Theodore Link
Theodore C. Link, FAIA, (March 17, 1850 - November 12, 1923) was a German-American architect.
Born in Germany, Link trained in engineering at the University of Heidelberg and, later, at the Ecole Centrale in Paris before emigrating to the United States. He moved to St. Louis in 1873 to work for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad company. In 1875, St. Louis Surveyor Julius Pitzman recommended him to the job of superintendent of public parks for St. Louis, and after a four-year interim as a German-language newspaper publisher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Link returned to St. Louis as one of the architects for the 1904 World's Fair.
Death
Link died in Baton Rouge while working on the Louisiana State University. He was interred at Bellefontaine Cemetery. In 1995 was awarded a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
Work
Among his list of 100+ buildings include:
- 1889 Monticello Seminary (now Lewis and Clark Community College), Godfrey, Illinois
- 1891 gates and several houses for two of St. Louis's private places, Westmoreland Place and Portland Place
- 1894 St. Louis Union Station, modeled on the fortifications of Carcassonne, with architect Edward Cameron
- 1899 Second Presbyterian Church, 5401 Westminster Place
- 1901 St. John’s United Methodist Church, 5000 Washington Place
- 1903 Mississippi State Capitol, Jackson, Mississippi
- 1904 Palace of Mines and Metallurgy at the 1904 World's Fair (razed)
- 1904 Reid Hall and campus master plan for Washington and Lee University[1]
- 1910 Roberts Shoe (International Shoe) Company Building, St. Louis, with ornament influenced by Louis Sullivan
- 1919-1923, master plan and nine buildings for the Louisiana State University, including the Memorial Tower, with Wilbur Tyson Trueblood
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References
- ^ Warren, Mame. Come Cheer for Washington and Lee. Washington & Lee University Press (Meridian Printing), 1998, p. 12.
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