AMERICAN ARCHITECTS' BIOGRAPHIES:

Surnames beginning with letter E

EAST, WILLIAM J.
A.I.A. - An architect, died May 3, 1936, at Asheville, North Carolina, aged seventy-one. He went to Asheville in 1913 from Pittsburgh, where he had served for several years on the Civic Planning Commission. He was a past president of the Western Pennsylvania American Institute of Architects, and he organized the Society of Architects of Ohio and Pennsylvania. He designed numerous churches and many public schools.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

ECKES, EDMOND JACQUES
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at St. Joseph, Missouri, aged eighty- nine. He designed many important buildings in St. Joseph.

EDMINSTER, C. FRANKLIN
Head of the Architectural Department of Pratt Institute, died January 25, 1932, at his summer home in Sayville, Long Island, New York, as the result of a motor accident suffered in August. He was born in East Freetown, Massachusetts in 1865 and received his training in architecture at Boston Normal Art School. Following his graduation in 1887, he went to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he founded the Architectural Department and had been supervisor for the forty-three years since its organization. As honorary president of the Pratt Architectural Club, he advised and guided many students. A specialist in construction work, he was the author of several books, including one on the use of structural steel and an important textbook, "Architectural Drawing."
XXIX - 1932.

EGAN, JAMES J.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Chicago, December 2, 1914. He was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1839. After his graduation from Queen's College in that city, he moved to New York and finally settled in Chicago about 1870. He designed the Court House in that city and numerous Roman Catholic churches in Pittsburgh and other cities. He became a member of the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1908 and a Fellow of the Institute in 1913.
XII - 1915.

EHRENBERG, FREDERICK
A landscape architect, died at his home in the Borough of the Bronx, New York City, September 22, 1910. He was born in Brunswick, Germany and was the author of several books on architecture.
VIII - 1911.

EIDLITZ, CYRUS L. W.
An architect, died suddenly at his summer home at Southampton, Long Island, October 5, 1921. He was born in New York in 1853 and studied in Switzerland and Germany. Among the buildings he designed were the Buffalo Public Library and the Bar Association, Washington Life and Liberty Bank, and the Civil Engineer House in New York.
XVIII - 1921.

EIDLITZ, LEOPOLD
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in New York City, March 22, 1908. He was born in Prague, Austria, March 29, 1823, was educated at the Polytechnic in Vienna, and came to the United States when twenty years of age. When about twenty-five years of age, his designs for St. George's Church in Stuyvesant Square, New York, were accepted. Later he erected the Tabernacle at 34th Street and Sixth Avenue and the Synagogue at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street, New York and also Christ's Church in St. Louis, which has since been made the Cathedral. Among the secular buildings designed by him are the old Produce Exchange, the American Exchange National Bank, the Dry Dock Savings Bank, the old Academy of Music in Brooklyn. He was associated with H. H. Richardson in his work on the Capitol at Albany and was Commissioner to overlook the work prior to 1875. He was the author of the book "The Nature and Function of Art" and wrote various papers for the professional press. He was one of the founders of the American Institute of Architects in 1857 and retained an active membership until his death.
VII - 1910.

EISINGER, LUDWIG W.
A.I.A. - An architect, died February 5, 1935 at Mount Vernon, New York, aged sixty. Mr. Eisinger was born in Vienna and received his architectural training in France and Germany. He designed the church and gardens at the Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills and was associated with the firm which designed the Riverside Church, New York.
WWAA I - 1936-37.

ELLIS, HARVEY
A painter, architect, and worker in applied arts, died in Syracuse, New York, January 2, 1904. He was born in Rochester, New York, in 1852, studied under Edwin White at the National Academy of Design, and exhibited at the New York Water Color Club, of which he was a member, and at other art societies. His home was in Rochester, where he was president of the Rochester Society of Arts and Crafts.
V - 1905.

ELZNER, ALFRED O.
An architect, died in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 26, 1933, aged seventy-one. He was a pioneer in the use of concrete for buildings and several decades ago designed the Ingalls Building in Cincinnati, one of the first concrete-constructed skyscrapers. Among other buildings he designed were those of Berea College, Kentucky and the Homestead Hotel, Hot Springs, Virginia.
XXX - 1933.

