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Coffin, Marian Cruger (1876 - 1957)
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
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Born: 1876, Died: 1957 Chiefly known for her estate design in Delaware and New York, Marian C. Coffin was born in New York City to Alice Church Coffin and Julian Ross Coffin. Because her father abandoned the family, Marian C. Coffin realized early on that she would have to engage in some form of paying work in order to support herself and her mother. After choosing landscape, she enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901 and finished the program in landscape architecture in 1904. Although well-trained, Coffin still found it difficult to succeed in a world dominated by offices reluctant to hire a woman; therefore, she opened her own practice, relying on small residential projects for income. Change came in 1912 when one of her designs was published in Country Life in America. With this publication her work came to the attention of a greater audience, and she was soon in Delaware designing gardens for Henry Francis duPont and for H. Rodney Sharp ("Gilbralter" in Wilmington, DE).Coffin was an early member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (1906) and became a Fellow in 1918.
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