Marian Cruger Coffin
Marian Cruger Coffin(1876 – 1957) is recognized as one of the first and most accomplished female landscape architects in the United States. Coffin achieved widespread recognition for her designs of country estates including Henry Francis du Pont’s Winterthur in Wilmington, Deleware.
A 1904 graduate of MIT, Marian Cruger Coffin was one of only two female students then studying in the landscape architecture program. She opened an office in New York City and began a successful career that flourished in the era following World War I when an emerging upper class bought acreage in rural areas and eagerly planned their sprawling country estates.
Among her clients, Stephen H.P. Pell and his wife Sarah commissioned a redesign of the garden at The Pavilion, their summer home at Fort Ticonderoga. This colonial revival garden is recreated in today’s King’s Garden, open to the public since 2001.
