Charles A. Gunn

Charles A. Gunn was an American architect active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He designed the University of Illinois Observatory, on campus at the University of Illinois, in Urbana.^[1] He was born in 1870 in Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in architecture in 1892. He was an Assistant in Architecture at the University from 1893-1896. Later he worked in New York 1897-1903 and Pittsburgh 1903-1907. He became involved in mission work to the Philippines, South China and Hawaii after 1911 according to the Charles Alexander Gunn entry from Semi-Centennial Alumni Record of University of Illinois in 1918.

References

1. ^ University of Illinois Observatory, Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Park Service. Retrieved 12 June 2011.