AMERICAN ARCHITECTS' BIOGRAPHIES:

Surnames beginning with letter S

SANDERS, WILLIAM AUSTIN
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Bronxville, New York, September 30, 1945, aged sixty-six. He was associated with the New York firm of Trowbridge & Livingston. He was a past president of the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. WWAA IV - 1947.

SANDS, WALTER H.
An architect, died in Woodside, Long Island, New York, June 27, 1947, aged fifty-two. His home was in Mt. Vernon, New York. He was an architect for the Federal Housing Administration. WWAA IV - 1947.

SARGENT, ANDREW ROBESON
A landscape architect of Boston, Massachusetts, died in Indiana on March 18, 1918. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts about 1878. Among the estates that he designed are those of Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpone Morgan, Clarence Mackay, and Payne Whitney. XV - 1918.

SARGENT, EDWARD A.
An architect, died February 25, 1914, at his home in Rosebank, Staten Island, New York, aged seventy-two. He designed the country home for John Wanamaker in Philadelphia and was the architect of four public schools and three hundred houses and cottages on Staten Island. He also made the plans for the Ninth Regiment Armory. XI - 1914.

SAWTELLE, FRANKLIN J.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died March 9, 1911, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was born in Norridgewock, Maine, October 9, 1846, was educated in public schools, and while still in his teens entered the office of Francis H. Fassett, a Portland architect. In 1873 he entered the office of Stone & Carpenter in Providence and in 1880 opened an office of his own in that city. Among his works were the Bates Opera House and numerous residences in Providence and neighboring towns. He became a member of the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1885, an Associate of the Institute the same year, and a Fellow in 1889. He was president of the Rhode Island Chapter from 1908 to 1910. IX - 1911.

SAWYER, JOHN MILLS
An architect, died in New York, April 9, 1933, aged fifty. He was born in Allegheney, Pennsylvania and studied at Columbia University and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He designed many New York buildings. For his service in World War I, he was decorated by the French and Montenegran governments. XXX - 1933.

SAYWARD, WILLIAM J.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died February 5, 1946. WWAA IV - 1947.

SCHACK, JAMES HANSEN
An architect, died in Seattle, Washington, March 16, 1933, aged sixty. He was a native of Denmark and studied architecture in Chicago, establishing a practice in Seattle more than thirty years ago. XXX - 1933.

SCHELL, GEORGE J.
An architect, died in Chicago, Illinois, July 28, 1937, aged sixty-nine. Since 1891 Mr. Schell had been chief architect for Daniel H. Burnham & Company. He designed many buildings in downtown Chicago, including the Carbon and Carbide Building, the Bankers Building, the Engineering Building, and the Burnham Building. He was the architect for several structures in the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933. WWAA II - 1938-39.

SCHICKEL, WILLIAM
F.A.I.A. - An architect and a member of the firm of Schickel & Ditmars, died June 14, 1907. He was born in Hochbein, Germany, January 29, 1850. When twenty years of age he found employment the day after his arrival in New York City with Richard Morris Hunt. Many churches, residences, and business buildings in New York City testify to his art, such as the churches of St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Monica, and St. Joseph; the Staats-Zeitung Building, and residences of Thomas F. Ryan, John D. Crimmins, and Isaac Stern. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1894. VI - 1907.

SCHMID, RICHARD GUSTAV
An architect, died June 6, 1937, in Chicago, Illinois, aged seventy-four. Born in Chicago, Mr. Schmid was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in Europe. He started practicing in Boston and later headed a company bearing his name in Chicago. He specialized in designing Masonic temples and industrial buildings. Among the many Masonic temples of his creation are the Medinah Temple, Chicago, and those in Kenosha, Wisconsin; Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Elizabeth, New Jersey. WWAA II - 1938-39.

SCHNEIDER, KRISTIAN
An architectural modeler, died in Crystal Lake, Illinois, August 12, 1935, aged seventy. He was born in Bergen, Norway and came to this country at the age of twenty. Among his best known works were the "Golden Arch" of the Transportation Building at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago and architectural decorations for the Chicago Auditorium, the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, and the Prudential Building in Buffalo. WWAA I - 1936- 37.

SCHNETZKY, H. P.
A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 21, 1916. He was admitted to the American Institute of Architects in 1912. XIII - 1916.

SCHOENBORN, AUGUST
An architect, died in Washington, D. C., January 24, 1902, aged seventy-four. He was born in Germany about 1827. He studied at Erfurt and came to this country in 1849. He found employment in the architect's office of the Capitol in Washington in June, 1851 and was the designer of the celebrated dome of the Capitol. He also drew plans for a number of public buildings in Washington and during the Civil War rendered valuable service in the preparation of maps and plans for General McDowell. IV - 1903.

