| 词条 | Jacob Weidenmann |
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Jacob Weidenmann (1829 – February 6, 1893) was an American landscape architect. BiographyWeidenmann was born in Winterthur, Switzerland in 1829. He was educated at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, where he studied art, architecture, and engineering. After graduating, he worked in Munich, Paris, London, New York City, Panama, and Peru, before settling in the United States in 1856. In 1861 he was named first superintendent of parks in Hartford, Connecticut, where he designed Bushnell Park and Cedar Hill Cemetery. In 1874 he became a collaborator with Frederick Law Olmsted on projects including Mount Royal Park in Montreal, and the Washington, D.C., Capitol grounds. Weidenmann's Hartford designs include grounds for the American School for the Deaf, Bushnell Park, the Butler-McCook Homestead gardens, Cedar Hill Cemetery, and the Institute of Living. His Midwest designs include the //#1'>1], Iowa State Fairgrounds, and Chicago's Mount Hope Cemetery. His national work included landscape designs for the United States Capitol, U.S. Quartermaster Depot, Schuylkill Arsenal, and Hot Springs Reservation. He died on February 6, 1893. Selected works
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