AMERICAN ARCHITECTS' BIOGRAPHIES:

Surnames beginning with letter C

CADY, GEORGE W.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Providence, Rhode Island, August 9, 1906. He was born in Providence, August 27, 1825. Although he started as a carpenter, his natural bent led him to study architecture. Among the more notable buildings designed by him were the Barnaby Block, Infantry Hall, the old Low's Opera House, the Newman Hotel. He was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1876 and a Fellow in 1889.
VI - 1908.

CADY, J. CLEVELAND
F.A.I.A. - A well-known architect, died at his home in New York City, April 17, 1919, aged eighty-two years. He was born at Providence, Rhode Island, and had been engaged in the practice of architecture since 1870. He was the designer of many important buildings in New York, among them the Metropolitan Opera House, the American Museum of Natural History, the later buildings of the Presbyterian Hospital, the Skin and Cancer Hospital, Bellevue Medical School, and the Hudson Street Hospital. He designed fifteen buildings for Yale University and buildings for Williams and Trinity Colleges and for Wesleyan University. He was made a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1864 and a Fellow in 1865.
XVI - 1919.

CAIRNS, BAYARD SNOWDEN
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died early in 1935, aged fifty-nine years, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a graduate of Columbia University and the Beaux-Arts under Pascall.
WWAA I - 1936-37.

CAMP, FREDERICK THEODORE
An architect, died at his home in Bloomfield, New Jersey, September 19, 1905. He was fifty-six years old and a native of Burlington, Vermont. He designed the Ocean Grove Auditorium.
VI - 1908.

CAMPBELL, DANIEL
An architect, died at his home in Flushing, Long Island, New York, May 31, 1933. He was born in West Brighton, Staten Island, fifty-four years ago. He was graduated from Cooper Union. He had been a director of the New York Society of Architects and a vice-president of the Long Island Society of Architects, and had served New York City for twenty-eight years in various departments.
XXX - 1933.

CAPARN, HAROLD ap RHYS
Landscape architect, died September 24, 1945, in New York City, aged eighty-one. Born in Newark-on-Trent, England, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Came to New York about 45 years ago. Consultant to Brooklyn Botanical Gardens since 1912; former President, New York Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects; member, Architectural League of New York.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

Addendum by Oliver Chamberlain, added 12/25/08:
I have written the brief essay on Harold ap Rhys Caparn (for plans and articles he used Harold A. Caparn) for Pioneers of American Landscape Design II to be published later in 2009. You may find my brief preview of that essay by googling his name; you will find the preview at The Cultural Landscape Foundation.  I would like to add to your information on him available at your website. That information was supplied by his younger daughter Rhys to the writer of his necrology in Landscape Architecture, Charles Downing Lay.  It is not complete, nor correct in several respects, as follows.  Because he was born on December 18, 1865 and died on September 24,
1945 he was actually 80 years and 9 months of age when he died. If you merely subtract the years, you get 81 as is incorrectly shown. He was 80.  He immigrated to the United States in 1889, as shown on a naturalization paper which he filled out that is in my possession. He worked first for J. Wilkinson Elliot, landscape gardener and nurseryman of Pittsburgh. He moved to Yonkers, NY, where he opened his first office in landscape architecture in 1899. He opened his office in Manhattan in 1902 and remained in NYC until his death in 1945.  He was an early Fellow of the ASLA, in 1905. He was not only the president of the New York chapter of the ASLA, but the national president, in 1911-1912, the first such who was not also a charter member.

CARDIFF, JOSEPH A. F.
A.I.A. - An architect, died October 9, 1917, in the French Hospital in New York City. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1882. He wrote extensively on architectural subjects and for a time was associated with Ernest Flagg and Carrere & Hastings. He was elected a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1914.
XIV - 1917.

CARPENTER, CHARLES E.
F.A.I.A. - A painter and architect, died in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, December 18, 1923. He was born in Pawtucket, May 1, 1845. He was a charter member of the Providence Art Club and became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1875.

CARPENTER, J. EDWIN R.
An architect, died June 11, 1932, in New York, New York. He was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More than ten years ago he evinced belief in the tall modern apartment house and urged that this type of dwelling replace the older single-family homes on upper Fifth Avenue. He then prepared the way for the new skyline of this district. He designed the Lincoln Building and other large modern office buildings and apartment houses in New York. He also collaborated in designing the first cooperative apartment group planned for the Florida resort, El Patio Marino.
XXIX - 1932.

CARR, FRANK AUSTIN
An architect, died March 23, 1947, at his home in Yonkers, New York, aged fifty-seven. Born in Mansfield, Massachusetts, studied at Columbia University School of Architecture. He was deputy state architect and designed and remodeled many buildings in Yonkers. Member of Associated Architects.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CARREL, HENRY CLAY
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died October 19, 1915, at the University Hospital in Philadelphia, aged forty-seven. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and educated in the public schools of that city. At the time of his death, he was a member of the firm of Gillespie and Carrell of New York, his home being in the Borough of Brooklyn. He was elected a member of the Architectural League of New York in 1893, Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1902, Fellow in 1912, and was a member of the Brooklyn Chapter. He was also a member of the Chicago Society, Japan Society, and the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn.
XIII - 1916.

