AMERICAN ARCHITECTS' BIOGRAPHIES:

Surnames beginning with letter T

TANGEN, KRISTEN
An architect, died at his home in New York City, September 17, 1917, aged sixty. He was for many years with the firm of Warren and Wetmore. XIV - 1917.

TASHJIAN, ARMEN H.
An architect and engineer, died April 3, 1947, at his home in Canton, Ohio, aged sixty-six. He was born in Armenia. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later taught there. As a member of the Cleveland firm of Walker & Weeks, he designed and engineered many churches and public buildings. WWAA IV - 1947.

TAYLOR, EUGENE HARTWELL
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, October 29, 1924. He was born in Denmark, Iowa in 1853. He was a graduate of Grinnell College in 1876 and took a special course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was associated with Josselyn & Taylor of Cedar Rapids from 1882 to 1924. He was made a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1884 and became a Fellow in 1889. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he designed the following buildings: St. Luke's Hospital and Mercy Hospital in 1902, Carnegie Library in 1903, Security Savings Bank and Cedar Rapids Savings Bank in 1908, Montrose Hospital in 1904, and Iowa Hospital for Insane in Cherokee, Iowa in 1898. XXII - 1925.

TAYLOR, ISAAC S.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in St. Louis, Missouri, October 28, 1917. He was the chief architect at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. He became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1884 and was made a Fellow in 1889. XV - 1918.

TEIGEN, PETER
An architect and painter, died suddenly at Glenveigh Castle, County Donegal, Ireland, in the summer of 1936. He had been an associate professor of drawing in the School of Architecture at Princeton University since 1928. He was graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1915. He later studied at Harvard University and was a member of the faculty at Smith College. Exhibitions of his oil and water color paintings had been held in several major eastern cities. WWAA II - 1938-39.

THARP, NEWTON J.
An architect, died in New York City, May 12, 1909. He was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, July 28, 1867, and with his parents moved to California in 1874. He spent four years at the San Francisco School of Design and in 1896 went to Europe to study. At the time of his death, he was City Architect of San Francisco. Among the public buildings designed by him in this capacity are the Hall of Justice, the Infirmary, and a group of hospital buildings. VII - 1910.

THOMAS, DOUGLAS H., JR.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, was killed in a automobile accident in Baltimore, Maryland, June 11, 1915. He was born in Baltimore, March 5, 1872. He was graduated from Johns Hopkins University, studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, spent a year in Paris, and after travel returned to Baltimore. In Boston he formed the firm of Parker & Thomas in 1900 with J. Harleston Parker, and later with Arthur W. Rice it became Parker, Thomas & Rice. He became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1899 and was made a Fellow in 1909. XII - 1915.

THOMAS, COL. D. W.
An architect, died in Baltimore, Maryland, January 31, 1905. He designed the Baltimore Court House and other public buildings in Baltimore. V - 1905.

THOMAS, JOHN ROCHESTER
An architect, died at Westminster Park, Thousands Islands, on August 28, 1901. He was born in Rochester, New York, June 18, 1848 and settled in New York City in 1882. More than 150 churches have been erected from his designs. He designed the Seventy-first Regiment Armory, the Eighth Regiment Armory, and the old Stock Exchange. The Municipal Commission in 1896 accepted his design for the new $25 million City Hall of New York in a competition among 133 architects, but afterward the Legislature voted against the removal of the present structure. He was then commissioned to prepare the plans for the new Hall of Records, but died before the completion of that building. He was a member of the Architectural League of New York and the National Arts Club. IV - 1903.

THOMPKINS, JOHN ALMY, II
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died May 21, 1941, at his home in Forest Hills, New York. WWAA IV - 1947.

THOMPSON, GEORGE KRAMER (Photo)
An architect, died August 2, 1935, in Piermont, New York, aged seventy-five. He was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He was a member of the firm of Kimball & Thompson for many years. He retired from active service in 1932. WWAA I - 1936-37.

THOMPSON, GEORGE W.
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died February 21, 1910. He was born in Chatham, England in 1835 and came to the United States when fifteen years of age. He was a builder in Cleveland and took up the study of architecture. In 1883 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he practiced his profession until a few months before his death. The principal buildings erected by the firm of Thompson, Asmus & Norton are the Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral, the First Baptist Church in Tulane, and Duncan hotels. He was elected to membership in the Western Association of Architects in 1886, and by act of consolidation with the American Institute of Architects in 1889 became a Fellow of the Institute. VIII - 1911.

