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Marian Cruger Coffin (1876-1951) was an American landscape architect. She was a fellow of the American Institute of Landscape Architects. She "was one of the first and foremost female landscape architects in the United States, one of the first women to graduate from a formal program and establish her own practice."

Coffin studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a degree in landscape architecture, becoming one of the first female landscape architects in the United States. She was commissioned (in 1925?) by Frances Dixon Frick, wife of Childs Frick and daughter-in-law of Henry Clay Frick, to design gardens of Clayton, the Frick estate in Roslyn Harbor, New York, which are now included in what became the Nassau County Museum of Art. She designed a large rectangular formal garden there in 1930. She reportedly was most proud of this work.

She designed gardens of Winterthur, a DuPont family mansion in Delaware. She designed extensive "Country era" gardens at Gibraltar, an estate on the outskirts of Wilmington, Delaware, also DuPont-related.

Several of her works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Works include:
 * Frick Estate gardens, now in Nassau County Museum of Art
 * Dupont mansion
 * Gibraltar, Wilmington, Delaware, NRHP-listed
 * Springbank, 69 Neck Rd., Old Lyme, Connecticut (Coffin, Marian Cruger), NRHP-listed
 * Raemelton Farm Historic District, bounded by Marion Ave., Millsboro and Trimble Rds. Mansfield, Ohio (Coffin, Marian Cruger), NRHP-listed
 * Mt. Cuba Center, Delaware