CARRERE, JOHN MARVEN (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died March 1, 1911, as the result of an automobile accident. On the day of his funeral, March 3rd, his body lay in state in the rotunda of the unfinished New York Public Library, of which he was one of the designers. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 9, 1858, but both his parents were American. On his father's side he was descended from a French family that came to this country in the French Revolution and settled in Baltimore. He was educated in the public schools of Lausanne, Switzerland, and received his first art instruction in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris from 1877 to 1882. It was there he met Thomas Hastings. Returning to the United States, Mr. Carrere devoted himself to the construction of panoramas, then he worked as a draftsman in the office of McKim, Mead & White. Here he found Mr. Hastings at work, and in the spring of 1885 they set up for themselves. The first notable work of Carrere & Hastings were two hotels at St. Augustine, Florida - the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar. In New York they erected the Mail and Express Building and numerous private residences in New York and vicinity. In other cities the firm was responsible for the Paterson City Hall; the Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, Virginia; the Laurel-in-the-Pines, Lakewood, New Jersey; the Central Congregational Church, Providence, Rhode Island; the Rome High School, Rome, New York. They entered many competitions, and the firm's name will always be associated with the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street. One of their most important commissions was the New Theatre (now Century) of New York. Other buildings the firm drew plans for were the House and Senate Public Office Buildings in Washington, the Administration Building of the Carnegie Institute, the City Hall of Portland, Maine, fourteen Carnegie Libraries, Woolsey Hall at Yale, and Rockefeller and Smith Halls at Cornell. They designed city houses for Elihu Root and George L. Rives, and the country estates of E. C. Benedict, Giraud Foster, C. H. Tenny, Ledyard Blair, E. H. Harriman, Murry Guggenheim, Otto Kahn, H. M. Flagler, and Col. O. H. Payne. They also made the plans for the McKinley Monument in Buffalo and the Lafayette Monument in Paris. They laid out St. John Park and Hamilton Fish Park in New York and are responsible for the approaches and architectural decorations of the Manhattan Bridge. Mr. Carrere was Chairman of the Board of Architects of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo and designed the block plan, the triumphal entrance bridge, and all the landscape features. He was a member of the Group Plan Commission created by the State of Ohio, and remodeled and redesigned a part of the city of Cleveland, and was appointed to similar commissions for the cities of Baltimore, Maryland, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. As consulting architect of the Government, he designed the annex to the Capitol at Washington, used as the Senate Office Building. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1891 and was a member of the Board of Directors at the time of his death. He was elected an Academician of the National Academy of Design in 1910, and was also a member of the Architectural League of New York, a Vice President of the National Sculpture Society, had been twice President of both the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and of the Beaux-Arts Society of New York. He was a founder of the Fine Arts Federation of New York City and a member of the Art Commission of the City of New York, a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Director of the Academy at Rome. He was a member of the Century Club and was one of the founders of both the Richmond County Good Government Club and the Staten Island Club.
IX - 1911.

CARRINGTON, JAMES BEEBEE
An art editor, died at his summer home near Ridgefield, Connecticut, July 14, 1929. He was a native of Columbus, Ohio. He became an associate editor of Scribner's Magazine in 1887, its first year, and later also became editor of Architecture. He retired from both positions about three years ago. He was a lecturer on art and nature topics and a contributor to magazines. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club.
XXVI - 1929.

CARRISS, HENRY T.
A painter, born in Philadelphia in 1850, died in that city, September 18, 1903. He is noted for his figure pictures and was also a designer of stained glass and other decorative details of architecture. He was at one time the president of the Sketch Club of Philadelphia and was a member of the Art Club of Philadelphia.
IV - 1903.

CARSTENS, FREDERICK
An architect of Baltimore, died at Bloomington, Illinois, July 9, 1912, aged forty-eight.
X - 1913.

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.

CASE, JOHN W.
An architect, died in Michigan, September 10, 1937. He was born March 13, 1864, in Geneva, Ohio. After studying at the University of Michigan, he majored in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later studied in Europe. His career as an architect took him to New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Detroit. He served as Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois from 1905 to 1920, when he returned to Utica, Michigan, where he lived until his death.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

CASEY, EDWARD P. (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died January 2, 1940, in New York City. Born June 18, 1864, Portland, Maine. Vice President, Beaux-Arts Society. Designed many monuments in Washington, D. C., American College at Beirut, Syria.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CHAMBERLAIN, WILLIAM E.
A.A.I.A. - An architect, died at West Manchester, Massachusetts, August 6, 1911, aged fifty-five. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was graduated from the public schools of that city. He was a member of the second class graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During his course in that institution, he specialized in the study of architecture and later became affiliated with the New York firm of Sturgis & Brigham, architects. For several years he was employed by the New York firm of McKim, Mead & White. After severing his connection with them, he was appointed an instructor in the School of Fine Arts in Paris. He later founded the architectural firm of Chamberlain & Austin with offices in Boston. He was the designer of the Cambridge English High School and the Cambridge Hospital and assisted in designing the Harvard Trust Company building. He was a member of the Boston Society of Architects. He retired from business several years ago.
IX - 1911.

