- Carl Fehmer
Infobox Person
name = Carl Fehmer
birth_date = 1838
birth_place =Mecklenburg, Germany Carl Fehmer (
November 10 ,1838 – 1903) was a prominent Boston architect during the 19th century.Biography
Fehmer was born in Germany to Heinrich Fehmer and Maria (Zerrahn) Fehmer. His father died in Germany when he was five; the mother and children came to America in 1852 and settled in Boston.
Fehmer attended public school in Boston, and showed an early aptitude for drawing and painting. At the age of 16 he began studying architecture in the office of
George Snell , a prominent Boston architect. Fehmer remained in Snell's office for eight years before beginning his own architectural practice.For 25 years he performed all of the architectural work for the
Massachusetts General Hospital until he was forced to retire due to ill health. He designed a number of buildings for the McLean Asylum in Waverly and was appointed by GovernorOliver Ames as consulting architect when the extension to theMassachusetts State House was built.During the Civil War, Fehmer served in the militia at
Fort Independence as a member of the Fourth Battalion under Major Thomas Stevenson.Fehmer was a charter member of the Boston Society of Architects and the Saint Botolph Club.
On April 20, 1872, he married Therese Wahl.
During his long and active professional career, Fehmer designed the Shuman Corner, the Telephone Building, and numerous
Back Bay houses.Fehmer died in Boston in 1917.
References
*Eliot, Samuel Atkins, "Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State" (Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1916).
External links
* [http://www.bosarchitecture.com/architects/f/fehmer_carl.html Carl Fehmer] Photos, history, and architecture of Fehmer's extant Boston buildings
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