Anna Hartwell Lusk

Anna Hartwell Lusk (January 8, 1870 – August 21, 1968) was an American socialite during the Gilded Age. and Mary Hartwell (née Chittenden) Lusk.

Her mother died, aged 31, when Anna was 1 year old. A 13-day-old sister, Lily Adams Lusk, died in September 1871, a year and a half after Anna's birth. Chittenden Memorial Library at Yale University was built in honor of Anna's mother.

Her maternal grandparents were Mary Elizabeth (née Hartwell) Chittenden and U.S. Representative Simeon B. Chittenden. Her paternal grandparents were Sylvester Graham Lusk and Elizabeth Freeman Lusk (née Adams).

Society life In 1892, Anna, listed as "Miss Lusk", was included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times. Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.

In 1907, Lusk purchased land from the Paul Smith Hotel Company and hired architect Grosvenor Atterbury to design a "camp" for her, in the Queen Anne style, on Upper St. Regis Lake in New York's Adirondack mountains, adjoining the camp of her brother, known as "Camp Comfort" in Brandreth Park. The camp, which was opened in 1908, "[was to] be one of the most elaborate and extensive of the entire chain of lakes" and featured a two-story living hall with a "monumental fieldstone fireplace."

Personal life Lusk, who did not marry, died at age 98 in Guilford, Connecticut, where she had lived for many years, on August 21, 1968. She was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.