CHAMBERLIN, NOEL
Landscape architect, died August 15, 1943, in Cataumet, Massachusetts. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His office was in New York City. Member of the New York Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CHAMBERS, WALTER B. (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died April 19, 1945, in New York City, aged seventy-eight. Born in Brooklyn, New York. Designed a number of buildings at Yale and Colgate Universities. Member of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CHAMBLESS, EDGAR
Died in New York City, May 31, 1936, aged sixty-five. He was a city planner and writer and was widely known as the "Roadtown Man." His plan for a new kind of city, which he had developed over a period of twenty-five years, involved a program of laying down homes, villages, and cities in straight lines like ribbons in open country, so that everyone could live in close access to farms and yet have all the advantages of urban life.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

CHANDLER, FRANCIS WARD (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at North Haven, Maine, September 8, 1926. He was born in 1844. He was made a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1875, and in 1889 he was made a Fellow of the Institute. He was at one time a supervising officer in the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C. and was former head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also a member of the Boston Art Commission.
XXIII - 1926.

CHANDLER, JOSEPH E. (Photo)
Authority on colonial architecture, died August 19, 1945, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, aged eighty-one. Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Had restored the old State House, the Paul Revere house, and others in Boston and elsewhere.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CHANDLER, THEOPHILUS PARSONS
A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Radnor, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1928. He was born in 1845. He was organizer and first director of the School of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a specialist in ecclesiastical architecture and was a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, American Institute of Architects, Society of Mayflower Descendants, Sons of the Revolution, Union League, Philadelphia Club, and Radnor Hunt Club.
XXV - 1928.

CHAPMAN, CECIL BAYLESS
A.I.A. - An architect, died August 27, 1918. He was born at Dubuque, Iowa, in 1876. He was made a member of the Minnesota Chapter, American Institute of Architects in 1912 and became its secretary-treasurer in 1916, continuing in that office until his death. He was made a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1915.
XVI - 1919.

CHAPMAN, CYRUS DURAND
A painter, illustrator, architect, writer, and teacher, died at Irvington, New Jersey, April 12, 1918. He was born at Irvington in 1856 and was a pupil of Wilmarth and J. G. Brown in New York, and of Cormon and Constant in Paris. He was a member of the American Art Society of Philadelphia.
XV - 1918.

CHAPMAN, HENRY OTIS
An architect, died July 27, 1929, at Franconia, New Hampshire. He was born in 1863 and was graduated from Cornell University in 1890. He was senior member of the firm of Henry Otis and Son in New York. Among the examples of his work in New York City are several office buildings on Fifth Avenue.
XXVI - 1929.

CHASE, FRANK DAVID
An architect, died at his home in Evanston, Illinois, July 23, 1937, aged sixty. Born in Riverside, Illinois, he received his technical training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Chase specialized in industrial plant construction, his work including railroad and newspaper plants, office buildings, hospitals, and factories in the United States and Europe. He held several positions as architect to industrial corporations. From 1913 to the time of his death, he was president of his own firm. Among his better known works are newspaper plants designed for The St. Louis Star-Times, the Oklahoman at Oklahoma City, and The Milwaukee Journal, the Chicago Memorial Hospital, and the South Chicago Community Hospital. Mr. Chase was a former president of the Western Society of Engineers and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

CHERRY, WILLIAM JOHN
A.I.A. - An architect, died June 18, 1942, in his home city of White Plains, New York. Born in New York City. Firm of Cherry & Matz specialized in design of churches.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CLAPP, JAMES FORD
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died June 3, 1941, in Boston, Massachusetts, aged sixty-five. Firm of Blackhall, Clapp & Clark. Member Boston Society of Architecture. Designed theatres and office buildings.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CLARK, CHARLES W.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in St. Louis, March 12, 1911. He was born in West Virginia in 1854, was graduated from the University of Illinois as a civil engineer, and followed this by a course of architecture in 1885-86. His principal works are the Y.M.C.A. Building, St. Peter's Church, and St. George's Church, all in St. Louis. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1890.
IX - 1911.

CLARK, EDWARD (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, born in Philadelphia, August 15, 1822, died in Washington, D.C., January 6, 1902. He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and was instructed in engineering by his uncle, Thomas Clark, and in drawing by his father. At an early age he entered the office of Thomas U. Walter, who designed the extension of the United States Capitol. Mr. Clark was made superintendent of the construction of the extension of the Patent Office and General Post Office, when Mr. Walter was placed in charge of these buildings in 1851. Mr. Walter resigned his position as architect of the Capitol in 1865, and Mr. Clark was appointed as his successor. He was continuously employed on the architectural work of the Government for fifty-one years. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1888. Possessed of a remarkably retentive memory, a lover of books and music from his childhood, he was a collector of music and left what was probably the largest private collection in Washington.
IV - 1903.

CLARK, HENRY PASTON
An architect of Boston, died at Kennebunkport, Maine, September 6, 1927. He was born in Boston in 1853.
XXIV - 1927.

