J.H. Curtis employed as landscape architect

" - The committee on land for a town hall and library building have employed Mr. J. H. Curtis of Boston, landscape architect, to lay out the grounds and locate buildings, trees and shrubbery. Mr. Cutis has causes a survey of the land to be made, showing grades, etc."

Design for site:
Town Hall and Library
Winthrop, Mass.
July 1898

Joseph H. Curtis, Landscape Architect

 "Born in 1841, Joseph Henry Curtis studied at Brown University until 1861, and then at MIT from 1867 to 1868 after a brief stint in the Civil War. In 1880 Curtis co-founded the Northeast Harbor summer colony in Maine with William Doane and Charles Eliot, then president of Harvard University.
    A self-taught designer, Curtis referred to himself as a landscape gardener and landscape engineer. His practice was based in Boston, but many of his projects were in Maine, where he spent summers. ."