SCHREINER, PETER
An architect, died in the early fall of 1936 at his home in College Point, Long Island, New York, aged eighty-three. While he specialized in residential work, he also designed St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Odd Fellows Hall, and several factories in Queens. WWAA II - 1938-39.

SCHUYLER, MONTGOMERY
A writer on architectural and art topics, died at his home in New Rochelle, New York, July 16, 1914. He was born in Ithaca, New York, August 19, 1843. He came to New York City about 1865, became an editorial writer on the World, and was on the staff of the Times from 1883 to 1907. He had studied architecture and knew many artists, for he was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Century Association. His published works include "Westward the Course of Empires" and "Studies in American Architecture." He was a frequent contributor to the Architectural Record and other periodicals. XI - 1914.

SCHWEINFURTH, JULIUS A. (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Wellesley Farms, Massachusetts, September 29, 1931. He was born in Auburn, New York, September 20, 1858. For thirteen years he was associated with the Boston firm of Peabody & Stearns. After a brief practice in Cleveland, Ohio and further study abroad, he engaged in architecture independently in Boston from 1895 until his death. He had made a special study of early Greek and Etruscan sculpture, was the author of "Sketches Abroad," and contributed to architectural magazines. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the Boston Society of Architects. XXVIII - 1931.

SCOFIELD, LEVI T.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, February 25, 1917. He was born November 9, 1842. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1870 and was a member of the Cleveland and Cincinnati Chapter as well as the Architectural League of New York. His best known work is the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in the Public Square of Cleveland. XIV - 1917.

SCUDDER, HENRY DARCY, JR.
An architect, died October 5, 1941, in Brielle, New Jersey, aged fifty-six. He was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He maintained an office in Newark, New Jersey. He was president of the New Jersey Society of Architects. WWAA IV - 1947.

SEARLES, PAUL C.
An architect, died May 16, 1947, in Clearwater, Florida, aged seventy-seven. He was a member of the firm of Searles, Hirsch & Gavin in Cleveland, Ohio, who built the city's first modern apartment house and Shaw High School there. WWAA IV-1947.

SEDGWICK, HENRY RENWICK
A.I.A. - An architect, died August 15, 1946 in Newport, Rhode Island, aged sixty- five. He was born in New York City and attended Harvard University and the Columbia University School of Architecture. He practiced in New York City. He was the corresponding secretary for the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. WWAA IV - 1947.

SEE, MILTON
An architect, died October 27, 1920, at his home in Mount Vernon, New York. He was born in 1854 and for many years was a member of the firm of Cady, Bird & See. Among the important buildings for which Mr. See's firm prepared plans were the original Metropolitan Opera House, the Museum of Natural History, and the Presbyterian Hospital. He also assisted in designing many churches. XVIII - 1921.

SEELER, EDGAR VIGNERS (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 26,1929. He was born in Philadelphia, November 18, 1867. Following study at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia and graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was a pupil of Victor Laloux at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in three years won three silver medals in competition. On his return to Philadelphia in 1893, he was appointed assistant professor of architectural design at the University of Pennsylvania, filling the position for five years. Among the prominent structures he designed in Philadelphia are the Curtis Publishing Company Building, Bulletin Building, Real Estate Trust Building, Department of Architecture Building at the University of Pennsylvania, First Baptist Church, and Flower Observatory on West Chester Pike. He also planned the James V. Brown Memorial Library in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and the Cannon Club in Princeton, New Jersey. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1900. He was a member of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, a trustee of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, and a director of the Fairmount Park Art Association. XXVII - 1930.

SELLERS, HORACE WELLS
A.I.A. - An architect, died at Ardmore, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1933, aged seventy-seven. He was a former president and director of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. XXX - 1933.

SELLERS, PHILIP
An architect of New Haven, Connecticut, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1929. He was president of the New Haven Chapter of the American Association of Engineers, and as an architect he designed several large buildings in his home city. XXVI - 1929.

SEUBERT, LOUIS HENRY
An architect, died at his home in New York City, June 19, 1916, aged fifty. He was born in Alton, Illinois and studied architecture in St. Louis and Paris, settling in New York in 1899. In addition to other projects, he superintended all the interior work of the New York Public Library and much of the Grand Central Terminal. XIII - 1916.

SEVERANCE, H. CRAIG
An architect, died September 2, 1941, in Neptune, New Jersey, aged sixty-two. He was born in Chazy, New York and studied architecture in this country and in France. He maintained an office in New York City and designed the Bank of Manhattan Building as well as other commercial buildings. WWAA IV - 1947.

