Restoration of Old Landscape Planned for Nebraska Capitol

 

The Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln was built by Goodhue and landscaped by Ernst H. Herminghaus, Nebraska?EUR??,,????'???s first professional landscape architect.

Along with current construction plans for the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, the lawn and four interior courtyards will be restored to the original landscape layout of Ernst H. Herminghaus, Nebraska?EUR??,,????'???s first professional landscape architect. Herminghaus?EUR??,,????'??? design was completed in 1933.

Herminghaus was born in Lincoln in 1890 and earned a bachelor?EUR??,,????'???s degree in horticulture from the University of Nebraska in 1913, followed by a master?EUR??,,????'???s in landscape architecture from Harvard in 1915. He influenced park design in Lincoln from 1915 to 1948 and is particularly noted for his work at Pioneers Park. At Pioneers he and unemployed men working through the Depression?EUR??,,????'???s Works Progress Administration turned 600 acres of vacant land into a public space of ornamental lakes and ponds with activity areas connected by curving roadways and avenues of grass flanked by conifers, leading the viewer?EUR??,,????'???s attention toward statuary or back toward the Capitol.