THOMSON, ANDREW GRIERSON
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Brooklyn, New York, April 2, 1911. He was born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1838 and received his early architectural training in England. Coming to this country as a young man, he served in the Supervising Architect's office of the Treasury Department and later had charge of the construction of the Post Office in New York City. For the past twenty-five years he was consulting architect to the J. L. Mott Iron Works. He was one of the founders of the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and served for several years as its secretary. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1896. IX - 1911.

THORP, J. GREENLEAF
An architect, died in Southampton, Long Island, New York, February 14, 1934, aged seventy-one. He was born in East Orange, New Jersey. After graduation from Princeton University, he engaged in architectural work in New York for several years and in the last twenty years had drawn plans for more than fifty Long Island summer homes. WWAA I - 1936-37.

TILDEN, GEORGE THOMAS
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Milton, Massachusetts, July 10, 1919. He was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1845 and studied architecture in Boston and in Paris. Among the more important works which he executed were the Milton, Massachusetts Town Hall; the Art Museum, Wellesley College; Plymouth, Massachusetts High School; and Jesup Hall, Williams College. He was made a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1874 and became a Fellow in 1889. XVI - 1919.

TILLINGHAST, MARY ELIZABETH
A stained glass designer, died December 15, 1912, in New York. She was born in New York and studied in Paris under Carolus-Duran and Henner. Since 1882 she had been established in New York and at one time assisted John LaFarge with his windows. She received a gold medal at the Chicago Exposition in 1893 and gold and bronze medals at the Charleston Exposition in 1902. Among her most important works were a stained window presented by Mrs. Russell Sage to the Home for Friendless Children, the Hutton window in Grace Church, "The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes" in the New York Historical Society Building, "Urania" in the Allegheny Observatory, and mural decorations in the Hotel Savoy. Miss Tillinghast was the first to realize the difference that the electric lighting of churches would make in the spectacular effect of window designs. X - 1913.

TILLION, PHILEMON
An architect, died February 1, 1932, in Brooklyn, New York, aged seventy- seven. A native of Cheltenham, England, he came to the United States about 1880. After practicing architecture in Brooklyn for twenty-five years, he established his office in Manhattan with his sons for partners. Among the buildings the firm designed are Manhattan Towers and in Brooklyn, the Industrial Home for the Blind, Trinity Baptist Church, and the Greenpoint Masonic Temple. XXIX - 1932.

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

TIMMERMAN, WILLIAM
An architect, died in Washington, D. C., April 10, 1935, aged forty-two. He had been associated with Kohn & Butler. In 1931 he went to Tokyo, where he was in charge of the construction of St. Luke's Medical Center. Returning to the United States in 1933, he became employed by the government and was with the Federal Housing Division as director of slum clearance in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. WWAA I - 1936-37.

TOMPKINS, CLARENCE P.
A landscape architect, died April 13, 1935, in Forest Hills, New York, aged seventy-two. He had been identified with the development of Forest Hills Gardens. WWAA I - 1936-37.

TORMEY, FRANCIS E.
An architect, died in Baltimore, Maryland, May 1, 1935, aged seventy. He had designed various Catholic churches and convent buildings and at one time was assistant building engineer of Baltimore. WWAA I - 1936-37.

TRACY, EVARTS (Photo)
An architect, died in Neuilly, France, January 31, 1922. He was born in 1869. He had been engaged in reconstruction work in France for several months. He was a graduate of Yale University and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He designed the National Armory in Washington, the Missouri State Capitol, and the Cathedral and the Post Office in Denver. XIX - 1922.

TREADWELL, PRENTISS
A decorator, died April 8, 1902. He had done work for many prominent New Yorkers. His best known decoration is that of the Knickerbocker Theater in New York. IV - 1903.

TREANOR, WILLIAM A.
An architect, died August 30, 1946, at his home in Katonah, New York, aged fifty-eight. Born in Yonkers, New York, he attended Pratt Institute and Columbia University. He was a member of the firm of Treanor & Fatio and later Treanor & Burrows. He drafted plans for private residences in Palm Beach and Long Island. WWAA IV - 1947.

