Charles Howard Walker
Charles Howard Walker (1857-1936) was an architect, designer and educator in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1] He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[2] and was affiliated with Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts.[3][4] With Thomas Rogers Kimball (Walker & Kimball), he worked as architect-in-chief of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, 1898.[5]
Palace of Electricity, St. Louis World's Fair, 1903; designed by Walker & Kimball
Designed by Walker
Poster "For United America, YWCA Division for Foreign Born Women," designed by C. Howard Walker, 1919
- Mount Vernon Church, Beacon St., Boston, ca.1892
- Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska, 1898[6]
- Bancroft Memorial Library, Hopedale, Massachusetts, ca. 1898
- Electricity building, St. Louis World's Fair, 1903[7]
- Stony Brook Bridge, Back Bay Fens, Boston[8]
- William Fogg Library, Eliot, Maine, 1907
References
- ↑ Boston Almanac. 1883, 1884
- ↑ MIT Museum
- ↑ American Federation of Arts. American art directory, Volume 14. R.R. Bowker, 1918
- ↑ New York Times. January 6, 1907
- ↑ Brochure series of architectural illustration. Boston: Bates & Guild Co., June 1898
- ↑ Omaha Public Library Archived July 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Library of Congress
- ↑ Sylvester Baxter. Boston park guide: including the municipal and metropolitan systems of greater Boston. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1898
Further reading
By Walker
- Architecture of the Library. In: Handbook of the new Public library in Boston. Boston: Curtis & Co., 1895.
- Theory of mouldings. 1926.
About Walker
- American Federation of Arts. American art annual. MacMillan Co., 1905.
- Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis & Company, 1915.
- William Emerson. Charles Howard Walker (1857-1936). Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 72, No. 10 (May, 1938), pp. 396–397.
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- Flickr. Photo of nos. 493, 495, and 497 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston; "built in 1895, and designed by noted architects Arthur H. Vinal and Charles Howard Walker"
- Flickr. Bancroft Memorial Librar y in Hopedale, Massachusetts
- MIT Museum. Portrait by Emil Pollak-Ottendorf of 5 architects: William Felton Brown, Charles Howard Walker, Harry Wentworth Gardner, John Osborne Sumner, William Henry Lawrence.
- Charles Howard Walker at the archINFORM database.
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