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Arthur Ingersoll Meigs

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Arthur Ingersoll Meigs

Birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
9 Jun 1956 (aged 73)
Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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NY Times Obit, June 11, 1956
ARTHUR I. MEIGS, 65, RETIRED ARCHITECT
Special to The New York Times
PHILADELPHIA, June 10 -- Arthur Ingersoll Meigs of nearby Radnor, a retired architect, died yesterday. His age was 65.

From 1906 until his retirement in 1940, Mr. Meigs was a partner in Mellor & Meigs here. He designed a number of fine homes in the Philadelphia area, and also such buildings as Goodheart Hall at Bryn Mawr College, the science laboratory at Haverford College, the Chart Club at Princeton University and the bird house in the Philadelphia Zoological Garden.

Mr. Meigs received a medal from the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1922 and the gold medal of the New York Architects League in 1925.

Mr. Meigs was a graduate of the Penn Charter School and Princeton University, class of '03. In World War I he served as an artillery captain. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

His widow, the former Harriet Geyelin survives.
NY Times Obit, June 11, 1956
ARTHUR I. MEIGS, 65, RETIRED ARCHITECT
Special to The New York Times
PHILADELPHIA, June 10 -- Arthur Ingersoll Meigs of nearby Radnor, a retired architect, died yesterday. His age was 65.

From 1906 until his retirement in 1940, Mr. Meigs was a partner in Mellor & Meigs here. He designed a number of fine homes in the Philadelphia area, and also such buildings as Goodheart Hall at Bryn Mawr College, the science laboratory at Haverford College, the Chart Club at Princeton University and the bird house in the Philadelphia Zoological Garden.

Mr. Meigs received a medal from the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1922 and the gold medal of the New York Architects League in 1925.

Mr. Meigs was a graduate of the Penn Charter School and Princeton University, class of '03. In World War I he served as an artillery captain. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

His widow, the former Harriet Geyelin survives.


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