Charles Howard Walker

Charles Howard Walker (1857-1936) was an architect, designer and educator in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.^[1] He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology^[2] and was affiliated with Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts.^[3][4] With Thomas Rogers Kimball (Walker & Kimball), he worked as architect-in-chief of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, 1898.^[5]

Palace of Electricity, St. Louis World's Fair, 1903; designed by Walker & Kimball

Designed by Walker

Poster "For United America, YWCA Division for Foreign Born Women," designed by C. Howard Walker, 1919

• Mount Vernon Church, Beacon St., Boston, ca.1892
• Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska, 1898^[6]
• Bancroft Memorial Library, Hopedale, Massachusetts, ca. 1898
• Electricity building, St. Louis World's Fair, 1903^[7]
• Stony Brook Bridge, Back Bay Fens, Boston^[8]
• William Fogg Library, Eliot, Maine, 1907

References

1. ^ Boston Almanac. 1883, 1884
2. ^ http://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?type=related&kv=19845&t=people
3. ^ American Federation of Arts. American art directory, Volume 14. R.R. Bowker, 1918
4. ^ New York Times. January 6, 1907
5. ^ Brochure series of architectural illustration. Boston: Bates & Guild Co., June 1898
6. ^ http://digital.omahapubliclibrary.org/transmiss/buildings/architect3.html
7. ^ http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/1901-09-22/ed-1/seq-1/
8. ^ Sylvester Baxter. Boston park guide: including the municipal and metropolitan systems of greater Boston. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1898

Further reading

By Walker

• Architecture of the Library. In: Handbook of the new Public library in Boston. Boston: Curtis & Co., 1895.
• Theory of mouldings. 1926.

About Walker

• American Federation of Arts. American art annual. MacMillan Co., 1905.
• Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis & Company, 1915.
• William Emerson. Charles Howard Walker (1857-1936). Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 72, No. 10 (May, 1938), pp. 396-397.

External links

• WorldCat
• Google news archive. Articles about C. Howard Walker.
• Flickr. Photo of nos. 493, 495, and 497 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston; "built in 1895, and designed by noted architects Arthur H. Vinal and Charles Howard Walker"
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/22280677@N07/3283877698/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/80992738@N00/3050415353
• MIT Museum. Portrait by Emil Pollak-Ottendorf of 5 architects: William Felton Brown, Charles Howard Walker, Harry Wentworth Gardner, John Osborne Sumner, William Henry Lawrence.
• Charles Howard Walker at the archINFORM database

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Name	Walker, Charles Howard
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Date of birth	1857
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Date of death	1936
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