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4 unusual facts about Marjorie Sewell Cautley


Marjorie Sewell Cautley

After Sunnyside Gardens, Cautley went on to work on the Phipps Garden Apartments in Sunnyside (1930), and Hillside Homes (1935), yet her most well known commission with Stein and Wright was at Radburn in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she continued to experiment with the lessons learned at Sunnyside.

It was perhaps Cautley’s interest in these neighborhood spaces, combined with this strong interest in local species, which caused the architects/planners Clarence Stein and Henry Wright to take an interest in her.

She went on to receive a degree in landscape architecture in 1917 from Cornell University, and was employed shortly thereafter by the architect Julia Morgan in Alton, Illinois, who was best known for her designs at Hearst Castle.

Phipps Garden Apartments

The buildings enclose a landscaped courtyard by landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley.



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