CLARK, JONATHAN
A builder, was born in England and came to this country in 1848, and settled in Chicago, died at his winter home near Fruitland, California, February 6, 1902. One of his first buildings, the Academy of Design, was the finest of its kind and the first erected in Chicago exclusively in the interests of the fine arts.
IV - 1903.

CLARK, KENNETH
An architect, died in Washington, D.C., in November, 1931. His studio was in New Rochelle. He had been in the office of Donn Barber and Van Buren Magonigle. Photography was his hobby, and he became one of the best known professionals in the field, particularly in architectural work. He was especially identified with the photographs of early American architecture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is preserving some of his work in this line in anticipation of the time when many of these landmarks will have disappeared.
XXIX - 1932.

CLARK, PETER
An architect, died August 19, 1934, in Fairfield, Connecticut, aged fifty-six. He was a prominent stage designer and inventor of the orchestra elevator. He had been associated with the Radio City project in New York.
WWAA I - 1936-37.

CLARK, SAMUEL ADAMS
A.I.A. - An architect, died November 8, 1931. He was born in Somerville, New Jersey, in 1874. He attended Yale University. He was a member of the architectural firm of Warren & Clark and helped to design the spacious new Clubhouse at the Saratoga race course.
XXVIII - 1931.

CLARK, THEODORE MINOT
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Boston, April 30, 1909. He was born in Boston in 1845 and was graduated from Harvard at the age of twenty. For twenty-seven years he was editor of the "American Architect," and from 1880 to 1887 was professor in charge of the department of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the author of "Building Superintendence," "Rural School Architecture," and other works, was actively interested in civics, and served as a director of the Workingmen's Building Association. He was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1877 and a Fellow in 1881.
VII - 1910.

CLARKE, CHARLES JULIAN
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died March 10, 1908. He was born at Locust Grove, Franklin County, Kentucky, December 16, 1836, studied architecture under Dr. E. A. Grant in Louisville, and after the War became associated with the firm of Bradshaw & Brothers, architects of that city. In 1891 he formed a partnership with Arthur Loomis under the name of Clarke & Loomis. He was elected a member of the Western Association of Architects in 1884, and by act of consolidation became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1889. A charter member of the Engineers and Architects Club, he became its president in 1896 and was the first president of the Louisville Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, formed in 1908, but did not live to assume his duties. VII - 1910.

CLARKE, PRESCOTT O.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Providence, Rhode Island, in the winter of 1936. He designed the Post Office Building, Providence, and several buildings at St. George's School, Newport, Rhode Island.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

CLAS, ALFRED CHARLES
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died July 8, 1942, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his home city, aged eighty-two. Born in Sauk City, Wisconsin. Member of City Park Board, designed the Milwaukee Auditorium and other pubic buildings.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CLEMENCE, GEORGE HENRY
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at Worcester, Massachusetts, February 2, 1924. He was born in Worcester in 1862 and in 1896 was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He designed the Worcester Fire Department Headquarters, the Police Department, the District Court Headquarters, and many fine residences.
XXI - 1924.

CLEMENT, STEPHEN MERRELL
A.I.A. - An architect, died February 28, 1943, at his home in New York City, aged fifty-five. Born in Buffalo, New York. Designed public buildings in Buffalo, New York City, and elsewhere.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CLEVELAND, LORENZO D.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died March 19, 1905, at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. He was born in 1820 and practiced at first in Springfield, Illinois. In 1870 he settled in Chicago, where his most notable work was probably the old State Savings Bank erected in 1874. He was Commissioner of Buildings for Chicago in 1879, supervised the erection of two of the World's Fair buildings, and supervised the erection of the Auditorium Annex. He was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1873 and a Fellow in 1886.
V - 1905.

CLIFFORD, CHANDLER R.
Died in the spring of 1935 at his home in New York. He was born in Boston and was seventy-seven years old. An expert on interior decoration, he contributed frequent articles on decorating and antiques to the New York Herald Tribune, Saturday Evening Post, and other publications. He served on international juries of several expositions, was a publisher, founded the American Association of Interior Decorators, and was chairman of the Design Registration League.
WWAA I - 1936-37.

CLINTON, CHARLES W. (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in New York City, December 1, 1910. He was born in that city in 1838 and after being graduated from the public schools, studied architecture under Richard Upjohn. He early formed the partnership with William Hamilton Russell which continued until his death. Among the most prominent buildings erected by Clinton & Russell in New York City are: Wilkes Central Trust Company, Metropolitan Trust Company, the Seventh Regiment Armory, and the Seventy-first Regiment Armory. Mr. Clinton was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1858 and a Fellow in 1864.
IX - 1911.

CLOUGH, WINFIELD S.
An architect, died February 3, 1932, in Bath, New York, aged eighty. He had been an architect for sixty years and had served his city as mayor and in other offices.
XXIX - 1932.

CLUSS, ADOLF
A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Washington, D. C., on July 24, 1905. He was born in Heilbronn, Wrtemberg, Germany, July 14, 1825. He designed the building of the United States Department of Agriculture and reconstructed the Smithsonian Institution building. The designing of the new Government Printing Office was one of his latest achievements. He also designed the Masonic Temple in Washington and the Concordia Opera House in Baltimore. In 1890 he became Inspector of Public buildings of the United States throughout the country and continued as such until 1895. Mr. Cluss had been an active member of the American Institute of Architects since 1867 and served on the Board of Directors in 1890.
VI - 1908.

