Loutrel Briggs, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American landscape architect
Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1893
Date of Death: 19-May-1977
Profession: landscape architect
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Loutrel Briggs
- Loutrel Winslow Briggs (December 12, 1893 - May 1977) was an American landscape architect active in Charleston, South Carolina. Briggs was born in New York City, graduated from Cornell University in 1917 with a degree in "Rural Art" (landscape architecture), and chaired the department of landscape architecture at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art.
- In the 1920s he began a seasonal landscape architecture practice in Charleston catering to wealthy New Yorkers who wintered in the area.
- His first major commission was in 1929 for Mrs.
- Washington Roebling, widow of the engineer who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- In 1951, Briggs published a book, "Charleston Gardens," about the private gardens in Charleston, South Carolina.Briggs is now best known for more than one hundred gardens that he designed in or near Charleston's historic district.
- He was also landscape architect for Mepkin Abbey.
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