TREAT, SAMUEL ATWATER
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died June 18, 1910, in Battle Creek, Michigan. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut December 29, 1839. He was graduated in 1856 from the Collegiate and Commercial Institute and immediately entered the architectural office of Sidney M. Stone at New Haven, where he remained until the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, when he enlisted. After the war he returned to Mr. Stone's office, but soon moved to Chicago. In 1872 he formed a partnership with Fritz Foltz, which continued until 1897, after which he was in business alone and devoted many years to the erection of a plant for the Western Electric Company in Hawthorne, a suburb of Chicago. Among the buildings designed by the firm of Treat & Foltz were St. Luke's Hospital, the machine works of Frazer & Chalmers, the Woolensack Fireproof Warehouse, Arizona Apartments, Tudor Apartments, and residences for C. B. Farwell, C. B. Libby, and George Armour. Mr. Treat was one of the oldest members of the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, having been elected an Associate of the Institute in 1873 and a Fellow at the time of the consolidation with the Western Association in 1889. He was twice president of the Illinois Chapter and twice president of the Chicago Architects Business Association. For nine years he was treasurer of the American Institute of Architects and at the time of his death was treasurer of the Chicago Architects Business Association. VIII - 1911.

TRIMBLE, ROBERT MAURICE (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died July 4, 1943, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, aged seventy-two. He was a member of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club. He designed schools, churches, homes, and business buildings. WWAA IV - 1947.

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

TRYON, THOMAS (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Hartford, Connecticut, July 31, 1920. He was born in Hartford in 1859 and was a pupil at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He was a member of the New York Architectural League (1882); New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (1892); and the Century Association. He was at one time associated with Arnold W. Brunner under the firm name of Brunner & Tryon. XVII - 1920.

TSUMANUMA, IWAHIKO
A.I.A. - An architect, died February 5, 1936, in Ogdensburg, New York. Of Japanese descent, he practiced in this country under the name of Thomas S. Rockrise. He designed a number of important buildings in the United States and Japan before 1922, when illness forced him to retire. He was graduated from Syracuse University and was a member of the Architectural League of New York and the Japanese Institute of Architects. WWAA II - 1938-39.

TULLGREN, HERBERT W.
An architect, died February 22, 1944, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aged fifty-four. WWAA IV - 1947.

TULLY, KIVAS
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in St. Louis, Missouri, October 17, 1915. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1890 and was a member of the St. Louis Chapter. XIV - 1917.

TUTHILL, WILLIAM BURNET (Photo)
An architect, died in New York, August 25, 1929. He was born in 1855. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1875 and was later granted an M.A. degree. He was one of the founders of the Architectural League of New York and served on the Art Commission of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. He was best known as the architect of Carnegie Hall, but designed many other well-known buildings in New York. He had lectured on architectural history and acoustics for Columbia University, the University of Cincinnati, and the New York City Board of Education. He was the author of several books, notably a text book on architectural drawing which has gone through more than fifteen editions. He was also well known in the world of music, acting for thirty-six years as secretary and manager of the New York Oratorio Society. His music library was large, and he had more recently been secretary for the Society of the Publication of American Music and of the United States Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music. XXVI - 1929.

TWYMAN, JOSEPH
An architect, painter, teacher, and worker in applied arts, died in Chicago, Illinois in 1904. He was born in Ramsgate, England, October 8, 1842. He was a pupil of Pugin, Christopher Dresser, and William Morris in London. He was a member of the executive boards of the South Park Improvement Association and the South Park Workshop Association. He was a member of the Chicago Architectural Club and the Morris Society. V - 1905.

TYRE, PHILIP SCOTT (Photo)
A.I.A. - An architect and painter, died August 25, 1937, at his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, July 14, 1881 and studied under Anshutz and Poore at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He was a member of the Union League, Philadelphia Art Club, American Federation of Arts, Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. WWAA II - 1938-39.

TYRIE, WILLIAM WALLACE
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died March 19, 1943, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, aged sixty-eight. He was a member of the firm of Long & Thorshov and designed many schools. WWAA IV - 1947.