Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947
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Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947 Transcribed from the American Art Annual by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Director, Maine Historic Preservation Commission. Between 1897 and 1947 the American Art Annual and its successor volume Who's Who in American Art included brief obituaries of prominent American artists, sculptors, and architects. During this fifty-year period, the lives of more than twelve-hundred architects were summarized in anywhere from a few lines to several paragraphs. Recognizing the reference value of this information, I have carefully made verbatim transcriptions of these biographical notices, substituting full wording for abbreviations to provide for easier reading. After each entry, I have cited the volume in which the notice appeared and its date. The word "photo" after an architect's name indicates that a picture and copy negative of that individual is on file at the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. While the Art Annual and Who's Who contain few photographs of the architects, the Commission has gathered these from many sources and is pleased to make them available to researchers. The full text of these biographies are ordered alphabetically by surname: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z For further information, please contact: Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Director Maine Historic Preservation Commission 55 Capitol Street, 65 State House Station Augusta, Maine 04333-0065 Telephone: 207/287-2132 FAX: 207/287-2335 E-Mail: [email protected] AMERICAN ARCHITECTS' BIOGRAPHIES: ABELL, W. W. A.I.A. - An architect, died at Elgin, Illinois, January 23, 1916. Admitted to the American Institute of Architects in 1901. XIII - 1916. ADAMS, HAROLD FRANCIS A.I.A. - An architect, died January 30, 1934, at Sayville, Long Island, New York, where he had been practicing for many years. He was born in Tansborough, New Jersey, sixty- five years ago, and was a member of the American Institute of Architects, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Masons. WWAAI - 1936- 37. ADELSOHN, EDWARD M. An architect, died May 9, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York. He was born in 1890. He was the designer of the new wing of the Brooklyn Hebrew Maternity Hospital, and of a new group of apartment houses at Jackson Heights. He received his professional training at Cooper Union. XXVII - 1930. ADLER, DANKMAR (Photo) F.A.I.A - An architect, died in Chicago, April 16, 1900. Born in Langsfield, Saxe-Weimar, July 3, 1844; came to this country and studied architecture at Detroit and Chicago. He designed the Chicago Auditorium, the Stock Exchange and many public buildings through the West. He was a member of the New York Architectural League. III - 1900. ADLER, RUDOLPH S. A.I.A. - An architect, died January 19, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, aged fifty- six. Firm of Shutze, Armistead & Adler. WWAA IV - 1940- 47. AGNE, JR., JACOB F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Utica, New York, April 17, 1918. He was born in Utica in 1859. In 1892 he was a made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. XVI - 1919. AHLSCHLAGER, FREDERICK F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Chicago, Illinois, February 28, 1905. He was born at Mokena, Will County, Illinois, March 24, 1858; traveled extensively in the United States and in South American, completed an engineering course at University of Illinois, Champaign, in 1876, and commenced work that year in the office of Mr. Picunard in New Orleans. In 1880 he commenced business for himself in Chicago. He designed many churches, residences and warehouses in Chicago. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1889, and at the time of his death was Vice- President of the Chicago Architects' Business Association. V - 1905. AIKEN, WILLIAM MARTIN F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in New York City, December 7, 1908. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, April 1, 1855; he received his early education in the private schools of that city; attended University of the South 1872- 74; Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1877- 79. He was in the office of H. H. Richardson 1880- 82, William R. Emerson 1882- 84, and practiced in Cincinnati 1886- 1895. As Supervising Architect of the Treasury, Washington, D. C., 1895- 1897, he designed the Government Buildings for the expositions at Atlanta, Nashville, and Omaha, the U. S. Mint at Denver, and numerous post offices, court houses, and custom houses. While Consulting Architect for the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, 1901- 02, he remodeled the interior of the City Hall and of the County Court House. Among his more recent works are the Roper Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Twenty- third Street Public Baths in the City of New York, in which latter work he was associated with Mr. Arnold W. Brunner. