I am interested in the life and work of John F. Huss, landscape architect. Huss was born on May 11, 1846, in Mallans, Switzerland, near Bern. After education in work in Bern, Paris, and London, he immigrated to the United States, settling in Philadelphia in 1875. He then spent two years with the company of Samuel Parson in Flushing, New York, returning to Philadelphia in 1875 to work with the Buist firm.

In 1885 he was appointed general foreman of the construction of new parks in New York. In 1890 he moved to Lenox, Massachusetts, where he was superintendent of the grounds of the Morgan Estate for eight years. Huss then returned to Switzerland for two years, returning to Hartford, Connecticut in 1900.

Kurt Culbertson
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Aspen, Colorado 81611