This fall marks the 150th birthday of Marian Coffin, the pioneering woman of landscape architecture who designed the gardens of Winterthur, Gibraltar, Winterthur, and Mt. Cuba, the University of Delaware Green, and many others in the Delaware Valley and beyond. This also marks the 10-year anniversary of the launch of the university’s Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program.
To celebrate these milestones, Winterthur, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program, and Preservation Delaware, the non-profit that oversees the Coffin Garden at Gibraltar, have developed a two-day symposium to bring awareness to her remarkable achievements and her influence on landscapes and relevance of the field of landscape architecture and historic garden and landscape preservation today.