COAN, CHARLES M.
An architect, died in August, 1924. He graduated from Pratt Institute in 1902 and became an instructor in architectural drawing at the Institute. He withdrew in 1908 in order to associate himself with the work of the high schools of the city.
XXI - 1924.

COATES, CRAWFORD
An architect, died October 10, 1944, at his home in Manhattan Beach, California, aged seventy-eight. His office had been in Los Angeles, designing schools and churches including those of the University of Washington and of the University of Idaho.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

COBB, HENRY IVES (Photo)
An architect, died March 27, 1931, in New York. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, August 19, 1859, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. After a short service with Peabody & Stearns in Boston, he moved to Chicago where he engaged in a nationwide practice for many years. He was one of the designers of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1892, and in the same year was appointed a special government architect. During the ten years' tenure of his office, he designed the Federal Building at Chicago and the League Island buildings at Annapolis. Since 1902 he had resided in New York. He was one of the first to use steel in the construction of tall buildings. The Chicago Opera House, Chicago Athletic Club, Newberry Library, and the University of Chicago are among the buildings designed by him.
XXVIII - 1931.

COBB, OSCAR
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Seattle, Washington, May 12, 1908. He was born at Robinsons, Aroostook County, Maine, March 12, 1842. He began as a carpenter and joiner, and as was customary at that time, made plans and drawings for buildings. In 1871 he went to Chicago while that city was still burning and opened an architectural office. About 1875 he commenced building theaters, made this work his specialty, and was the architect of over two hundred. He was elected a member of the Western Association of Architects in 1884, and, by act of consolidation in 1889, became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
VII - 1910.

COFFEY, ALFRED I.
An architect, died November 10, 1931, in San Francisco, California. He was born in 1866. He specialized in building schools and hospitals and at the time of his passing was supervising large additions to the San Francisco Municipal Hospital.
XXVIII - 1931.

COGSWELL, CHARLES NORTHEND
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died December 5, 1941, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged seventy-six. Member Boston Society of Architects.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

COLBURN, SERENUS MILO
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 13, 1927. He became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1916.
XXIV - 1927.

COLE, CARLETON G.
Interior designer, died April 18, 1944, at his home in Oakdale, Long Island, New York, aged forty-seven. Born in Buffalo, New York, studied at PIA School and New York School of Interior Decoration. Associated with the New York firm of H. Newton Whittelsey.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

COLLINS, FRANK A.
An architect, died August 29, 1924, at his home in Flushing, New York. He was born in 1858. He studied architecture at Cooper Institute and later became head architect for the J. Milnor Peck Company of Flushing. For twenty-six years he was Deputy Superintendent of Public School Buildings in Queens.
XXI - 1924.

COLLINS, VALENTINE PEERS
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Louisville, Kentucky, December 24, 1923. He was born in Covington, Kentucky, in 1866 and studied under De Jarcin in Cincinnati. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, and from 1909 to 1921 was secretary of the Kentucky Chapter of the Institute. He was also a member of the Engineers and Architects Club of Louisville. His work includes the Presbyterian Church at Middleboro, Kentucky; an apartment house in Louisville, Carnegie libraries at Louisville and Shelbyville, six Y.M.C.A. buildings in Kentucky, and a bank building at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
XXI - 1924.

COLOMBANI, DARIUS
Designer of altars and church ornaments, died in New York, March 21, 1900. He was born in Italy in 1850. Notable among his works were the decorations in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
III - 1900.

COLT, STOCKTON BEEKMAN (Photo)
A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Elizabeth, New Jersey, June 22, 1937. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1863 and was educated at Columbia University. After a short apprenticeship in the office of George B. Post, Mr. Colt opened his own office in New York, which he maintained until his retirement in 1928. Among his larger business buildings are the Barclay Building and the Emmet Building in New York, the latter designed in collaboration with the late J. Stewart Barney. Mr. Colt was a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Architectural League of New York, and the Union County Society of Architecture.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

CONABLE, GEORGE W. (Photo)
A.I.A. - An architect, aged sixty-six, died January 2, 1933, in New York City. He received his architectural training with C. P. H. Gilbert, Barney & Chapman, and Ernest Flagg. Among the buildings designed by him are Trinity Lutheran Church, Long Island City, New York; Chamber of Commerce Building, Jamaica, New York; Trinity Lutheran Church, Schenectady, New York; and the Kingston Avenue Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. At the time of his death, he was associated with Robert J. Schirmer and Julius W. Schmidt. He was a member of the Brooklyn Chapter, American Institute of Architects.
XXX - 1933.

CONKLIN, HERBERT TING
An architect, died at his home in Madison, New Jersey, October 23, 1918. He was born in 1877. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
XVI - 1919.

