Marjorie Sewell Cautley, Landscape Architect for the Motor Age

Over the course of four decades, Marjorie Cautley (1891-1954) became the first woman landscape architect to design state parks, plan the landscape for a public housing project, and teach in a university planning department. Sarah Allaback’s absorbing biography illuminates how Cautley transcended both cultural and professional boundaries during one of the most tumultuous eras in American history-the advent of the automobile-to create places for people to lead healthy, vital lives.

SARAH ALLABACK is senior manuscript editor at LALH and an architectural historian specializing in the history of early American women architects. A coeditor of Warren H. Manning, Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner, she is also author of The First American Women Architects and Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type.