Grounds improvements, Dawson’s Row, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. (Photo: JMA).








 

Jane J. Jacobs, ASLA
Landscape Architect

Jane Jacobs is a registered landscape architect with a master of landscape architecture degree from Cornell University.  She has taught at Rutgers University and the University of Virginia, and has practiced for twenty years in Kentucky, South Carolina, and Virginia, specializing in master plans for historic sites and preservation of cultural landscapes.  She served as the project manager for the Historic Jamestown Project, completed in 2007 for the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown.  Her work has included the garden rehabilitation at the Woodrow Wilson Family Home in Columbia, South Carolina, a master plan for Riverside Park in Lynchburg, Virginia, and a cultural landscape inventory for Andersonville National Historic Site in Andersonville, Georgia.


Laura L. Knott, ASLA
Principal Landscape Architect

Laura Knott has over eighteen years of experience as a landscape architect and oversees JMA’s Charlottesville office, concentrating principally on the study and preservation of historic landscapes.  She holds master’s degrees in landscape architecture and historic preservation, and taught landscape technology and cultural landscape preservation at the University of Texas.  Ms. Knott also worked in private practice in Austin, Texas, focusing on park and public facility design, such as the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.  Her work has included rehabilitation of the Pavilion Alleys at the University of Virginia, site development for the Drennen-Scott House at the University of Arkansas, and a cultural landscape report for Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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