| Birth: | Dec. 28, 1868
Frankford
Philadelphia County
Pennsylvania, USA | | Death: | Sep. 18, 1938 | 
Architect. He was the architect who designed the lavish, ornate, palatial mansions that reflected the "conspicuous consumption" of America's "Gilded Age." After an apprenticeship Trumbauer opened his own firm in 1890. He designed suburban residences for wealthy Philadelphia families like those of Peter A.B. Widener and Edward Stotesbury, as well as town houses in Philadelphia and New York, and mansions like Edward J. Berwind's "The Elms" in Newport, Rhode Island. He also designed commercial buildings, churches, and clubs. He adapted Renaissance, Gothic, and ancient Greek designs in his buildings. His major works include the Harry Elkins Widener Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Free Library of Philadelphia and, with C. Clark Zantzinger and Charles Borie, the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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West Laurel Hill Cemetery
Bala Cynwyd
Montgomery County
Pennsylvania, USA |
Created by: rjschatz
Record added: Jul 17, 2005
Find A Grave Memorial# 11367053 |
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