A.E. Hanson

A.E. Hanson
Born	Archibald Elexis Hanson December 20, 1893 Chino, California
Died	February 21, 1986
Occupation	Landscape architect, real estate developer

A.E. Hanson (1893–1986) was an American landscape architect and real estate developer in Southern California. He designed gardens on the campus of the University of Southern California as well as in Bel Air. He developed two gated communities near Los Angeles, California: Rolling Hills and Hidden Hills.

Archibald Elexis Hanson was born on December 20, 1893, in Chino, California. His father was a Canadian migrated to the United States in 1885 and worked as a real estate developer, selling orange groves to Midwesterners. He only attended high school for two years, before he started working.

Hanson started his career by working for landscape architects Theodore Payne and, by 1915, Paul Howard. In 1916, he started his own architectural firm.

In 1921, Hanson designed the gardens of the Getty House in Los Angeles, which serves as the official residence of the Mayor of Los Angeles. From 1925 to 1929, he designed the 4.75-acre gardens of the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills, California. In 1927, he designed the Hawaii garden of the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden in Bel Air, Los Angeles for oilman Gordon G. Guiberson. In 1928-1929, he designed the gardens of the Archibald Young House designed by architect George Washington Smith in Pasadena, California.

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