A. E. Hanson (1893–1986) was an American landscape architect and real estate developer in Southern California.
[1][2][3] His father was a Canadian who migrated to the United States in 1885 and worked as a real estate developer, selling orange groves to Midwesterners.
[2] Hanson started his career by working for landscape architects Theodore Payne and, by 1915, Paul Howard.
[8] That year he also designed the a formal English garden for the Gertrude K. and Gerald C. Young House built by Roland Coate in Hancock Park, Los Angeles.
[2] He also worked with architect Charles H. Cheney (1884-1943) to design a highway surrounding the Palos Verdes Peninsula.