Joseph Miller Huston

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Joseph Miller Huston (February 23, 1866 – November 16, 1940) was an American architect. He began his career at the architectural firm of Frank Furness and Sons and worked on the design of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Broad Street Station. He opened his own firm and worked on the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, the Monmouth Hotel, the Union League of Philadelphia, the Witherspoon Building, and the Oaks Cloister, his home and studio. In 1901, Huston won the design competition for the new Pennsylvania State Capitol over eight other competitors. His submission was controversial since he was a member of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Architects and they had forbidden their members from entering the contest. He was one of five people convicted of graft in 1910 after a state investigation of cost overruns in the construction and furnishing of the capitol. He served 6 months in prison before being paroled in 1911. He partnered with Stanford Lewis in the firm Lewis & Huston which...

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