A. E. Doyle
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Albert Ernest Doyle (1877-1928) was a prolific architect in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. He is most often credited for his works as A.E. Doyle.
Doyle, born in Santa Cruz, California, moved with his family to Portland, Oregon where he would ultimately establish his practice. He attended Columbia University in 1903, after an apprenticeship with the firm of Whidden and Lewis. While at Columbia, he worked in the office of Henry Bacon.
After returning to Portland, he and partner William B. Patterson, established a firm. Doyle and Patterson, under which many commissions followed. The firm employed a later, well-known architect, Pietro Belluschi. Additionally, the firm's revival and Italianate styles set the tone for other commercial buildings in Portland, especially in the firm's use of glazed terra-cotta. A series of residential cabins along the Oregon Coast and Washington coast inspired a regional style emulated in the 1930s.
Doyle died in Portland in 1928.
[edit] Notable buildings
- Meier & Frank Building (1st Doyle & Patterson commission)
- United States National Bank
- Benson Hotel
- Public Services Building
- Pacific Building
- Multnomah County Central Library
- Reed College campus
- Multnomah Falls Lodge
- Civic Stadium (now PGE Park)
- Corvallis Public Library
[edit] Further reading
- Bart King, An Architectural Guidebook to Portland. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith Publishing, 2001.
- Lena Lenceck & Gideon Bosker, Frozen Music, a history of Portland Architecture. Oregon Historical Society, 1985.
