Douglas Ellington

Douglas D. Ellington (26 June 1886 – 27 August 1960) was an American architect who is noted for his work in the Art Deco style.

Ellington studied architecture at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.^[1] Ellington was the first American to win the Rougevin prize.^[1] After returning from France, he worked as a professor of architecture at Columbia University and then the Carnegie Institute of Technology. During World War I, Ellington worked with the United States Navy, supervising the design of camouflage for ships. Ellington subsequently returned to Pittsburgh where he opened a private architectural practice. In 1929, he designed the S&W Cafeteria location at 60 Patton Avenue in Asheville. While living in Asheville he also designed notable buildings of the art deco era: Asheville City Hall, First Baptist Church of Asheville, and Asheville High School. Ellington died on August 27, 1960 at his self-designed and built summer home in Asheville, North Carolina.

Top of the Asheville High School rotunda, designed by Douglas Ellington in 1929.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} McDonald, Edward D.; Edward M. Hinton (1942). Drexel Institute of Technology 1891 - 1941. Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.. p. 124. ISBN 1406763748. 

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Name	Ellington, Douglas
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Date of birth	26 June 1886
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Date of death	27 August 1960
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