Harold Caparn was a landscape architect who was active in New York during the first four decades of the twentieth century. He was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England and was educated at the University of London and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. After arriving in the United States in September, 1889, he worked first in Pittsburgh (1890-1897) and then, beginning in 1898, in Yonkers, New York. He moved his office permanently to Manhattan beginning in 1902. From 1899 to 1904 he designed for the New York Zoological Park[the Bronx Zoo] the Entrance Concourse, the central Baird Court, as well as other parts of the landscape. He taught the first course on landscape architecture offered by Columbia University in the summer of 1911 and tough there until 1913. At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, after consulting on the design of the Native Flora Garden in 1911, he was appointed landscape architect to the Garden in January, 1912. He worked there for over thirty-two years and desiged many areas of the site, including the Cranford Rose Garden, the Magnolia Plaza, the Osborne Garden, the Herb Garden, the Horticultural Section, and the Systematic Section (now called the Plant Family Collection). He also designed parks in Yonkers, Newark, and Manhattan, park-like spaces such as the Woodland Garden at the 1939 World.s Fair and Lake View Cemetery in Ithaca, New York, as well as landscape designs for private estates. He was elected a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1905 and was elected president in 1912.