Architects

Born in Schuyler County, Illinois in 1838 or 1839, Jerome Bibb Legg came to St. Louis in 1864 to attend […]

Two-year-old George Edward Kessler and his financially secure parents (Clotilde and Edward Karl) immigrated in 1865 from historic Bad Frankenhausen,

William Butts Ittner was born in St. Louis in 1864, the first child of Anthony and Mary Butts Ittner. Anthony,

Edward Gordon Garden was born in Toronto, Ontario in March of 1871 and educated (1883-87) at Bishop’s College School in

William S. Eames was born in Clinton, Michigan. His parents, natives of New York State, moved to St. Louis in

In 1921, a biographer wrote: “Not by leaps and bounds, but by an orderly progression, Harry G. Clymer has reached

Today, the reputation of Herbert Caleb Chivers is derived almost entirely from one commission: his 1903 Women’s Magazine Building extravaganza built for

Preston J. Bradshaw was born in St. Louis on June 19, 1884 to grain broker Thomas J. Bradshaw and wife

Frederick Charles Bonsack was born in St. Louis County in 1859. His father, also Frederick Charles, and his mother Catherine

Thomas B. Annan was born in St. Louis.  After graduation from the city’s only public high school, he secured an