Charles Klauder

Charles Klauder
Born	Charles Zeller Klauder February 9, 1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	October 30, 1938(1938-10-30) (aged 66) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	School of Industrial Art (Philadelphia)
Occupation	Architect
Practice	Wilson Brothers & Company Cope and Stewardson Day & Brother Day and Klauder
Buildings	See below
Projects	Academic buildings
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Charles Zeller Klauder (February 9, 1872 – October 30, 1938) was an American architect best known for his work on university buildings and campus designs, especially his Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, the first educational skyscraper.

Biography

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Klauder was the son of Louis and Anna Koehler Klauder, who had immigrated to Philadelphia from Germany. He studied architecture at the School of Industrial Art at the Pennsylvania Museum. At age 15, he entered the office of Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr. Beginning in 1893 he worked for prominent Philadelphia architectural firms, including Wilson Brothers & Company, Cope & Stewardson, and Horace Trumbauer. In 1900, Klauder became chief draughtsman at Day & Brother, which led to the 1911 partnership with Frank Miles Day, and the firm's renaming as Day & Klauder. Klauder continued the firm after Day's 1918 death, but did not rename it until 1927.

Klauder's commissions include extensive work on the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania, Penn State University, Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, the University of Colorado Boulder, and Cornell University. At Penn he designed the third Franklin Field, Hutchinson Gymnasium, the Coxe and Sharpe Wings of the University Museum, alterations to Weightman Hall and the Palestra. Several of his landmark Neo-Gothic buildings at Pitt are the Cathedral of Learning, Heinz Memorial Chapel and the Stephen Foster Memorial. The Cathedral of Learning, upon its completion, was the tallest educational building in the world, and today it ranks behind only a tower at Moscow University. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Marks Scout Resource Center at 22nd and Winter Streets in Philadelphia was built in 1929. Klauder designed the building in the Beaux Arts style.^[1]

For his lifelong architectural work, Klauder has received the Gold Medal, Architectural League, N.Y. 1921; Grand Prix Pan American Congress of Architects, 1927; Architectural Medal, Olympic Games, 1928. Klauder was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. In 1938 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.

Klauder died aged 66 on October 30, 1938.

Architectural Work (Partial listing)

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  Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh
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  Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburgh
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  Holder Hall, Princeton University (1909), Day & Brother, architects.
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  Luther Tower, Concordia Seminary
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  Marks Scout Resource Center, Philadelphia
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  The Palestra, University of Pennsylvania
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  Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
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  Stephen Foster Memorial, University of Pittsburgh
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  War Memorial, Cornell University

Bibliography

• Klauder, Charles Z.; Wise, Herbert C. (1929). College Architecture in America. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ASIN B002R1JZJ2. 

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References

• Alberts, Robert C. (1987). Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0822962359. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charles Klauder.

• Charles Z. Klauder Collection at the Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives