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 in a set of linked documents: [A-F] [G-K] [L-R] [S-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: sheshet@state.me.us

BORING, WILLIAM A. (Photo)
:: F.A.I.A., A.N.A. - An architect and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia University School of Architecture, died in New York, May 5, 1937, aged seventy-seven. He was born in Carlinville, Illinois. He attended Blackburn College in Carlinville, the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Ecole des Beaux Arts. He practiced in Los Angeles from 1883 to 1886 and in New York since 1890. He joined the school at Columbia in 1915 as Professor of Architecture and head of the faculty. In 1919 he became director and in 1931, upon reorganization of the school, dean. On March 30, 1933, he received the title of Dean Emeritus. In 1929 he was made Ware Professor of Architecture, and in 1925 the Boring Fellowship was established in his honor, providing for sending a graduate student abroad every three years for study and travel. He was a founder and first president of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects and a founder and treasurer of the American Academy in Rome, where he was a visiting Professor of Fine Arts in 1930. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a former president of the New York Chapter whose medal of honor for individual service he received in 1927. A former member of both the National and Municipal Art Commissions, Mr. Boring was also a member of the first United States Council of Fine Arts, a corresponding member of the Society of Architects Accredited by the French Government, a former president of the Architectural League of New York, and an Associate of the National Academy. He was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France. He won the gold medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and medals at the Buffalo Exposition in 1901 and the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. Among his better-known works are the United States Immigration Station at Ellis Island; the Jacob Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Maryland; Institute for Blind, West Hartford, Connecticut; Glenwood Springs Hotel, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and many other public buildings in various parts of the United States.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

BROCKWAY, ALBERT LEVERETT
:: F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Syracuse, New York, June 26, 1933. He was born in Utica, New York, December 28, 1864. He was graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1883 and later studied in Paris. For a number of years he was a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He served as consulting architect for the New York State Agricultural College and the Capitol at Albany, was a member of the State Board of Examiners for registration of architects from 1915 until his death, and was chairman of the board of directors of the Council of Registered Architects of New York State. He was chairman of the first City Planning Commission of Syracuse, president of the Syracuse Society of Architects, and president of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. In 1898 he was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and had been an executive vice-president and regional director of that body. He was also a member of the Beaux Arts Society of Architects.

CARY, GEORGE
:: F.A.I.A. - An architect, died May 5, 1945, at his home in Buffalo, New York, aged eighty. Designed many public buildings. Member of Buffalo Society of Architects and Albright Art Gallery.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

DONALDSON, JOHN M.
:: F.A.I.A. - An architect, died December 20, 1941, in Detroit, Michigan, aged eighty-seven. Firm of Donaldson & Meier. Designed many buildings in Detroit and for the University of Michigan.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

FLAGG, ERNEST (Photo)
:: An architect, died April 10, 1947, at his home in New York City, aged ninety. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He had practiced in New York since 1891. Among buildings he designed were the Singer, lower Manhattan; the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland; St. Luke's Hospital and the State Capitol at Olympia, Washington; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. He was a former president of the New York Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. WWAA IV - 1940-47.

JOSSELYN, EDGAR A. (Photo)
:: A.I.A. - An architect, died April 26, 1943, in Mount Kisco, New York. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Beaux-Arts Society. WWAA IV - 1947.

LORD, AUSTIN WILLARD (Photo)
:: A painter and architect, died at Silvermine, Connecticut, January 19, 1922. He was born in Rolling Stone, Minnesota in 1860. He studied architecture in Minneapolis and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the Rotch Scholarship in 1888. He was director of the American School at Rome from 1894 to 1896 and was architect to the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1912. From 1912 to 1915 he was professor of architecture and director of the School of Architecture at Columbia University. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club. XIX - 1922.

McGUIRE, JOSEPH H.
:: A.I.A. - An architect, died April 28, 1947 in the Bronx, New York City, aged eighty-two. He was born in New York City and studied at City College and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He established a practice in New York in 1892 and designed several schools, churches, residences, and St. Elizabeth's Hospital in that city. He was a member of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. WWAA IV - 1947.

TILTON, EDWARD LIPPINCOTT (Photo)
:: A.I.A. - An architect and archaeologist, died January 5, 1933, at his home in Scarsdale, New York. He was born in New York City, October 19, 1861. Following his entry into architecture with McKim, Meade & White, he went to Paris in 1887 for three years of study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He later formed a partnership with William A. Boring, and the firm was awarded one of the two American gold medals at the Paris Exposition in 1890. During World War I Mr. Tilton designed sixty library buildings and a number of Liberty Theaters for camps in the United States. In 1916 the firm of Tilton & Githens was formed. Among the buildings designed by them are the Wilmington Public Library, which received the American Institute of Architects gold medal for excellence in public work; the Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore; the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Natural History, Springfield, Massachusetts; and the Currier Art Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire. Mr. Tilton was a founder of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects and treasurer of its Paris Prize Committee for twenty-five years. He was at one time president of the American Institute of Architects and was made an Associate in 1900. Also well-known as an archaeologist, he was sent in 1895 by the Archaeological Institute of America to Greece on a restoration project. He was treasurer of the New York Society of the Institute at the time of his death. XXX - 1933.

TROWBRIDGE, SAMUEL BRECK PARKMAN (Photo)
:: F.A.I.A., A.N.A. - An architect, died at his home in New York City, January 29, 1925. He was born in New York in 1862. He graduated from Trinity College in 1883 and from Columbia in 1886 and then studied at the Atelier Daumet and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was associated with George B. Post from 1894 to 1898 and since 1898 had been a member of the firm of Trowbridge & Livingston. He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1906 and was an Associate of the National Academy of Design. He was also a member of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, the New York Architectural League (past president), the British Institute of Architects (honorary), an incorporator, vice-president and trustee of the American Academy in Rome and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. A medal of honor was awarded to the firm by the American Institute of Architects for the Phipps residence in New York. Other work by the firm in New York included Bankers Trust Company, Morgan Building, New York Stock Exchange addition, B. Altman store; the Palace Hotel in San Francisco; and the Mellon National Bank in Pittsburgh. His foreign honors included the Legion of Honor, the Greek Order of the Redeemer, and Grand Commander of the Order of the Crown, Rumania. XXII - 1925.

WARREN, WHITNEY (Photo)
:: An architect, died January 24, 1943, in New York City, aged seventy-eight. He was born in New York City and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was a partner in the firm of Warren & Wetmore, which specialized in railroad stations, hotels, and business buildings. WWAA IV - 1947.