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Weidenmann, Jacob

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Weidenmann, Jacob (1829-1893)

Swiss-born US landscape architect. An engineer and architect in Panama and South America, he emigrated to the USA in 1861 to be superintendent of parks in Hartford, Connecticut, where he designed the Cedar Hill Cemetery. In 1870 he joined Frederick Olmsted in New York, designing the Schuykill Reservoir in Philadelphia among other projects. Publishing Modern Cemeteries in 1888, he advocated park-like grounds minimizing monuments. Weidenmann was born in Winterthur, Switzerland.



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