Mihran Mesrobian

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Mihran Mesrobian
Born	1889 Turkey
Died	1975
Nationality	Armenian / American

Buildings	Carlton Hotel (now The St. Regis Washington, D.C.), 1926 Hay-Adams Hotel, 1927 Wardman Tower (now Wardman Park Marriott Hotel), 1928 Calvert Manor, 1948

Mihran Mesrobian (1889–1975) was a Turkish-born Armenian who immigrated to the United States and became a prominent architect in the Washington, D.C. area.

Career

Mesrobian studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Istanbul^[1] before immigrating to the United States in 1921. In 1924, he became the primary in-house architect for legendary Washington developer Harry Wardman. After Wardman declared bankruptcy in 1930, Mesrobian established his own practice, which produced a variety of residential and commercial work over the ensuing quarter century.^[2]

Selected works

The Carlton Hotel (now The St. Regis Washington, D.C.), 1926
Hay-Adams Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1927
Wardman Tower (now a wing of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel), 1928
Dupont Circle Building, Washington, D.C., 1931
Sedgwick Gardens, Washington, D.C., 1931
Glebe Center, Arlington, Virginia, 1940
Wakefield Manor, Arlington, Virginia, 1943
Calvert Manor, Arlington, Virginia, 1948
Lee Gardens North, Arlington, Virginia, 1949-1950

References

↑ http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/84000869.pdf
↑ AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C., G. Martin Moeller, Jr., The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, p.154

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Persondata
Name	Mesrobian, Mihran
Alternative names
Short description	American architect
Date of birth	1889
Place of birth	Turkey
Date of death	1975
Place of death

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