[1] After college, Kuh undertook an apprenticeship with the landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman in Massachusetts.
[3] Over a career spanning some forty years, Kuh designed over 400 landscaping projects and gardens.
[1] Between 1950 and her retirement in the 1970s, Kuh designed some 250 landscaping projects about which somewhat more is known, mostly for private residences in and around Chicago, Lake Forest, Winnetka, Glencoe, and Highland Park, Illinois.
[1] She was designing in an era when many large estates were being broken up into smaller parcels, and she became known for her skill at helping these small plots maintain a sense of spaciousness and privacy through such techniques as clustering trees and shrubs, planting trees with strong sculptural lines that signaled grandeur, and using color schemes that skewed towards green.
Her papers are held by the Art Institute of Chicago and include letters from Shipman and an oral interview with Kuh's son John.