground level, but we can plant so as to have much height and variety in our flower and shrub groups." 205: 552:, although she continued to maintain her office in New York and commuted there daily. Coffin often entertained guests in New Haven (and recruited several Connecticut notables as new clients), holding teas, cocktail parties, musical events and buffet suppers. The garden, which she had laid out herself, became the site of garden parties in the summer months. She preferred the company of young architects, artists, musicians and writers, though she could be curt towards those she took a dislike to; on one occasion, she snubbed 454: 565: 462: 577:. Her willingness to innovate made her a particularly sought-after designer as clients came to value a more adventurous approach to landscape architecture. She put into practice the idea put forward in 1918 by Elsa Rehmann that a garden should be a "manifestation of distinctive individuality, an expression of personality." By the 1920s, Rehmann's views had become fashionable and gardens became seen as a vehicle for expressing the private self. 346: 33: 440:. She also took on James Scheiner, an architect, as an associate. He became a key part of Coffin's practice, working on large-scale tasks such as overseeing work on the ground. This in turn opened up new opportunities for her to take on new, larger commissions. Coffin insisted on being paid the same fees as a male architect and to be treated equally in contracts; this was a novelty in itself, at a time when women were usually 494:
Landscape Architects in 1918, and by the 1920s she was one of the most sought-after East Coast landscape architects. Her work was widely featured in popular magazines and professional journals, at Coffin's own instigation as part of an overt marketing strategy. She sought to reach the wealthy and powerful women who made up an important part of the readership of publications such as the Garden Club of America's
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College to the north and the Delaware Women's College to the south) into one cohesive design. This was a challenge since the linear mall design of each was out of alignment with the other. Coffin solved this problem by linking them via a circle instead of curving the straight paths (the university's library faces this circle today) which rendered the misalignment unnoticeable to the pedestrian.
156:. She was one of the first American women to work as a professional landscape architect. Her increasing fame led to larger commissions from wealthy and powerful East Coast families. By the 1920s she was one of the most sought-after landscape architects in the eastern United States. Coffin's clientele included some of the wealthiest and most famous families in the country, including the 337:
our mettle to prove that we, too, were serious students and competitors. This association with many types of boys and men I found very helpful as we had a fine spirit of camaraderies in the drafting room and many a helping hand was given me at a critical moment, though one had to steel oneself to hear many a severe criticism, which was perhaps even more valuable."
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Coffin's designs were distinguished by her use of "dramatic contrasts in color, inclusion of wildflowers and woodland plantings, and site unity through effective transition spaces." She was especially noted for her ability to effectively incorporate functional areas such as tennis courts and putting
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style as a series of "rooms" to parallel the layout of the mansion. It has a strongly geometric layout profusely planted in a style reminiscent of an informal English garden. Numerous architectural and decorative elements such as fountains, statues, urns and hand-forged iron gates provide additional
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One expected the world to welcome newly fledged landscape artists, but alas, few people seemed to know what it was all about ... while the idea of taking a woman into an office was unheard of. 'My dear young lady, what will you do about supervising the work on the ground? .' became such a constant
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Coffin's college years were nonetheless a "long grind", as she described it, with a seemingly unrelenting "long routine of hard work" relieved only by her summer abroad. She and the other three women in the program maintained a friendly competition with the male students which, she said, "put us on
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Although the Coffins had little money, their life with Alice's upper-class relatives gave Marian an almost aristocratic upbringing that introduced her to high society on the East Coast and enabled her to make social connections that were to be extremely valuable in later life. However, she received
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I secretly cherished the idea of being a great artist ... but that dream seemed in no way possible of realization ... my desire to create beauty was strong, I did not seem to possess talent for music, writing, painting or sculpture, at the time, the only outlet a woman had to express any artistic
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in Geneva, New York in 1946. On February 2, 1957, she died at her home in New Haven. Perhaps fulfilling Martha Brookes Hutcheson's prediction that having a career would be "matrimonial suicide" for a woman of her class, Coffin never married and had no children. Her papers, architectural plans and
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campus in 1919 at the recommendation of Sharp, who chaired the college's Buildings and Grounds Committee. From 1918 to 1952, Coffin was appointed the University of Delaware's landscape architect, a position which required Coffin to unite the university's two separate campuses (the former Delaware
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Coffin's attempts to find business in the Midwest were thwarted by the well-established presence there of several notable landscape architects in Chicago but she was not short of commissions despite this failure. Her success was recognized by her being elected a Fellow of the American Society of
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Many of Coffin's theories and principles can be seen in practice in her most famous creation, Harry and Ruth du Pont's gardens at their Winterthur estate. Her work on the gardens began in 1929 and became the biggest commission of her career. It was very fortuitously timed for her, as the
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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
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wiped out the fortunes of many of her clients and brought to an end the era of commissioning elaborate gardens for large country estates. Coffin had somewhat better luck with her investments and the enormous fortune of the du Ponts insulated the family from the worst of the
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As her fame grew, Coffin gained the opportunity to put her design principles into practice on a larger scale. Her practice had grown large enough for her to need an assistant by 1911, and by 1918 she had moved her office to larger premises at 830
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almost no formal education, a deficiency that caused significant problems for her in her college years. She was instead tutored at home, where she also enjoyed the benefits of exposure to fine art and music and became an accomplished horse rider.