SHAPTER, RICHARD S., SR.
A.I.A. - An architect, died June 16, 1947, at his home in Summit, New Jersey, aged seventy-eight. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He designed many important buildings in Summit and Madison, New Jersey. He was the former president of the Union County Architectural Society and a member of the New Jersey State Society of Architects. WWAA IV - 1947.

SHARPLEY, WALTER WILLIAM
An architect, died August 12, 1935, in Haddonfield, New Jersey, aged fifty-six. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Drexel Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and later at the American Academy in Rome. Among the structures designed by him were the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia; Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City; and 112th Field Artillery Armory, Camden. He was assistant chief designer of the Louisiana Purchase exhibits at the St. Louis Exposition. WWAA I - 1936-37.

SHAW, GEORGE R.
An architect, died at his home in Concord, Massachusetts during the winter of 1936. He was born in Parkman, Maine in 1848. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1869 and continued his studies in London and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1902 he retired from a partnership with Henry Hunnewell of Wellesley. Among his outstanding designs were the Convalescent Home for Women of Brookline, Pierce Hall at Harvard University, and the Wellesley Town Hall. He was a member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. WWAA II - 1938-39.

SHAW, HOWARD VAN DOREN (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Baltimore, Maryland, May 7, 1926. He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1869 and was a graduate of Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1906 and was made a Fellow in 1907. The gold medal of the American Institute of Architects for architectural achievement was awarded to him just before his death. He designed the Goodman Memorial Theater in Chicago, which functions with the Art Institute, the Quadrangle Club, the Church of the Disciples of Christ, the Pullman Trust and Savings Bank, and many residences in Chicago and elsewhere. He also planned the model steel town of Indiana Harbor and the Market Square at Lake Forest, Illinois. XXIII - 1926.

SHEA, EDWARD L.
An architect, died February 12, 1923. He was born in 1873. He was the constructor of the automobile speedway at Sheepshead Bay, New York. XX - 1923.

SHEA, FRANK T.
An architect, died in Ross, California, September 16, 1929. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, he went to San Francisco at an early age and, upon completing his education there, attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. For thirty years he was one of the leading architects of San Francisco, being city architect for two years following the fire when he designed and supervised the building of the City Hall of Justice. He was best known for the Catholic churches he designed in all parts of California. XXVII - 1930.

SHEETS, GEORGE T.
An architect, died in New York on May 2, 1911, aged eighty-one. He was born at Emmitsburg, Maryland and spent most of his life as an architect in Baltimore. IX - 1911.

SHEETZ, WILLIAM CRAMP
An architect, died November 20, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, aged seventy-three. He was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the firm of Savery, Sheetz & Gilmore. WWAA IV - 1947.

SHEPARD, BENJAMIN HALSTED
An architect, died May 11, 1936, at his home in Orange, New Jersey, aged sixty- three. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and had practiced architecture in the Oranges for thirty-five years. WWAA II - 1938- 39.

SHEPLEY, GEORGE FOSTER
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at St. Moritz, Switzerland, July 19, 1903. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he was a student at Washington University, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and began practicing architecture in the office of H. H. Richardson. At the time of his death, he was a member of the firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge of Boston. Among the buildings designed by that firm are the Harvard Medical School Building, the Chamber of Commerce, Boston; the Art Institute, Chicago; Leland Stanford University, California; and the Union Station, Albany. IV - 1903.

SHIPMAN, STEPHEN VAUGHN
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Chicago, Illinois, November 12, 1935, aged eighty. He came to Chicago from Madison, Wisconsin in 1871. He drew plans for the Academy of Music in Chicago and superintended its construction. He designed the hospitals for the insane at Elgin and Anna, Illinois and at Mendota and Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The dome of the Capitol at Madison and U. S. Post Office there were designed by him. He was elected a Fellow of the Western Association of Architects in 1884 and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1889.

SHIRK, J. C. MARSHALL
A.I.A. - An architect, died at Scranton, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1918. He was born in Philadelphia in 1865 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was the architect of the Pennsylvania State Hospital, the Philadelphia Home for Incurables at Fairview, Pennsylvania, and the Marine National Bank at Erie, Pennsylvania. He was made a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1901. XVI - 1919.

SHOPE, HENRY BRENGLE
An etcher and architect, died at Bellevue, France, September 21, 1929. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 1, 1862. He was a pupil of Preissig, William R. Ware, Richard Morris Hunt, and Satterlee. He was a member of the Architectural League of New York, Chicago Society of Etchers, Brooklyn Society of Etchers, and California Printmakers. Three dozen of his etchings, covering a diversity of subjects, are in the New York Public Library, and others are in the National Museum at Washington, D. C. XXVI - 1929.