CONNICK, CHARLES JAY
A.I.A. - Stained glass craftsman, died December 28, 1945, at his home in Boston, Massachusetts, aged seventy. Born Springboro, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1875. Member: Mural Painters, Boston Society of Artists and Craftsmen, New York Society of Craftsmen, Century Association, Boston Architects Club, Boston Art Club, Copley Society, Mediaeval Academy of America, American Federation of Art, Stained Glass Association of America (Chair, executive committee), Honorable Member, American Institute of Architects, Fellow American Academy of Arts and Science. Awards: Gold medal Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915; Logan Medal, American Institute of Craftsmen, 1917-21; Society of Artists and Craftsmen Medal, 1920; Craftsmanship Medal, American Institute of Architects, 1925; Master Fine Arts (honorable), Princeton University, 1932. Responsible for all windows in Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburgh; Stephen Foster Shrine; Fourth Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh; Grace Cathedral; Chapel of Grace, St. Dominic's; Star of Sea Church, San Francisco, California. Windows in St. Martin's Chapel; St. John the Divine; St. Vincent Ferrer; St. James; St. Michael; St. Peter, New York, New York; Westminster Presbyterian, Buffalo, New York; Chapel, Princeton, New Jersey; East Liberty Presbyterian Church; Calvary Church, Pittsburgh; Church of the Covenant, Erie; Pine Street Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg; Chapel Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania; Fourth Presbyterian Church; St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicago; Church of the Holy Spirit, Lake Forest; First Methodist Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois; All Saints Church, Brookline; Sayre Memorial Chapel, Reformatory, Framingham; Chapel, Boston University; Chapel, Holderness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire; Trinity Chapel, National Shrine, Washington, D. C.; Franklin Street Presbyterian Church; St. Paul's Cathedral, Baltimore, Maryland; Chapel of the Little Flower, Detroit, Michigan; Christ's Church, Fenwick, Colorado; Chapel Holy Spirit, Cincinnati; Trinity Catholic Church, Cleveland, Ohio; House of Hope, Presbyterian Cathedral, Nazareth Hall Chapel, St. Paul; Hennepin Avenue Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota; American Church, Paris. Author of a series of articles in the "International Studio," 1923-24; "Adventures in Light and Color," Random House, 1937. Lecturer.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CONSTABLE, STEVENSON (Photo)
A.I.A. - An architect and builder, who was Superintendent of Buildings in New York City, 1895 to 1899, died at his home in New Milford, Connecticut, October 10, 1934, aged eighty-one. He was a native of Philadelphia. He was assistant to the chief architect and engineer of the main buildings of the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. He supervised the erection of many buildings and with his brother designed numerous office buildings and residences in New York.
WWAA I - 1936-37.

COOK, CLARENCE
Author and artist, died at Fishkill, New York, June 1, 1900. Born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1828, he was educated at Harvard and studied architecture. In 1863 he became the art critic of the New York Tribune, to which paper he contributed articles for a number of years. He was the author of "The House Beautiful," in 1888 edited "Art and Artists of Our Times," furnished the notes to a translation of Luke's "History of Art," and was for a time editor of the "Studio."
III - 1900.

COOK, HAROLD J.
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Buffalo, New York, December 20, 1933. He was born in New York City forty-eight years ago. After attending Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin, he began his career in Little Falls, New York, in 1905 and located in Buffalo in 1908. Bank buildings in many cities in New York State and several churches were designed by him. Mr. Cook was former treasurer of the Buffalo Chapter, American Institute of Architects.
XXX - 1933.

COOK, HARVEY
An architect, born in England, died at Tuscon, Arizona, March 26, 1903, aged thirty. He was a member of the firm of Harvey & Bunce of Paterson, New Jersey, and had gone to Tuscon in search of health.
IV - 1903.

COOK, JAMES BARTHOLOMEW
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, February 21, 1909. He was born near London, England, in 1826 and received his education at King's College. He erected the first iron bridge over the Thames and supervised the erection of the Crystal Palace at Hyde Park in 1851. In 1854 he came to the United States and in 1860 settled in Memphis. During the Civil War he was appointed chief of submarine batteries under William R. Hunt, and after the close of the war resumed his profession. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1870 and served as a Director for three years from 1897.
VII - 1910.

COOK, WALTER (Photo)
F.A.I.A., N.A. - An architect, died March 25, 1916, aged seventy. He was born in New York, July 23, 1846, was graduated from Harvard in 1869, and received a Master's Degree three years later. He studied at the Royal Polytechnic School in Munich and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Vaudremer. He was at one time consulting architect for New York City and also served on the Municipal Art Commission. He was President of the American Institute of Architects (Fellow, 1891), of its New York Chapter, and of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. He was also a member of the National Academy of Design (1912), an officer of the Institute of Arts and Letters, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and a member of the Harvard, Century, and MacDowell Clubs. Among buildings designed by firms of which he was a member were the New York Life Buildings at New York, Montreal and Minneapolis, De Vinne Press, the Stadium and other buildings at the Buffalo Exposition, and various branches of the New York Public Library.
XIII - 1916.

