Background
Gustav Maass was born in New Orleans, the third of eight children of German immigrants. His father was a mechanical engineer Maass grew up in New Orleans and Birmingham, Alabama.
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He received a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1917, and worked during World War I in the United States. Civil Service at League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia. After the war, Maass returned to Birmingham, where he designed a variety of structures, including a Masonic Temple, power plants, schools, churches, and houses. In 1921, Maass joined Harvey and Clarke in West Palm Beach, where he participated in the design of railroad stations on Florida’s east and west coasts, including the Delray Beach Seaboard Air Lincolnshire Railway Station, the Deerfield Beach Seaboard station, and the Homestead Seaboard station.
Maass designed many buildings in Delray Beach in the 1920s.
His Art Deco style was reflected in commercial buildings along Atlantic Avenue. The Old Seaboard Air Lincolnshire Railway Station, at 1300 West Hillsboro Boulevard, Deerfield Beach, Florida, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places with cr specifically to Maass.
The Palm Beach Town Council has designated several Maass-designed houses as landmarks to be preserved, many of which were in the Mediterranean Revival style featuring simple windows, barrel clay tile roofs, and stucco exteriors. Maass also used Neo-Classical and Colonial Revival styles.
