Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison

Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison (1872–1938) was a U.S. architect. He was born in New York City in 1872 and died in New York in 1938.

Murchison graduated from Columbia University in 1894 and from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, in 1900. Two years later, he opened an office in New York where his first major commissions were for railroad stations for the Pennsylvania Railroad company. Among the stations he designed are the Delaware Lackawanna Station, Hoboken, NJ; both the Lackawanna Terminal and the Lehigh Terminal, Buffalo, NY, and Pennsylvania Station, Baltimore, MD. ^[1]

He also designed:

New Union Station, Jacksonville, FL.
Havana Central Railroad Station
Lackawanna Station, Scranton, PA (now Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel)
Johnstown, PA, Station- Johnstown (Amtrak station)
LIRR Station, Jamaica, NY.
US Marine Hospital, Staten Island, NY
The original Dunes Club, Narragansett, RI. (Only the gatehouse remains after the 1938 hurricane.)
Sands Point Bath Club, East Egg, LI (destroyed by fire in 1986)
West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, NY
New Colonial Hotel, Nassau
First National Bank Building, Hoboken, NJ
The Murchison Building, Wilmington, NC
Co-op Apartments, 39 E. 79th St., NY.
Beaux Arts Apartments, 310 E. 44th St., NY
The Tully House (Residence), Mill Neck, NY
Luola Chapel, built at Orton Plantation in Brunswick, NC, in memory of his sister who died in 1916. He also added wings to the main house.
Summer Residences, Narragansett, RI
Primelles Building, Havana, Cuba (American Architect. Vol. 119, Part 1)

In New York, he was well known as one of the founders of the Beaux Arts Balls, elaborate costume parties benefiting architects who had fallen on hard times. He also was a founder of the Mendelsohn Glee Club. He lived in the Beaux Arts Apartments, which he designed, at 310 E. 44th St.^[2]

Murchison died suddenly, at 11:45 p.m. on Dec. 15, 1938, "as he was emerging from the I.R.T. station in Grand Central Terminal," the New York Times reported.^[2]

At the time of his death, he had started work on a new Dunes Club to replace the one destroyed a few months earlier. He was survived by his widow, Aurelie de Mauriac Murchison and two daughters, Mrs. Hays Browning and Mrs. Edoard deWardener.

Buildings

Name	Location	Date	Built for	Current use
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Station	Scranton, Pennsylvania	1908	Lackawanna Railroad	Hotel
Beaux Arts Apartments	310 E. 44th St., New York	1929-1930	Apartments
U.S. Marine Hospital	Staten Island, NY
Havana Central railway station	Havana, Cuba	1912	Congress of Cuba	Railroad station
Munson Steamship Lines Building^[3]	1 Wall Street Court, New York City	1906	Munson Steamship Company	Co-op (converted in 2003)
Train station	Johnstown, Pennsylvania	1916
Pennsylvania Station^[4]	Baltimore, Maryland	1911	Pennsylvania Railroad

Sources

^ Dorsey, John and James D Dilts, ‘’A Guide to Baltimore Architecture’’, Tidewater Publishers, Centerville, Maryland, 1981 p 281-282
^ ^a ^b http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-09-25/news/bs-md-backstory-murchison25-20110925_1_architect-terminals-baltimore-s-penn-station/2
^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3601/is_35_52/ai_n16132618/
^ Dorsey, John and James D Dilts, ‘’A Guide to Baltimore Architecture’’, Tidewater Publishers, Centerville, Maryland, 1981 p 178-179

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Name	Murchison, Kenneth Mackenzie
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Date of birth	1872
Place of birth	New York City
Date of death	1938
Place of death	Grand Central Station, New York City