SHREVE, RICHMOND
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died September 10, 1946, at his home in Hastings-on- Hudson, New York, aged sixty-nine. He was born in Cornwallis, South Carolina and studied at Cornell University School of Architecture. He was a member of the firm of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, whose works included the Empire State Building, military and naval installations, and public and private housing projects. He was the director of the Slum Clearance Committee of New York in 1933, president of the American Institute of Architects from 1941 to 1943, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He established the Shreve, Lamb & Harmon fellowship at Cornell University. WWAA IV - 1947.

SILL, HOWARD
A.I.A. - An architect, died at his summer home in Glenvale, Prince George's County, Maryland, July 22, 1927. He became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1916. He was chosen the architect for the Municipal Art Museum of Baltimore, Maryland, but owing to his bad health and subsequent death, the plans were carried out by John Russell Pope, who was associated with him in their preparation. XXIV - 1927.

SILLOWAY, THOMAS WILLIAM (Photo)
An architect, died in Boston, Massachusetts, May 16, 1910, aged eighty-two. He designed the State Capitol, Montpelier, Vermont; Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio; Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vermont; Jenks Memorial Library, Conway, New Hampshire; and nearly five hundred churches. VIII - 1911.

SIMMONS, B. STANLEY
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Washington, D. C., September 8, 1931. He was born in Charles County, Maryland in 1872, but had been a resident of Washington since the age of ten. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among the buildings which he designed in Washington are the National Metropolitan Bank, Lafayette Hotel, Fairfax Hotel, Barr Building, and the Wakefield Hall Apartments. XXVIII - 1931.

SIMONDS, OSSIAN COLE
A landscape architect, died November 20, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 11, 1855, he was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1878 as a civil engineer. He was a member of the firm of Simonds & West and for many years was consulting landscape designer for Lincoln Park. During his career he designed parks in Madison, Wisconsin; Dixon and Quincy, Illinois; and Hannibal, Missouri, besides doing city planning in all parts of the country. XXVIII - 1931.

SIMONSON, OTTO G.
An architect, died at his home in Baltimore, Maryland, June 25, 1922. He was born in 1862. For twenty years he was supervising Superintendent of Public Buildings for the United States and had designed many public buildings and residences in Baltimore. XIX - 1922.

SIMPSON, ALICE MARY
Assistant Secretary of the Architectural League of New York, died May 16, 1934, in New York City, aged sixty-four. She had been associated with the League since the earliest days of its organization while she was a pupil at the Art Students League. At the annual meeting of the Architectural League on May 3, 1934, she was awarded the Allied Arts prize, known as the President's Medal, in recognition of her "forty years of unsparing devotion" to the League. WWAA I - 1936-37.

SKEEL, ALBERT E.
An architect, died late in the summer of 1937 at his home in Brecksville, Ohio, aged seventy-two. He was born in Bristol, England and came to the United states when he was twelve years old. While attending school, he served as an assistant for several architects, and by the time he was twenty years old, he was established as an architect. Mr. Skeel was a sponsor of the restoration of early landmarks in Ohio. He completely restored the Brecksville Congregational Church, which was built in 1839. WWAA II - 1938-39.

SKINNER, THEODORE HOBART
An architect, died September 4, 1944, at his home in Kenwood, New York, aged seventy-one. He designed a number of college buildings. WWAA IV - 1947.

SLEE, JOHN BAY
An architect, died January 14, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York, aged seventy-one. He was a member of the firm of Slee & Bryson. He designed the courthouse in Brooklyn. WWAA IV - 1947.

SMITH, BOWEN B.
A.I.A. - An architect, died in New York City, October 26, 1932. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, June 19, 1869. After graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1890, he studied in the Atelier Paul Blondel in Paris. He practiced architecture from 1895 until his retirement in 1925. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects and a charter member of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. XXIX - 1932.

SMITH, FRANCIS BERKELEY
An illustrator and architect, died in France in the fall of 1931. He was born in Astoria, New York, August 24, 1868, the son of F. Hopkinson Smith, author, artist, and engineer. He studied architecture at Columbia University, practicing the profession until 1896, when he became an author and illustrator. In addition to "The Real Latin Quarter" and "Budapest, the City of the Magyars," he produced a number of other books, short stories, and magazine articles. XXVIII - 1931.

