Résumé

Clerk, Samuel Walker Oil Company, Boston, MA, c. 1889.

Employee, Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects, Brookline, MA, 1892-1905. For the Olmsted Brothers, Cook participated in the design of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Chicago's park system and Boston's park system and the layout of Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles County, CA. (See the Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF).org, "Wilbur D. Cook, Jr., 1869-1938," accessed 09/24/2025.)

Employee, Warren Manning, Landscape Architect, Boston, MA, 1905.

Landscape architect, Northern CA, 1905-1906.

Principal, Wilbur D. Cook, Jr., Landscape Architect, Los Angeles, CA, 1906-1920. His most notable early commission in Southern CA was for the layout of the Beverly Hills real estate development for the Rodeo Land and Water Company in 1906.

Partner, Cook and Hall, Landscape Architects, Los Angeles, CA, 1920-1924.

Partner, Cook, Hall and Cornell, Landscape Architects, 1924-1938.

Professional Activities

Member, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

Professional Awards

Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA).

Relocation

Landscape architect Wilbur David Cook, Jr., was born in Atlanta, GA, just four years after the cessation of the Civil War.

In 1908, voter registration rolls listed Cook as living at 2636 Grant Street in Los Angeles's 70th Assembly District. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1908, accessed 09/24/2025.)

He passed away in Los Angeles, CA, on 02/27/1938 in Los Angeles, CA, and was buried at the Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA.

Parents

His father was Wilbur David Cook, Sr., (born 1842 in CT-d. 03/15/1920 in Palo Alto, CA), the son of a wealthy carriage manufacturer in CT.

As indicated in San Joaquin County voter registration records, Wilbur D. Cook, Sr., operated a hotel in Tracy, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1908, accessed 09/24/2025.)

Cook, Sr., married Ella L Scofield.

Spouse

Wilbur D. Cook, Jr., married Kate Redden (some sources list her surname as "Redding," born 07/05/1877 in Kentville, NS, Canada-d. 01/03/1958 in Los Angeles County, CA) on 10/16/1901 in Brookline, MA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915, accessed 09/24/2025.)