COOLIDGE, CHARLES ALLERTON
F.A.I.A. - A well-known Boston architect, died in Locust Valley, Long Island, New York, April 1, 1936. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1858. In 1881 he was graduated from Harvard University. He took a special course in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then resided in Chicago from 1892 to 1900. In 1916 he was sent to China by the Rockefeller Foundation to prepare for the building of a hospital and medical school at both Peiping and Shanghai. Among the buildings designed by Mr. Coolidge are the Art Institute and Public Library, Chicago; Rockefeller Institute, New York City; medical schools and hospital groups at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; Western Reserve University, Cleveland; and the University of Chicago. Other college buildings include those for Stanford University, Sprague Music Building, at Yale, the John Nicholas Brown Library at Brown, and the Harper Memorial, the gymnasium, the commons and the Assembly Hall at the University of Chicago. For Harvard University, he designed the law and medical schools, Huntington Memorial Hospital, various units of the house plan, and the Fogg Art Museum. He was architect for the University of Kentucky and consulting architect for the buildings of Constantinople College in Turkey. In 1906 he became the first recipient of the degree of Doctor of Arts from Harvard. He was also honored with the decoration of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in France in his official position as American Architect to the Paris Exposition, 1899. Among the many offices held by Mr. Coolidge were trustee, Art Institute of Chicago; trustee, American Academy in Rome; director and chairman on education, American Institute of Architects; president, Boston Society of Architects; president, Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati; governor, Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants; member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and United States Commission of Fine Arts. At the time of his death he was a member of the firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott of Boston.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

COOLIDGE, JOSEPH RANDOLPH
F.A.I.A. - An architect, born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 17, 1862, died August 8, 1928, at Centre Sandwich, New Hampshire. He received the degrees of A.B., Harvard, 1883; A.M., 1884; Dresden Poly, 1884; University of Berlin, 1885; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1888-90; Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1891-94; and for many years was consultant in architecture for Coolidge & Carlson, Boston. He was a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the State Library, Concord, New Hampshire; Wentworth Library, Sandwich, New Hampshire; Fellow, American Institute of Architects; member, Boston Society of Architects (Secretary, 1904-05, President, 1905-07); Boston Chamber of Commerce (First Vice-President, 1912-13, President 1913-14); New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1925-28; and of the Somerset and Exchange Clubs of Boston and the Century Club of New York.
XXV - 1928.

COOPER, FRANK IRVING
An architect, died October 23, 1933, at his home in Wayland, Massachusetts. Born in Taunton, Massachusetts, May 8, 1867, he studied engineering and architecture. In 1890 he began independent practice and since 1914 had been president of the Frank Irving Cooper Corporation of Boston and Hartford, Connecticut. He had published a number of articles on school problems.
XXX - 1933.

COOPER, JAMES E.
An architect, died in Washington, D. C., January 11, 1930. He was born in Rockville, Maryland, in 1878. He studied architecture under Macquiray, a noted French architect. He designed many homes and structures in Washington.
XXVII - 1930.

COPE, WALTER (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, born in Philadelphia, October 20, 1860, died at his home in that city, November 1, 1902. He was graduated from the Friends' School in Philadelphia, spent some years in the office of a builder, was a draughtsman under two Philadelphia architects, and then spent some time in foreign travel. Soon after his return from Europe in 1885, he formed a partnership with John Stewardson, which continued up to the time of the latter's death, when his place in the firm was taken by his brother, Emlen L. Stewardson. A partial list of the work of Cope & Stewardson includes dormitories of Bryn Mawr College; dormitories, law school, and medical laboratories of the University of Pennsylvania; the Washington University of St. Louis; and many fine residences, among them the Cassatt House at Rosemount, Pennsylvania.
IV - 1903.

COPELAND, HARRY BAILEY
An architect, died in Malden, Massachusetts, April 7, 1936. He had been a practicing architect in Boston for forty years.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

CORNELIUS, CHARLES OVER
An architect, associate curator of American art in the Metropolitan Museum since 1925, died July 14, 1937, in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. He was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, forty-six years ago and was graduated from Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later entering the office of Frank A. Colby, a New York architect. He had been with the Metropolitan since 1917, serving from 1918 to 1924 as associate curator of the department of decorative art.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

CORNELL, HOWARD I.
An architect, died November 24, 1936, at his home in New Rochelle, New York, aged fifty-two. He was associated with the New York World's Fair in charge of making the miniature models of the fair. He studied architecture at Cooper Institute in New York for nine years and taught at that institution after graduation. He was a member of the American Legion, League of American Architects, Cooper Union Alumni Association, and the American Guild of Organists.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

CORY, MRS. FLORENCE ELIZABETH
A practical textile designer, born in Syracuse, New York, died in New York City, March 20, 1902. She took up designing in 1877, being led to it by the sight of ugly carpets. After a course of theory in Cooper Union, she visited representative factories of the United States and became familiar with the practical end of the business. She became a designer of wall paper, woolens, and silks as well as carpets. After conducting classes at Cooper Union, in 1881 she founded and conducted until her death the School of Industrial Art and Technical Design in New York.
IV - 1903.

