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James Leal Greenleaf

Landscape architect

Died when: 75 years 259 days (908 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

James Leal Greenleaf

James Leal Greenleaf (July 30, 1857 – April 15, 1933) was an American landscape architect and civil engineer.Early in his career, he was a well-known landscape architect who designed the gardens and grounds of many large estates in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York.

He was appointed to the United States Commission of Fine Arts in 1918, and served until 1927.He was the landscape architect for the Lincoln Memorial (finished in 1922), and a consulting landscape architect for the Arlington Memorial Bridge (designed in 1925 and finished in 1932).


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