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Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897and 1947Transcribed from the American Art Annual by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Director,Maine Historic Preservation Commission.Between 1897 and 1947 the American Art Annual and its successor volume Who's Who in American Artincluded brief obituaries of prominent American artists, sculptors, and architects. During this fifty-yearperiod, the lives of more than twelve-hundred architects were summarized in anywhere from a few lines toseveral paragraphs.Recognizing the reference value of this information, I have carefully made verbatim transcriptions of thesebiographical notices, substituting full wording for abbreviations to provide for easier reading. After eachentry, I have cited the volume in which the notice appeared and its date.The word "photo" after an architect's name indicates that a picture and copy negative of that individual ison file at the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. While the Art Annual and Who's Who contain fewphotographs of the architects, the Commission has gathered these from many sources and is pleased tomake them available to researchers.The full text of these biographies are ordered alphabetically by surname: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N OPQRSTUVWYZFor further information, please contact:Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., DirectorMaine Historic Preservation Commission55 Capitol Street, 65 State House StationAugusta, Maine 04333-0065Telephone: 207/287-2132FAX: 207/287-2335E-Mail: sheshet@state.me.usAMERICAN ARCHITECTS' BIOGRAPHIES:ABELL, W. W.A.I.A. - An architect, died at Elgin, Illinois, January 23, 1916. Admitted to the American Institute ofArchitects in 1901.XIII - 1916.ADAMS, HAROLD FRANCISA.I.A. - An architect, died January 30, 1934, at Sayville, Long Island, New York, where he had beenpracticing for many years. He was born in Tansborough, New Jersey, sixty- five years ago, and was amember of the American Institute of Architects, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of theMasons.WWAAI - 1936- 37.

ADELSOHN, EDWARD M.An architect, died May 9, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York. He was born in 1890. He was the designer of thenew wing of the Brooklyn Hebrew Maternity Hospital, and of a new group of apartment houses at JacksonHeights. He received his professional training at Cooper Union.XXVII - 1930.ADLER, DANKMAR (Photo)F.A.I.A - An architect, died in Chicago, April 16, 1900. Born in Langsfield, Saxe-Weimar, July 3, 1844;came to this country and studied architecture at Detroit and Chicago. He designed the ChicagoAuditorium, the Stock Exchange and many public buildings through the West. He was a member of theNew York Architectural League.III - 1900.ADLER, RUDOLPH S.A.I.A. - An architect, died January 19, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, aged fifty- six. Firm of Shutze, Armistead& Adler.WWAA IV - 1940- 47.AGNE, JR., JACOBF.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Utica, New York, April 17, 1918. He was born in Utica in 1859. In 1892 hewas a made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.XVI - 1919.AHLSCHLAGER, FREDERICKF.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Chicago, Illinois, February 28, 1905. He was born at Mokena, Will County,Illinois, March 24, 1858; traveled extensively in the United States and in South American, completed anengineering course at University of Illinois, Champaign, in 1876, and commenced work that year in theoffice of Mr. Picunard in New Orleans. In 1880 he commenced business for himself in Chicago. Hedesigned many churches, residences and warehouses in Chicago. He was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Institute of Architects in 1889, and at the time of his death was Vice- President of the ChicagoArchitects' Business Association.V - 1905.AIKEN, WILLIAM MARTINF.A.I.A. - An architect, died in New York City, December 7, 1908. He was born in Charleston, SouthCarolina, April 1, 1855; he received his early education in the private schools of that city; attendedUniversity of the South 1872- 74; Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1877- 79. He was in the office ofH. H. Richardson 1880- 82, William R. Emerson 1882- 84, and practiced in Cincinnati 1886- 1895. AsSupervising Architect of the Treasury, Washington, D. C., 1895- 1897, he designed the GovernmentBuildings for the expositions at Atlanta, Nashville, and Omaha, the U. S. Mint at Denver, and numerouspost offices, court houses, and custom houses. While Consulting Architect for the Borough of Manhattan,New York City, 1901- 02, he remodeled the interior of the City Hall and of the County Court House.Among his more recent works are the Roper Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Twentythird Street Public Baths in the City of New York, in which latter work he was associated with Mr. ArnoldW. Brunner. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1889; was a member of theNew York Chapter, of the Architectural League of New York, and the Century Association. Hecollaborated with Russell Sturgis in compiling the Dictionary of Architects.VII - 1910.ALBRO, LOUIS COLTA.I.A. - An architect, died in New York City, March 1, 1924. He was born in Paris in 1876, and studiedarchitecture under Stanford White, and later became a member of the firm of McKim, Mead and White. In1921 he was made a member of the American Institute of Architects.XXI - 1924.

