AMERICAN ARCHITECTS' BIOGRAPHIES:

Surnames beginning with letter Y

YORK, EDWARD PALMER
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in New York, December 30, 1928. He was born in 1865 in Wellville, New York. He studied architecture at Cornell University. In 1898 he formed the firm of York & Sawyer. This firm designed several of the largest banks and hospitals in New York, including the Rockefeller and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, and was consulting architect to the Treasury Department in Washington, D. C. from 1909 to 1913. The work of the firm also includes the United States Assay Office, Brooklyn Trust Company, Riggs National Bank in Washington, Rochester Trust Company, Lincoln National Bank in Rochester, and the Post Office, Custom House and Court Building in Honolulu. Mr. York had been looking forward with great interest to the construction by his firm of the new building for the Department of Labor in Washington, to be one of the largest buildings in the world. Among the buildings of which he had personal charge during his thirty years of independent practice in New York were a number of bank and hospital buildings, a group of law buildings for the University of Michigan, and a recently designed group of engineering buildings for Cornell. He became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1902 and a Fellow in 1926, a life member of the New York Historical Society, and a member of the St. Nicholas Society and Century and Union League clubs. He was the ninth generation of his family to live in Stonington, Connecticut, where he owned a summer residence. XXVI - 1929.

YORK, MAJOR JOHN DEVEREAUX
An architect, died October 26, 1935, in Phoenix, Arizona, aged seventy-two. He was an associate of Henry Ives Cobb of Chicago in designing the Fisheries Building at the Columbian Exposition in 1893 and for several years was connected with the New York firm of McKim, Mead & White. WWAA I - 1936-37.

YOST, JOSEPH WARREN (Photo)
An architect, died at Avalon, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1924. He was born near Clarington, Ohio in 1847 and taught school as a young man, later studying architecture. XXI - 1924.

YOUNG, JOHN
An architect, died in Alexandria, Virginia, March 19, 1933, aged seventy-five. He was for forty years prominently identified as a government architect. He had recently retired from the Supervising Architect's Office of the Treasury Department. XXX - 1933.

YOUNG, THOMAS CRANE (Photo)
F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in St. Louis, Missouri, March 2, 1934, aged seventy- six. He was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He was graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and attended the University of Heidelberg. Mr. Young was on the architectural board for the St. Louis and Trans-Mississippi Expositions. As a member of the firm of Eames & Young since 1885, he collaborated in the design of the Federal prisons at Atlanta and Leavenworth. He designed the Masonic Temple, University Club, and other prominent St. Louis buildings. WWAA I - 1936-37.

YOUNGER, JOSEPH
An architect, died in Washington, D. C., May 16, 1932. He was born in 1892. For several years he was associated with Washington architectural firms and in 1922 engaged in practice for himself. He designed several important buildings, including the Kennedy-Warren Apartments and the Sixth Presbyterian Church, for which he received an award from the Washington Board of Trade. The Architects' Advisory Council had extended high commendation for the designs above named and for that of the Blackstone Hotel. XXIX - 1932.

YOUNGS, WILLIAM HENRY WALMSLEY
An architect, died January 23, 1915, in a hospital at Stamford, Connecticut. He had been a member of the firm of Youngs & Cable in New York City and designed some of the first skyscrapers in New York. XII - 1915.