COX, ALLEN H.
A.I.A. - An architect, died July 5, 1944, at his home in Granby, Massachusetts, aged seventy-one. He was a partner in the firm of Putnam, Cox & Saltonstall in Boston.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

COXHEAD, JOHN H.
F. A.I.A. - An architect, died May 25, 1943, in Brewster, New York, aged eighty. He practiced chiefly in Buffalo, New York, and Washington, D. C.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CRAM, RALPH ADAMS (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, writer, lecturer, died September 22, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts, aged seventy-eight. He was a member of the Boston firm of Cram & Ferguson. An authority on Gothic architecture, he designed buildings for Princeton University and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point as well as redesigned the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and many other churches. For seven years he was the head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as Chairman of the Boston City Planning Board.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CRAPSEY, CHARLES
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 26, 1909. He was born in that city and had practiced his profession for thirty-four years. Most of his work consisted of church buildings, among which may be mentioned the Presbyterian Church at Seattle, Washington, said to be the largest church on the Pacific coast. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects from 1881 to 1900.
VII - 1910.

CRAWFORD, ANDREW WRIGHT
Art connoisseur and lawyer, died on the golf links, June 27, 1929, at Merion, Pennsylvania. He was born in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1873. Following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, he took a course in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later studied law at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. From 1909 to 1923 he was an instructor in the law department of Temple University. An ardent supporter of the city planning movement, he was closely identified with civic improvement in his own city. He was field secretary of the American Civic Association, 1918-20, and a member of the executive committee of the National Conference on City Planning, 1910-1925. He was secretary of the City Parks Association of Philadelphia from 1900, trustee of the Fairmount Park Art Association from 1903, and secretary from 1922, secretary of the Art Jury of Philadelphia from 1911, and director of the National Housing Association from 1913 until the time of his death. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Federation of Arts for fourteen years and had served as Acting Director since February, 1919. He was also an honorary member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, T Square Club, and Benjamin Franklin Club of Philadelphia.
XXVI - 1929.

CRET, PAUL PHILIPPE (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died September 8, 1945, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, aged sixty-eight. He was born at Lyon, France, October 23, 1876, and studied at the Lyce of Vourge at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Lyon. In 1896 he won the Paris prize and studied for the next seven years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was awarded the Rougevin prize and the Grand Medal of Emulation in 1901, second prize at the Concours Chenavard, and the gold medal at the Salon des Champs Elyses in 1903. He came to the United States in 1903 as Professor of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He designed the memorial arch at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; the Pan-American Union Building, the Fogler Shakespeare Library, and the Federal Reserve Board Building, all in Washington, D. C.; and public buildings in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and Albany. He was one of the Municipal Art Jury in Philadelphia and was in charge from 1904 to 1907 of architectural teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member of the Socit des Architects Diplomes, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, the T-Square Club of Philadelphia (Honorary President), and the Society of Architectural Historians.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CRESSON, WILLIAM PENN
An architect, died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, May 12, 1932. He was born in Claymount, Delaware in 1864, attended the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1897 became a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he continued his studies until 1902. He practiced architecture in Washington for two years and then entered upon a varied career. At different periods he had been an art student, architect, rancher, diplomat, soldier, professor of international law, and an author. In 1921 he was married to Margaret French, daughter of Daniel Chester French, the sculptor.
XXIX - 1932.

CROCKER, WILLIAM H.
A painter, died in Clermont, Florida, October 21, 1928. He was born in New York City, August 25, 1856. He was a pupil of Robert Vonnoh and Charles Rosen. He was elected to membership in the Salmagundi Club in 1900, and was editor of "The American Architect."
XXVI - 1929.

CROWE, ROBERT EMMET
An architect, died July 10, 1944, aged sixty-three. He was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He maintained an office in Cleveland, Ohio, for thirty years, designing many churches and public buildings.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CROWEN, SAMUEL N.
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Lake Forest, Illinois, January 16, 1935, aged sixty-three. He was born in Germany. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Illinois Society of Architects.
WWAA I - 1936-37.

CUMMINGS, CHARLES A. (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Boston, August 11, 1905. He was born in Boston, June 26, 1833. He was one of the organizers of the Boston Society of Architects in 1867, its vice-president in 1885 and 1886 and from 1887 to 1896, and its president from 1896 to 1901. He was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1870 and a Fellow in 1889. He served on many public committees on the commission for preserving and restoring the Massachusetts State House and later on the City's Art Commission. He was president of the Permanent Committee of the School at the Museum of Fine Arts and a trustee of the Boston Athenaeun and of the Museum of Fine Arts.
VI - 1908.

CUNNYNGHAM, BERTRAM
An architect, died June 7, 1946, in New York City, aged seventy-four. He was born in Balsam Lakes, Canada. After being associated with D. H. Burnham in Chicago, he came to New York forty-five years ago, where he designed many business buildings.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

CUSACHS, PHILIP A.
An architect, died in East Islip, Long Island, New York, August 31, 1931. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University in 1907 and in 1911 went to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Graduating three years later, he practiced architecture until 1916, when he took an active part in the World War. Resuming his profession, he specialized in country residences, largely in the south. He was prominently connected with the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. In 1928 he was chairman of the Paris prize committee and also took an active part in arranging the Institute's programs.
XXVIII - 1931.