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The Depression meant that large commissions became few and far between. For the rest of her career, Coffin had to make do with smaller and less well-compensated commissions for suburban gardens. She took up writing and produced two books,
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Coffin took the full range of architectural courses including studying engineering, physics, maths, mechanical drafting and freehand drawing in addition to architectural and landscape design. She also studied botany and horticulture under
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As a relatively impoverished member of the upper class, Coffin had no independent income and faced a choice between finding a rich husband or taking up a professional career. She chose the latter, despite the fact that (as noted by
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in 1930, she continued working almost until her death in 1957 at the age of 80. During her career she worked on over 130 commissions, including dozens of major estate gardens. Among her most notable creations were the gardens of
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among others. Jekyll, an influential British horticulturist and garden designer, had a major influence on Coffin's subsequent work. On returning to America, Coffin found that the strongly male-dominated architectural firms were
485:. A relative of the du Ponts, Hugh Rodney Sharp, gave her what was to become one of her best-known commissions in 1916, the creation of the gardens of the Gibraltar estate in Wilmington, Delaware. She designed it in an 302:, the director of the landscape design program there, who was an advocate of the classical values of balance, order, proportion and harmony taught by the French Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Lowell was best known for his book 224:
of upper New York state, an inspiration; she later wrote, "even as a small girl, I loved the country, not so much gardens and growing things, for I had no experience with these ... but simply the great outdoor world."
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than men. She also liked to employ women to work with her on commissions, giving them the chance to undertake apprenticeships that male prejudice had denied her when she had first started on her career.
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in 1909, probably due to a recommendation from Henry du Pont. The Bullitt commission led to two similar commissions nearby in 1911. In 1910–11, she also designed gardens for Alfred Boardman in
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In 1926, Coffin fell ill with a serious hip infection that forced her to curtail much of her physical activity and required a lengthy stay in hospital. She moved to a newly acquired house in
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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 Terrace
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An architect friend suggested that she might like to try "landscape gardening" (the term used at the time for landscape architecture) a field in which
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She graduated in 1904 and travelled to Europe with her mother, visiting well-known gardens and staying with family and friends. Along the way she met
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and travelled extensively in Europe and South America in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from
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Among Coffin's significant commissions during this period were the design of a garden for William Marshall Bullitt's Oxmoor estate in
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had become a female pioneer during the 1890s. Coffin may also have been influenced by her uncle Benjamin Church, who had worked under
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was a major influence on Coffin's own designs and elements of his work can be recognised in gardens that she executed, such as the
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Coffin's first jobs were to design small flower gardens such as the suburban garden she designed for Edward Sprague in 1906 in
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Money, Manure & Maintenance, Ingredients for Successful Gardens of Marian Coffin, pioneer landscape architect, 1876–1957
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on Long Island, the Marjorie Merriweather Post estate known as Hillwood in nearby Brookville (which is now part of the
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and discouraging query that the only thing seemed to be for me to hang out my own shingle and see what I
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After graduating Coffin was unable to find work with established architectural firms, due to widespread
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ability ... My artistic yearnings lay fallow until I realized it was necessary to earn my living.
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A World of Her Own Making: Katharine Smith Reynolds Johnston And the Landscape of Reynolda
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Most of her commissions were carried out during the 12 years or so between the end of the
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The National Arts Club in New York City, where Coffin lived with her mother from 1905–27
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photographs of her gardens are preserved at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.
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The gardens of Gibraltar (Wilmington, Delaware), designed by Coffin between 1916–23
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Although the number of her commissions was greatly reduced after the onset of the
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Landscapes in History: Design and Planning in the Eastern and Western Traditions
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showing a mechanical drafting studio at MIT, where Coffin studied from 1901–4
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at the time. A few years later, she wrote about the Sprague garden in
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Libby, Valencia (2011). Louise A., Mozingo; Jewell, Linda L. (eds.).
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Other major projects included gardens for the Bayberryland estate in
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who became famous for designing numerous gardens for members of the
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Against all Odds: MIT's Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture
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working in a male-dominated field. She set up her own practice in
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A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era
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Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice
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People associated with Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
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Hail, M.W. The Art of Landscaping. University of Delaware
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led to her being awarded the Gold Medal of Honor by the
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in 1905, starting out by designing suburban gardens on
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Coffin was born into a wealthy upper-class family in
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Ben-Joseph, E., Ben-Joseph, H.D., & Dodge, A.C.
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Marian Cruger Coffin
Scarborough, New York
New Haven, Connecticut
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Landscape architect
Gibraltar
Winterthur
Caumsett gardens
landscape architect
East Coast
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
prejudice against a woman
New York City
Long Island
Fricks
Vanderbilts
du Ponts
Great Depression
Gibraltar
Wilmington, Delaware
University of Delaware
Caumsett State Historic Park
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library

Scarborough, New York
Geneva, New York
Finger Lakes
Martha Brookes Hutcheson
Beatrix Jones Farrand
Frederick Law Olmsted

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