Loutrel Briggs, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Loutrel Briggs

American landscape architect

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1893

Date of Death: 19-May-1977

Profession: landscape architect

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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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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