Background
Blossom, Harold Hill was born on October 6, 1879 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Frederick Augustus and Sarah Carson (Hill) Blossom.
Blossom, Harold Hill was born on October 6, 1879 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Frederick Augustus and Sarah Carson (Hill) Blossom.
Preparatory education, Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, and Pratt Institute High School. Bachelor of Science Amherst, 1902. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1906, Master in Landscape Architecture, 1907.
With Olmstead Brothers, landscape architects, Brooklyn, 1907-1919, working on Atlantic Coast from Maine to Cuba, and from Seattle to San Diego, on Pacific Coast. Practiced on own account in Boston, since 1919, specializing in gardens and country estates, also real estate developments. Member of faculty Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, 1926-1927.
Lecturer to Cambridge School Domestic Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
Instructor landscape architecture, Harvard, summer 1932. Landscape engineer Connecticut Valley Park Commission, 1923.
Appointed by governor member Connecticut Valley Regional Planning Board, 1924.
Fellow American Society Landscape Architects, Boston Society Landscape Architects (president 1930-1931), Architectural League of New New York
Married Minnie Motley Dawson, September 23, 1908 (died October 19, 1922). Married second, Louise Barnes Thompson, February 16, 1926. Children: Elizabeth Thornton, Thomas, Eleanor, Margaret Blackwell.