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Edmund B. Gilchrist
Edmund Beaman Gilchrist (March 13, 1885 - December 18, 1953) was an American architect, best remembered for his English-Cotswold and French-Norman suburban houses. Career Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended Germantown Friends School, Drexel University for a year, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1906. He apprenticed in the offices of architects Horace Trumbauer and Wilson Eyre, and launched his own firm in 1911. In the 1880s and 1890s, architects G. W. & W. D. Hewitt designed more than 100 houses in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia for developer Henry H. Houston. A generation later, Dr. George Woodward, Houston's son-in-law, hired Gilchrist, H. Louis Duhring Jr., and Robert Rodes McGoodwin to expand the planned community, building dozens of freestanding houses and attached houses grouped to look like manor houses. The Woodward houses were rental properties and, a century later, most remain so. In addition to suburban houses, Gilchrist d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linden Court Architectural Record January 1916
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