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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

The second annual meeting of the Missouri Chapter of the American Institute of Architects was held at the Mercantile Club

James Hallowell Lynch  was a St. Louis architect who practiced as J. Hal. Lynch.  Lynch’s letterhead listed his specialties as

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, John Lawrence Mauran entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1885 as a student of

The son of a successful St. Louis builder, Charles Kirkpatrick Ramsey studied engineering at Washington University before gaining practical experience

Louis Clemens Spiering was born in St. Louis in 1874, into a cultivated German-American family. His maternal grandfather was Charles

William Albert Swasey was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1863 or 1864 (contemporary sources differ) while his parents (natives of