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1889; was a member of the New York Chapter, of the Architectural League of New York, and the Century Association. He collaborated with Russell Sturgis in compiling the Dictionary of Architects. VII - 1910. ALBRO, LOUIS COLT A.I.A. - An architect, died in New York City, March 1, 1924. He was born in Paris in 1876, and studied architecture under Stanford White, and later became a member of the firm of McKim, Mead and White. In 1921 he was made a member of the American Institute of Architects. XXI - 1924. ALDEN, FRANK E. (Photo) An architect, died September 15, 1908, at his summer residence at Edgartown, Massachusetts, aged forty- nine years. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the time of his death he was a member of the firm of Alden & Harlow of Pittsburgh, architects of the Carnegie Institute Building, and of most of the large office buildings in that city. He was a member of the Architectural League of New York. VII - 1910. ALDERMAN, GEORGE P. B. An architect, died November 3, 1942, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, aged eighty. WWAA IV - 1940- 47. ALDRICH, CHESTER HOLMES F.A.I.A. - An architect, died December 26, 1940, in Rome, Italy, aged sixty- nine. Born Providence, Rhode Island. New York firm of Delano & Aldrich. Director, American Academy in Rome, 1935- 40. WWAA IV - 1940- 47. ALEXANDER, WINTHROP An architect, died February 6, 1941, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, aged seventy- nine. Born Boston, Massachusetts; educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. WWAA IV - 1940- 47. ALLEN, AUSTIN A.I.A. - An architect, died at Joplin, Missouri, March 1, 1917. He was born in Philadelphia, August 8, 1880, and moved to Joplin at the age of ten. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with the Class in Architecture of 1902. He was prominent in athletics and represented the University of Pennsylvania at the English games held during the coronation of King Edward VII. Later he spent some time in travel and study in Europe. Mr. Allen designed many of the prominent buildings in Joplin. He was elected a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1916. XIV - 1917. ALLEN, FRANK P. A.I.A. - An architect, died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 16, 1934. He was seventy- seven years old, one of the oldest practicing architects in the state, and a partner in the firm of Frank P. Allen and Son. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects and Michigan Society of Architects. WWAA I - 1936- 37. ALLEN, FRANCIS R. (Photo) A.I.A. - An architect, died in Boston, Massachusetts, November 7, 1931. He was born in Boston in 1844. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, and later received an LL.D. from Amherst and an honorary M.A. from Williams. His firm of Allen & Collins designed eight buildings at Williams College, twelve at Vassar, Union Theological Seminary's group in New York, and that of Andover Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, Boston Society of Colonial Wars, and Society of Mayflower Descendants. XXVIII - 1931. ALLEN, FRANK S. An architect, died in Pasedena, California, August 26, 1930. He was born in 1860. In addition to his practice of architecture, he was known as an Egyptologist. XXVII - 1930. ALLEN, JEROME RIPLEY An architect, died December 20, 1928, in New Rochelle, New York. He was bornÏin Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1871. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University. He designed the Architects Building of New York and science laboratory at Vassar College. He was of the firm of Ewing and Allen. During the World War period he was architect for the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy Department, designing and supervising the construction of barracks and cantonments in Brooklyn, Pelham Bay, Ione Island and Lake Denmark, New Jersey, hospitals at Philadelphia and League Island, industrial village at Muscle Shoals, and workmen's camps at Toledo and Cincinnati. He belonged to the Williams and University Clubs and Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. XXVI - 1929. ALLEN, JOHN M. F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Marion, Massachusetts, February 13, 1912. He was born in that city June 24, 1842. His architectural training was begun in the office of Ware & Van Brunt of Boston. He was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1879 and a Fellow in 1889. X - 1913. ALSCHULER, ALFRED S. A.I.A. - An architect, died November 6, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois, aged sixty- four. WWAA IV - 1949- 47. ALSTON, JOHN M. F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Pittsburgh, April 17, 1910, aged eighty-seven.