William Neff Photograph Collection 1952-1987

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William Neff Photograph Collection 1952-1987

Beginning in 1930 Neff began working as a landscape architect. Although Neff was primarily a golf course landscape architect, occasionally he also took residential and commercial jobs, as well as projects for the US National Parks Service. During the mid-1950s Neff oversaw the landscaping done at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Los Angeles Temple.

6 boxes; 3.5 linear ft.

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Neff family

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Los Angeles Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Mt. Olympus Nursery

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Little America (Flagstaff, Ariz.)

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Neff, William H. (William Henrichsen), 1905-2001

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William Henrichsen Neff was born September 22, 1905 in Salt Lake City, Utah; the son of William Cyprus and Caroline Henrichsen Neff. In 1925, Neff established the Mount Olympus Nursery which he operated until 1995, in addition to his landscaping work. In 1926, he enrolled at the University of Utah to study landscape architecture, but majored in art and botany because the university did not offer landscape architecture at that time. Neff took correspondence courses from the American Landscape Sch...