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Howard Backen's interest in architecture began when he was just five years old. He was born in Montana, but moved to rural Roseburg, Oregon when he was very young. His family sometimes visited his uncle, who was an architect, in Montana, and Backen recalls sifting through his uncle's drawings and sketches while his siblings and cousins played.
In 1897, together with Henry Bacon, they left to form Brite and Bacon Architects. [4] Brite designed The Braes at Glen Cove, New York, for the businessman Herbert L. Pratt. [5] Brite was the architect of Darlington, a 45,000 square feet house at Mahwah, New Jersey, built in 1907 for George Crocker, and now owned by Ilija Pavlovic. [6] He ...
Union Square Savings Bank in Manhattan a New York City landmark, which is now the Daryl Roth Theatre Program from the AIA Gold Medal presentation to Henry Bacon in 1923 Dupont Circle Fountain in Washington, D.C. Commodore George Hamilton Perkins monument at the New Hampshire State House commemorating George H. Perkins, a U.S. Navy officer during the American Civil War
Pages in category "20th-century American architects" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,067 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Jordan Vineyard & Winery was founded in 1972 by Tom and Sally Jordan, who first purchased land in 1972 with the dream of planting a vineyard. The Jordan chateau, which overlooks nearly 1,200 acres of hills and vineyards with three quarters of the land dedicated to natural habitat, was designed by the architecture firm Backen, Arrigoni & Ross and was completed in 1976 just before the first ...
This list of American architects includes notable architects and architecture firms with a strong connection to the United States (i.e., born in the United States, ...
In 1973, HOK established a presence in New York by acquiring Kahn & Jacobs, designers of many New York City skyscrapers. By the 1970s, the firm was operating internationally and in 1975 the firm was named as architect of the $3.5 billion King Saud University in Riyadh, at the time the single largest building project in the world. [6]
Charles Follen McKim [1] (August 24, 1847 – September 14, 1909) was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century. Along with William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White , he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the partnership McKim, Mead & White .