SMITH, FRANK HILL
A decorator, died in Boston, Massachusetts in 1904. He was born in that city in 1841 and studied architecture with Hammatt Billings. Later he went to the Atelier Suisse in Paris and was also a pupil of Bonnat and others in Paris and Italy. He was on the Jury of Fine Arts at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 and was one of the directors of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He painted portraits, figure pieces, and landscapes, but his most important works were the decorations of the Opera House in Holyoke, Massachusetts and private and public buildings in Boston and Cambridge. V - 1905.

SMITH, F. LEO
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Washington, D. C., July 21, 1935, aged forty-two. He was a native of Ohio. Since 1932 he had served as technical secretary of the structural service bureau of the American Institute of Architects. WWAA II - 1938-39.

SMITH, GEORGE WASHINGTON
A.I.A. - An architect, died March 16, 1930, in Santa Barbara, California. He was born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania in 1879. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1899 and later studied in Paris. In California he became well known for Hispanic design in houses, a type which he introduced to the west. He was a member of the Art Alliance of America. XXVII - 1930.

SMITH, RICHARD SHARP
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Asheville, North Carolina, February 14, 1924. He was born in Harding, Yorkshire, England in 1852 and came to the United States in 1882. From 1886 to 1895 he was in the offices of Richard Morris Hunt. Six years of this time he spent as supervising architect of the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina. He was elected to the American Institute of Architects in 1913 and was a member of the North Carolina Chapter. XXI - 1924.

SMITH, WILLIAM H.
An architect, died suddenly April 14, 1916, in New York City, aged seventy. XIII - 1916.

SMITH, WILLIAM NEIL
An architect, died in Poughkeepsie, New York, January 1, 1934. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and had carried on an active practice in New York State. Among his buildings were the Masonic Temple in Schenectady, Municipal Building in Little Falls, and the Broad Street and Cranleigh Hospitals and National Theater in New York City. WWAA I - 1936-37.

SMITHMEYER, JOHN L.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Washington, D. C., March 12, 1908. He was born in Vienna, Austria and came to this country in 1848, settling in Chicago where he studied architecture. He then moved to Indianapolis, Indiana and after the Civil War was appointed superintendent of the construction of government buildings in the south. He settled in Washington and became associated with Paul J. Pelz. The designs of this firm were accepted for the Library of Congress in 1873, although the work was not started until 1886. Among other buildings erected by Smithmeyer & Pelz are Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Carnegie Library in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and the Army and Navy Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Mr. Smithmeyer was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1875 and a Fellow in 1886. He was a member of the Washington Chapter and served three terms as its president. VII - 1910.

SNEDEN, ARTHUR DURANT (Photo)
An architect, died January 23, 1942, at his home in Spring Valley, New York, aged sixty-eight. He was born in Nyack, New York. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was the head architect for the New York Board of Education from 1923 to 1932 and designed many schools, churches, banks, and country homes. WWAA IV - 1947.

SNELLING, G. T. (Photo)
An architect, died April 2, 1920, at his home in New York City. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in 1882 was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. XVII - 1920.

SNOOK, JOHN BUTLER
An architect, died at his home in Brooklyn, New York, November 1, 1901. He was born in London, England on July 16, 1815 and came to New York as a child. Among the buildings he designed were the Metropolitan Hotel, the Hoffman House, Grand Central Station, All Angels Church, and the William H. Vanderbilt House in New York and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Packer Institute in Brooklyn. IV - 1903.

SNOOK, SAMUEL BOOTH
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, March 13, 1915. He was born August 21, 1857 in New York City, and his active life was spent in Brooklyn, New York. He designed All Angels Church at West End Avenue and Eighty-first Street and the Stern Brothers Building at Sixth Avenue and Forty-second Street. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1895. XII - 1915.

SOUTHWICK, HORACE CALFLIN
An architect, died at his home in New York City, January 4, 1925. He was born in 1873 and studied architecture for several years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. XXII - 1925.

SPERRY, JOSEPH EVANS
An architect, died in Baltimore, Maryland, August 6, 1930. He was born in Georgetown, South Carolina in 1854. He settled in Baltimore at an early age and started practice as an architect. His name has been closely linked with the growth of Johns Hopkins University and Medical School. He designed the civil and mechanical engineering buildings at Homewood. He also designed the Dispensary, Institute of Pathology, Halstead and Osler Clinics, Wilmer Eye Institute, and the Women's Clinic in the medical and hospital group of the institution. The Union Memorial Hospital, together with the Johnston Children's Clinic and the Bauernschmidt Memorial, also were designed by Mr. Sperry as were the Equitable and Calvert Buildings, Emerson Hotel, and Emerson Tower Building. XXVII - 1930.