ELY, JOHN H.
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Newark, New Jersey, April 21, 1932. Born in New Hope, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1851, he went to New Jersey as a boy. He had been an architect in Newark since 1885 and prominent in the civic and political life of the city. The firm of John H. and Wilson C. Ely, of which he was a senior partner, designed many prominent buildings, including the city halls of Newark and East Orange. He was a member of the New Jersey Historical Society and the Washington Association of Morristown.
XXIX - 1932.

EMERSON, WILLIAM RALPH
An architect, died at his home in Milton, Massachusetts, November 23, 1917. He designed many of the large country residences at Newport, Rhode Island and Bar Harbor, Maine.
XV - 1918.

EMORY, WILLIAM H., JR.
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Baltimore, Maryland, August 9, 1936, aged fifty-seven. He was born in Baltimore and designed many local homes and office buildings, his best-known work being the Municipal Building. Among the organizations to which he belonged were the Merchants and University Clubs.
WWAA II - 1938-39.

EPPINGHAUSEN, CHARLES
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Chicago, Illinois, on January 3, 1904. He was born in Florence, Italy, June 2, 1840, where he received his early education. After he came to this country, he was employed in the office of Samuel Sloan and later in that of Thomas U. Walter. At an early age he opened an office for the practice of architecture in Terre Haute, Indiana and resided there many years. He was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1876 and a Fellow in 1880.
V - 1905.

EPPS, ORLO
An architect, died at Oneonta, New York, June 2, 1926. He was born in 1865.
XXIII - 1926.

ESCHWEILER, ALEXANDER C.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died June 12, 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aged seventy-four. Worked in the Milwaukee firm of Eschweiler & Eschweiler. Member of the State Association of Wisconsin Architects. Designed many homes and churches. WWAA IV - 1940-47.

ESTEBROOK, JOSEPH
An architect, died at his home in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, on June 1, 1906, aged eighty-three. He was one of the experts appointed by the government to examine Ericsson's first monitor, was appointed by Lincoln as Colonel of Engineers, and was chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Richmond County after the war.
VI - 1907-08.

EURICH, FRANK, II
An architect, died November 25, 1942, in Detroit, Michigan. He had an office at one time in Jersey City, then in Hackensack, New Jersey. He designed schools and public buildings in those cities.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.

EVANS, ALFRED F.
A.I.A. - An architect, died December 16, 1934, in Flushing, New York, aged sixty-two. He was born in Liverpool, England and came to the United States when fourteen years old. He had formerly been associated with several New York and Connecticut firms and the Canadian Pacific Railroad. He belonged to the New York Sketch Club and the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
WWAA I - 1936-37.

EVANS, ALLEN (Photo)
A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home at Haverford, Pennsylvania, February 28, 1925. He was born in Philadelphia in 1849. He became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1911.
XXII - 1925.

EVANS, EDMUND CADWALADER
A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1934, aged fifty-six. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and there are many country homes of his designing in the vicinity of Philadelphia. He became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1912. While failing health caused him to retire as an architect, after World War I he continued his efforts in behalf of world peace, serving on the executive committee of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, National Civil Liberties Bureau, and other similar organizations.
WWAA I - 1936-37.

EVANS, THOMAS D. (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, born in Wales, July 21, 1844, died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1903. He came to America in 1856 with his father and settled in Pittsburgh. He studied architecture in the office of Barr & Moser and began to practice for himself in 1871. He was a charter member of the Pittsburgh Chapter and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Among the prominent buildings erected by him were Shakespeare Public School, the State Reformatory at Huntington, and the Academy of St. Xavier at Latrobe. He had just completed plans for the Soldiers Memorial Hall to be erected in Allegheny County. IV - 1903.

EYRE, WILSON (Photo)
An architect, died October 23, 1944, at his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, aged eighty-six. He worked in the firm of Eyre & McIlvaine, designers of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and other public buildings.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.