Background
Jacob Weidenmann was born at Winterthur, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, the son of Jacob and Elise (Gubbler) Weidenmann.
( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
https://www.amazon.com/Beautifying-Country-Homes-Gardening-Illustrated/dp/1376221969?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1376221969
Jacob Weidenmann was born at Winterthur, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, the son of Jacob and Elise (Gubbler) Weidenmann.
After a brief apprenticeship in an architect's office at Geneva, he went to the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich, for his architectural training.
After visiting Paris, London, and New York, he found employment as an assistant engineer at Panama, but soon proceeded to Callao, and thence to Lima, Peru, where he worked for about a year as engineer and architect. Having become interested in landscape architecture, about 1861 he returned to America, where the profession was still very young. As superintendent of parks in Hartford, Connecticut (1861 - 68), he designed Bushnell Park, working closely with the Rev. Horace Bushnell. He was one of the promoters as well as the designer of the Cedar Hill Cemetery. In 1870, soon after he had moved his home and his office to New York City, he published his Beautifying Country Homes; A Handbook of Landscape Gardening. He spent nearly two years in a visit to Switzerland about this time. In 1874 he entered into a working agreement with Frederick Law Olmsted. With Olmsted he was engaged on a number of important works, such as the grounds of the Schuylkill reservoir in Philadelphia, and Congress Spring Park, Saratoga. He was also employed upon the Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas, the grounds of the state capitol at Des Moines, Iowa, and those of the state hospital, St. Lawrence, N. Y. , and upon many other public and private works, sometimes alone and sometimes in collaboration with Olmsted. A pioneer in the movement for the cemetery in which enclosures are discarded, monuments restricted, and the whole kept in the nature of a park, in 1881 he wrote a two-part article for the American Architect and Building News (September 17, 24) which was a plea for the "modern" cemetery, and in 1888 published Modern Cemeteries. It was Weidenmann's intention to compile and publish illustrations of his designs in a volume to be called "American Garden Architecture. " He actually prepared for publication many plates, illustrating details, but the work was never completed. Many of the plates are now on file in the New York Public Library. At the time of his death he was laying out Pope Park in Hartford. Of a genial, kindly nature, he kept throughout his life his youthful optimism and his cheerful trust in men. He died on Feburary 6, 1893.
( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
He married Anna Marguerite Svecher. They had three daughters.