SPIERING, LOUIS C.
A.I.A. - An architect, died March 9, 1912. He was born in St. Louis in 1875 and was a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the University of Berlin. He was a member of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and was elected an Associate of the Institute in 1905. He was consulting architect for the Missouri State Capitol and designed many buildings in St. Louis, including the home of the Artists' Guild, of which he was a member. X - 1913.

STAHLEIN, GUSTAVUS
An architect, died April 17, 1916, at his home in Newark, New Jersey. He was born in New York City in 1840, studied in Munich, Vienna, and Berlin, and in 1870 opened an office in Newark. At the time of his death, he was a member of the firm of Stahlein & Steigner. XIII - 1916.

STANLEY-BROWN, RUDOLPH
An architect, died in Augusta, Georgia, February 7, 1944, aged fifty-four. He was born in Mentor, Ohio and studied at the Columbia University School of Architecture and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was a member of the firm of Abram Garfield in Cleveland, Ohio, which also had an office in Washington, D. C. WWAA IV - 1947.

STARRETT, GOLDWIN
A.I.A. - An architect of New York City, died at his home in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, May 10, 1918, aged forty-four. He was born in Lawrence, Kansas, September 29, 1874 and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1894. He then entered the employ of Daniel H. Burnham in Chicago. He was made a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1915. XV - 1918.

STEAD, ROBERT
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1943, aged eighty-seven. He was a member of the Archaeological Institute of America. He designed schools, homes, and business buildings. WWAA IV - 1947.

STEARNS, JOHN GODDARD
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Duxbury, Massachusetts, September 17, 1917. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1863. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1894 and was a member of the Boston Chapter. A silver medal was awarded to his firm, Peabody & Stearns, at the Paris Exposition of 1900. XIV - 1917.

STECKLER, BENJAMIN
An architect, died in Saranac Lake, New York, January 13, 1924. He was born in 1874. At one time he was connected with McKim, Mead & White. XXI - 1924.

STEINLE, CHARLES ALBERT
A.I.A. - An architect, died in New York City, March 10, 1930. Born in New York, July 6, 1863, he was educated in Germany. Upon returning to New York, he entered the profession of architecture and practiced there throughout his life. He designed the Savoy Hotel, Herald Square Hotel, Oliver Ditson, Marbridge, Best & Company, and Rogers Peet Buildings, and several large apartment houses. He was a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Institute of Architects, Architectural League of New York, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. XXVII - 1930.

STEM, ALLEN H.
An architect, died in St. Paul, Minnesota, May 19, 1931. He was born in Van Wert, Ohio in 1856. He was a pupil at the Indianapolis Art School. For thirty years he was a partner in the firm of Reed & Stern, which collaborated in the designing of Grand Central Station and the Biltmore Hotel in New York. More than one hundred railroad stations were designed by the firm, including stations in Detroit, Michigan; Norfolk, Virginia; and Utica, New York. They also planned the Auditorium and Athletic Club in St. Paul, Minnesota; medical buildings at the University of Minnesota; and the Auditorium in Denver, Colorado. XXVIII - 1931.

STEPHENSON, ROBERT STORER
An architect, died in Westport, Connecticut, May 26, 1929. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1858. Following his graduation in 1880 from Amherst College, he became associated with McKim, Mead & White, with whom he received his early architectural training. He was a partner in the New York architectural firm of Stephenson & Wheeler. XXVI - 1929.

STERNER, FREDERICK J.
An architect, died in Rome, Italy, November 12, 1931. Born in England in 1862, he came to this country at the age of sixteen years and subsequently became a naturalized American citizen. He received his academic and professional education in the United States and began the practice of architecture in Denver, Colorado. He left the west and established himself in New York City. He was best known there for remodelling brownstone town houses into residences of varied design. He was also the architect for the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and the Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Since 1925 he had made his home in London. XXVIII - 1931.

STEVENS, EDWARD FLETCHER
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Newton, Massachusetts, February 28, 1946, aged eighty-five. He was born in Dunstable, Massachusetts and was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He designed many hospitals and other institutions. He was a member of the Boston Society of Architects. WWAA IV - 1947.

STEVENS, JOHN CALVIN (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Portland, Maine, January 25, 1940. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 1855. He was a member of the Architectural League of New York, the Maine Chapter, A.I.A., and the Portland Society of Art. WWAA IV - 1947.

STEWARDSON, EMLYN LAMAR (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Atlantic City, New Jersey, February 10, 1936. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1863 and attended the University of Pennsylvania. He was associated with several Philadelphia firms. He planned many educational buildings, notably at Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He also was the architect for the Municipal Building in Washington, D. C., and for the Glen Mills School and the Sleighton Farm in Darlington, Pennsylvania. During the World War I he served with the Red Cross in France. His clubs were the Philadelphia and the Rittenhouse. WWAA II - 1938-39.

