Thomas Podmore

Thomas Podmore was an architect from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Career

Thomas Podmore was born in England in 1859, and emigrated to the United States about 1879. He worked for a few years in New York, and then moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he joined with Albert Hamilton Kipp (1850-1906) in 1886 to form the the architecture firm Kipp & Podmore.^[1] The firm dissolved by mutual consent at the end of 1891.^[2]

Podmore died in 1948.^[3]

Principal Architectural Works

• Nesbit Hall, Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania, built in 1887—as Kipp & Podmore.^[4]
• Methodist Episcopal Church, Dallas, Pennsylvania, completed in 1889 — as Kipp & Podmore.^[5]
• Armory, Gaylord Avenue, Plymouth, Pennsylvania, built in 1891 — as Kipp & Podmore.^[6]
• St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Plymouth, Pennsylvania, built in 1893.^[7]

Gallery

• 
  Methodist Episcopal Church, Dallas, PA, completed 1889.
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  Armory, Gaylord Avenue, Plymouth, Pennsylvania, built in 1891.
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  St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Plymouth, PA, built in 1893.

References

1. ↑ Wilkes-Barre Record, December 25, 1886, page 1.
2. ↑ Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, December 26, 1891, page 4.
3. ↑ Wilkes-Barre Record, August 16, 1948
4. ↑ The Sunday Leader, September 11, 1887, page 8.
5. ↑ Wilkes-Barre Record, June 1, 1939, page 4.
6. ↑ Sunday News, June 8, 1890, page 3.
7. ↑ Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, October 18, 1893, Page 8.