CAROLINE LOUGHLIN

Loughlin, Caroline
Trustee of Mount Auburn Cemetery and award-winning historical landscape preservationist, died at her home in Cambridge on October 7, 2013. She was 72. Mrs. Loughlin was born in New Orleans, and graduated from Cornell University in 1961 with a degree in mathematics. In 1962, she married her Cornell classmate, Philip H. Loughlin III, and the couple settled in St. Louis in 1965. Mrs. Loughlin volunteered for twenty-eight years at the St. Louis Zoo, worked on two mayoral master plans for Forest Park, the premier public park in St. Louis, and was a founding member and president of the support group Forest Park Forever. She was coauthor of Forest Park, a definitive history of the park. In 1992, she received the Hiram W. Leffingwell Award for having benefited Forest Park. After moving to Boston in 1999, Mrs. Loughlin volunteered her time at Cambridge's historic Mount Auburn Cemetery, and became a trustee of the cemetery in 2010. She was on the board of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, and volunteered at Fairsted in Brookline, Massachusetts, now the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site of the National Park Service. Mrs. Loughlin was a member of the board for the National Association for Olmsted Parks, and received the group's first Caroline Loughlin Volunteer Service Award. View, the magazine of The Library of American Landscape History, described her as "among the country's most active stewards of the [Olmsted] firm's landscape history," and named her its 2012 Preservation Hero. Mrs. Loughlin was a co-editor of and contributor to The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm 1857-1979, published in 2008. The Master List received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, The Foundation for Landscape Studies and The Boston Society of Landscape Architects. The American Society of Landscape Architects presented Mrs. Loughlin a Professional Honor Award in Communication. Mrs. Loughlin was a copyeditor of NAOP's The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Project, a multi-volume publication of Olmsted's most significant writings. She was editing the forthcoming volume 9 at the time of her death. Mrs. Loughlin was predeceased by her brother, Charles Keller III. She is survived by a sister, Mary K. Zervigon, her husband, Philip H. Loughlin III, two sons, Philip H. Loughlin IV (Ellie M. Loughlin) and Thomas K. Loughlin, and two grandchildren, Christopher R. Loughlin and Katherine E. Loughlin. Mrs. Loughlin was inunrned at Mount Auburn Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Sunday, October 27 at 11:30 am. Donations may be sent to the National Association of Olmstead Parks or to the Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery.