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Horace Trumbauer (December 28, 1868 - November 18th,1938) was a prominent architect of the gilded age. Known predominantly for designing residential manors for the wealthy, later in his career he also designed hotels, office buildings, and part of the campus of Duke University. His style of know for including period styles. December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ...
1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years), with 43 remaining. ...
1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ...
The Gilded Age in American history refers to the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era from 1865 to 1901, which saw unprecedented economic, territorial, industrial, and population expansion. ...
Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, US. The school, which officially became Duke University in 1924, traces its institutional roots to 1838. ...
He began his career as an apprentice to G. W. and W. D. Hewitt for six years. He opened his architectural office in 1890 and did some work for for developers Wendell and Smith designing homes for middle-class planned communities including the Overbrook Farms development. In 1903, he married Sara Thomson Williams and became a stepfather to Agnes Helena. Architectural Record published his work in 1904. He had a number of commisions until the Great Depression. He died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1938. Overbrook Farms is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. ...
Architectural Record is an American monthly magazine dedicated to architecture and interior design, published by McGraw-Hill Construction in New York City. ...
Buildings
- Adelphia Hotel, Philadelphia PA 1914
- Bankers' Trust Office Building, Philadelphia PA 1922
- Beneficial Savings Fund Society building, Philadelphia PA 1916
- Ben Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia PA 1925
- Chelten House, Elkins Park PA 1896 1909
- Duke University Chapel, Durham, NC
- The Elms, Newport, RI
- Elkins Memorial YMCA, Philadelphia PA
- El Mirasol Palm Beach, Florida
- Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA
- Georgian Terrace (now Temple University Tyler School of Fine Arts, Elkins Park PA 1905
- Grey Towers Castle, Glenside, PA 1892
- Irvine Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA
- James B. Duke House, New York, NY
- Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia PA; Curtis Clinic Building 1931, Jefferson Medical College Building 1929
- Jenkintown Train Station, Jenkintown, PA
- Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA
- Land Title Building, Philadelphia, PA 1902
- Le Chateau Hotel, Philadelphia, PA 1928
- Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, PA
- Music Pavilion at Willlow Grove Amusement Park 1895
- Miramar Newport RI 1914
- New York Post building, New York NY 1926
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
- Public Ledger Building, Philadelphia, PA 1923
- Saint James Apartments, Philadelphia, PA 1901
- The Racquet Club, Philadelphia, PA 1912
- Union League Annex, Philadelphia, PA 1909
- WesBanco Fairmont, WV 1911
- Whitemarsh Hall, Springfield, PA 1916
- Widener Building, Philadelphia, PA 1914
- Widener Library, Harvard University Cambridge, MA
- Widener Memorial Training School for Crippled Children, Philadelphia, PA
The Elms is a large mansion, or summer cottage, located in Newport, Rhode Island. ...
The Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
Temple University is a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
Grey Towers Castle is a building on the campus of Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. ...
Miramar, loosely translated from Spanish, means sea-view. As a toponym, Miramar may refer to any of the following geographical locations: Argentina Miramar, Buenos Aires – a city in Buenos Aires province. ...
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest[citation needed] newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ...
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphias Fairmount Park, was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. ...
Whitemarsh Hall was an estate located in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania and owned by banking executive Edward T. Stotesbury and his wife, Eva. ...
Old picture of the Widener Library. ...
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...
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