ALDEN, FRANK E. (Photo)An architect, died September 15, 1908, at his summer residence at Edgartown, Massachusetts, agedforty- nine years. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the time of hisdeath he was a member of the firm of Alden & Harlow of Pittsburgh, architects of the Carnegie InstituteBuilding, and of most of the large office buildings in that city. He was a member of the ArchitecturalLeague of New York.VII - 1910.ALDERMAN, GEORGE P. B.An architect, died November 3, 1942, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, aged eighty.WWAA IV - 1940- 47.ALDRICH, CHESTER HOLMESF.A.I.A. - An architect, died December 26, 1940, in Rome, Italy, aged sixty- nine. Born Providence, RhodeIsland. New York firm of Delano & Aldrich. Director, American Academy in Rome, 1935- 40.WWAA IV - 1940- 47.ALEXANDER, WINTHROPAn architect, died February 6, 1941, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, aged seventy- nine. Born Boston,Massachusetts; educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.WWAA IV - 1940- 47.ALLEN, AUSTINA.I.A. - An architect, died at Joplin, Missouri, March 1, 1917. He was born in Philadelphia, August 8,1880, and moved to Joplin at the age of ten. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with theClass in Architecture of 1902. He was prominent in athletics and represented the University ofPennsylvania at the English games held during the coronation of King Edward VII. Later he spent sometime in travel and study in Europe. Mr. Allen designed many of the prominent buildings in Joplin. He waselected a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1916.XIV - 1917.ALLEN, FRANK P.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 16, 1934. He was seventy- seven years old,one of the oldest practicing architects in the state, and a partner in the firm of Frank P. Allen and Son. Hewas a member of the American Institute of Architects and Michigan Society of Architects.WWAA I - 1936- 37.ALLEN, FRANCIS R. (Photo)A.I.A. - An architect, died in Boston, Massachusetts, November 7, 1931. He was born in Boston in 1844.He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, and later receivedan LL.D. from Amherst and an honorary M.A. from Williams. His firm of Allen & Collins designed eightbuildings at Williams College, twelve at Vassar, Union Theological Seminary's group in New York, andthat of Andover Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a member of the AmericanInstitute of Architects, Boston Society of Colonial Wars, and Society of Mayflower Descendants.XXVIII - 1931.ALLEN, FRANK S.An architect, died in Pasedena, California, August 26, 1930. He was born in 1860. In addition to hispractice of architecture, he was known as an Egyptologist.XXVII - 1930.ALLEN, JEROME RIPLEYAn architect, died December 20, 1928, in New Rochelle, New York. He was bornÏin Greenfield,Massachusetts, in 1871. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia

University. He designed the Architects Building of New York and science laboratory at Vassar College.He was of the firm of Ewing and Allen. During the World War period he was architect for the Bureau ofYards and Docks of the Navy Department, designing and supervising the construction of barracks andcantonments in Brooklyn, Pelham Bay, Ione Island and Lake Denmark, New Jersey, hospitals atPhiladelphia and League Island, industrial village at Muscle Shoals, and workmen's camps at Toledo andCincinnati. He belonged to the Williams and University Clubs and Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.XXVI - 1929.ALLEN, JOHN M.F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in Marion, Massachusetts, February 13, 1912. He was born in that city June24, 1842. His architectural training was begun in the office of Ware & Van Brunt of Boston. He waselected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1879 and a Fellow in 1889.X - 1913.ALSCHULER, ALFRED S.A.I.A. - An architect, died November 6, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois, aged sixty- four.WWAA IV - 1949- 47.ALSTON, JOHN M.F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at his home in Pittsburgh, April 17, 1910, aged eighty-seven. He was born inScotland; went to Pittsburgh as a boy and received elementary schooling there. He was an apprentice inthe stone cutting trade, and studied architecture and drafting with the aid of J. W. Kerr, the first architectof Pittsburgh. He was a charter member of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Institute of Architects,and was elected a Fellow of the Institute in 1891.VIII - 1911.ANDERSON, GEORGEA.I.A. - An architect, died in Cincinnati, October 4, 1916. He was born in 1869, the son of Larz Anderson.He was educated at Columbia University, New York City, and later at the Ecole des Beaux- Arts at Paris.Upon his return to the United States he entered the office of Samuel Hannaford and Sons, of Cincinnati,later associating himself with A. O. Elzner under the firm name of Elzner and Anderson, the partnershipbeing still in existence at the time of his death. At that time he was serving as president of the CincinnatiChapter of the American Institute of Architects, of which he became a member in 1899.XIV - 1917.ANDERSON, PIERCEAn architect, died in Chicago, in February, 1924. He was born in 1870.XXI - 1924.ANDREWS, ROBERT DAYF.A.I.A. - An architect, died January, 1929. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, May 5, 1857. Hestudied in the Architectural Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later in Paris,becoming one of a group whose comradery has endured through the years. His work included thebuildings of Colorado College, Colorado Springs; the new wings of the Massachusetts State House, andthe restoration of the State House at Hartford, both of the latter having been designed by CharlesBulfinch. His ability as a draughtsman was shown by his sketches in the first Boston Architectural SketchBook, and he was also an excellent watercolorist. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects,and of the Boston Society of Architects, one of the originators of the Boston Architectural Club, and acharter and later honorary member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, as a master craftsmanarchitect.XXVI - 1929.ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM T. L.A painter and architect of Nutley, New Jersey, died June 23, 1934. He was born in Belfast, Ireland,