STEWART, ALEXANDER W.
An architect, died in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 13, 1928. He was born in 1867 and was a graduate of Kenyon College. He designed several major buildings in Ohio. XXV - 1928.

STICKLES, WALTER F.
An architect, died in Mount Vernon, New York, March 19, 1929. He was born in Ossining, New York in 1860. He had studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts and had designed many buildings in Mount Vernon. XXVI - 1929.

STICKLEY, GUSTAVE (Photo)
A furniture designer, died in Syracuse, New York, April 21, 1942, aged eighty- four. Born in Osceola, Wisconsin, he moved to Binghamton, New York, where in 1884 he established a furniture factory to carry out some of Ruskin's ideas. He was the founder and editor of "The Craftsman" magazine. WWAA IV -1947.

STICKNEY, FREDERICK W. (Photo)
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Lowell, Massachusetts, January 18, 1918. He was made a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1900. XV - 1918.

STINE, DAVID L.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Toledo, Ohio, August 3, 1941, aged eighty-three. He designed many public buildings. WWAA IV - 1947.

STODDARD, WILLIAM LEE
A.I.A. - An architect, died in New Rochelle, New York, October 1, 1940, aged seventy-one. He was born in Tenafly, New Jersey and graduated from the Columbia University School of Architecture. The firm in New York City with which he was associated specialized in designing hotels. WWAA IV - 1947.

STOKES, ISAAC NEWTON PHELPS
An architect, died at his home in New York City, December 18, 1944, aged seventy-seven. He was born in New York City. He studied at the Columbia University School of Architecture and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1897 to 1917 he was a member of the New York firm of Howell & Stokes, which designed St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University and many other buildings. He was a member of the New York Municipal Art Commission from 1911 to 1939. He edited the "Iconography of Manhattan Island." WWAA IV - 1947.

STONE, ALFRED
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Peterboro, New Hampshire, September 4, 1908. He was born in East Machias, Maine, July 29, 1834. He studied surveying and drawing while attending high school in Salem, Massachusetts. He worked in several architectural offices until 1859 when he entered the firm of Alpheus C. Morse of Providence, Rhode Island. In 1864 Mr. Stone opened an office of his own in that city. The firm at the time of his death was Stone, Carpenter & Sheldon. Among the buildings designed by Mr. Stone and his associates in Providence are the County Court House, Public Library, Y.M.C.A. Building, Slater Hall and other buildings at Brown University, Exchange Bank, Pendleton Museum, and numerous private houses. He was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1870, a Fellow in 1896, was its secretary from 1893 to 1898, and served on the Board of Directors until his death. He was an active member of the Rhode Island Chapter, of which he was president at the time of his death. VII - 1910.

STONE, WILLIAM E. (Photo)
An architect, was killed by a train in Princeton, New Jersey on August 26, 1905. He practiced in New York City. He had been a member of the Architectural League of New York since 1888 and at one time was its secretary. V - 1905.

STORM, ARTHUR L.
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Bronxville, New York, November 26, 1936, aged sixty-five. Born in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, he was graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1893. For many years he was associated with D. Everett Wald of New York and assisted in designing the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building and buildings at the College at the City of New York. WWAA II - 1938-39.

STOUGHTON, CHARLES W.
An architect, died in Mount Vernon, New York, January 8, 1945, aged eighty- four. Born in New York City, he studied at the Columbia University School of Architecture. He was a member of the New York firm of Stoughton & Stoughton, which designed buildings for Canton Christian College. He was active in the Municipal Art Society of New York, serving as its president from 1914 to 1916. WWAA IV - 1947.

STOUT, PENROSE VASS
A.I.A. - An architect of Bronxville, New York, died in Boston, Massachusetts, October 24, 1934. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1887 and was graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn in 1909. His early practice was in Pensacola, Florida and in New York City until the beginning of World War I. He achieved a notable record in the Air Service in France and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Since the war he had practiced architecture in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and New York, designing many homes in Westchester County. WWAA I - 1936-37.

STRONG, CARLTON
A.I.A. - An architect, died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 25, 1931. He was born in Lockport, New York in 1869. He designed Bellefield Dwellings, the first modern apartment building in Pittsburgh; the Rittenhouse Hotel and Mt. Mercy Academy; Seton Hill College, Greensburg; St. Vincent College, Latrobe; and many schools and churches. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. XXVIII - 1931.

