Austin W. Lord
| Austin W. Lord | |
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| Born |
June 27, 1860 Rolling Stone, Minnesota |
| Died | January 19, 1922 (aged 61) Silvermine (Wilton), Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings |
William A. Clark House Edward S. Harkness House Masonic Temple, Brooklyn |
| Projects | Administration Buildings, Isthmian Canal Commission, Panama |
Austin Willard Lord FAIA (27 June 1860 – 19 January 1922) was an American architect and painter. He was a partner in the firm of Lord & Hewlett, best known for their work on the design of the former William A. Clark House on Fifth Avenue in New York.
Lord was born in Rolling Stone, Minnesota, the son of Orville Morrell Lord (1826–1906), one of the first settlers in the area. After receiving his initial training at the Minnesota State Normal School at Winona and in architects’ offices in Minnesota, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884. In 1887 he married Margaret Gage (or Gaige) of Winona, and the following year he traveled alone to Europe on a Rotch Traveling Scholarship. He spent the 1889–90 academic year studying in the ateliers of Honoré Daumet and Charles Girault in Paris, after which he visited Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Italy.
On his return to the United States in 1890, Lord joined the firm of McKim, Mead, and White, where he worked on such projects as the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Metropolitan Club, and buildings at Columbia University. There he met James Monroe Hewlett, with whom he formed a partnership which was to endure until Lord’s death in 1922. Among the architects who worked at the firm were Washington Hull (1895–1909), Electus D. Litchfield (1901–08) and Hugh Tallant (who had been a partner with Henry Beaumont Herts since 1897 before joined Lord and Hewlett in 1911). During various times the firm was also known as "Lord, Hewlett and Hull" or (more infrequently) "Lord, Hewlett and Tallant."
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