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Carol R. Johnson, who founded a pioneering women-led landscape architecture firm, dies at 91 Bryan Marquard © RYAN, David L Globe Staff Ms. Johnson, in her garden in Cambridge. While working on what would become one of her favorite landscape architecture projects, John F. Kennedy Park in Cambridge, Carol R. Johnson faced a challenge. The late president’s family wanted her to incorporate excerpts from his speeches into the design. One day while hiking along the Flume Gorge in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch, Ms. Johnson realized that if words were inscribed on boulders ...

Carol Johnson, Leading Landscape Architect, Dies at 91 Her firm, one of the largest owned by a woman, was known for large-scale projects in Boston, Washington and elsewhere. Carol Johnson at John F. Kennedy Park in Cambridge, Mass., which her firm designed. She “pushed open the door for acceptance of a larger, woman-owned firm doing prestigious and complex projects,” a colleague said.Credit...via The Cultural Landscape Foundation Published Jan. 8, 2021Updated Jan. 11, 2021 Carol Johnson, who transformed derelict sites into striking civic parks as the founder of what would become one of th...