STURGIS, DANFORTH NATHANIEL BARNEY
An architect, died August 19, 1911. He was a son of Russell Sturgis, the architect and writer on art. He was graduated from Yale University in 1889 and at the time of his death was a member of the firm of Sturgis & Baxon of New York. IX - 1911.

STURGIS, NORMAN ROMNEY
An architect, died at the home of his son in Fort Salonga, Long Island, New York, February 2, 1947, aged fifty-six. He studied at Harvard University. During the last thirty years, he had lived in Albany, New York, where he designed many private homes and public buildings. WWAA IV - 1947.

STURGIS, R. CLIPSTON, JR.
An architect, died at his home in Boston, Massachusetts, October 18, 1913, aged thirty. He was graduated from Harvard in the class of 1904. XI - 1914.

STURGIS, RUSSELL
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in New York, February 11, 1909. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 16, 1836 and was graduated from the College of the City of New York with a B.A. in 1856. In 1870 he received an M.A. from Yale University, which conferred a Ph.D. upon him in 1893. He studied in architects' offices in New York City and Munich, Germany, practicing in New York from 1863 to 1880. Among the buildings designed by him were those for Yale University. He was active chiefly as a writer and lecturer on art and was for many years editor of the art department of Scribner's Magazine. Among the books written by him are "European Architecture, an Historical Study," "How to Judge Architecture," "Appreciation of Sculpture," "Appreciation of Pictures," "The Artist's Way of Working," "The Interdependence of the Arts of Design" (the Scammon course of lectures delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1904), and a "History of Architecture," the third volume of which has not yet been published. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1865 and was a member of the New York Chapter. He was president of the Architectural League of New York for four terms, was the first president of the Fine Arts Federation of New York, and was an honorary member of the National Society of Mural Painters and the National Sculpture Society. VII - 1910.

STYLES, SILAS M.
An architect, died in New Rochelle, New York, September 30, 1911, aged ninety. IX - 1911.

SUGARMAN, M. HENRY
An architect, died in New York City, October 12, 1946, aged fifty-eight. He studied at the National Academy of Design, the Columbia University School of Architecture, and in England and France. He organized the firm of Sugarman & Berger in 1926, which designed the New Yorker Hotel, the Mayfair Hotel in Philadelphia, and the Long Beach Hospital on Long Island as well as buildings in Europe and Central America. WWAA IV - 1947.

SULLIVAN, BENJAMIN
An architect, died at his home in New York City on February 4, 1901. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was graduated from Yale University in 1870 and, after studying in Europe, began his professional career in New York in 1873. He prepared the plans for the Morse Building, Temple Court, and other large structures in that city. IV - 1903.

SULLIVAN, LOUIS HENRI (Photo)
An architect, died in Chicago, Illinois, April 14, 1924. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1856 and was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Among the buildings he designed are the Transportation Building for the Chicago World's Fair, the Condict Building in New York, the Prudential Building in Buffalo, and the Wainwright and Union Trust Buildings in St. Louis. He was the author of many articles on architecture for technical journals. XXI - 1924.

SUSSTORFF, CHARLES A.
An architect, died in Albany, New York, May 27, 1929. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, August 5, 1874. He was former Deputy State Architect. XXVI - 1929.

SWAIN, EDWARD ROBINSON
A.I.A. - An architect, died on April 10, 1902. He was born in San Francisco, California in 1852. He was educated in that city and entered the office of Kenitzer & Farquharson, architects. In 1877 he began to practice independently, and among the numerous buildings designed by him were the H. S. Crocker and Hobart buildings. During the last few years of his life, he erected a number of important structures in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1899 he became a member of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and was elected an Associate in 1901. IV - 1903.

SWARTOUT, EGERTON (Photo)
An architect, died in New York City, February 18, 1943, aged seventy-two. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Yale University. He maintained an office in New York and designed the State Capitol at Jefferson City, Missouri, the new wing of the Yale Museum, churches, and commercial buildings. WWAA IV - 1947.

SWEENEY, JAMES
A.I.A. - An architect, died in New London, Connecticut, July 3, 1919. He was born there in 1870. He took a special course in architectural design at the Academy of Design in New York City. He designed many of the public buildings of New London, among them the Municipal Building, Harbor School, St. Mary's Parochial School, Lyric Hall, Union Bank and Trust Company Building, St. Mary's Convent, Quaker Hill School, Thames Hall of Connecticut College, and many residences. XVI - 1919.

SYLVESTER, EDMUND Q.
An architect, died at his home in Hanover, Massachusetts, September 22, 1942, aged seventy-three. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He designed the Curtis Public Library in Hanover and many churches. WWAA IV - 1947.