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St. Joseph City Hall
St. Joseph City Hall is a historic Seat of local government, city hall located at St. Joseph, Missouri. It was designed by the architectural firm Eckel & Aldrich and built in 1926–1927. It is a three-story, stone and concrete building in the Renaissance Revival architecture, Italian Renaissance Revival style. It features a concrete baluster, balustraded loggia on the second level, engaged columns, arched openings, and a red tile hipped roof. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. References City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Renaissance Revival architecture in Missouri Government buildings completed in 1927 Buildings and structures in St. Joseph, Missouri, City Hall National Register of Historic Places in Buchanan County, Missouri {{BuchananCountyMO-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckel & Aldrich
Edmond J. Eckel (June 22, 1845 – December 12, 1934) was an architect in practice in St. Joseph, Missouri, from 1872 until his death in 1934. In 1880 he was the founder of Eckel & Mann, later Eckel & Aldrich and Brunner & Brunner, which was the oldest architectural firm in Missouri prior to its eventual dissolution in 1999. Life and career Edmond Jacques Eckel was born June 22, 1845, in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, to Jacques Eckel, a manufacturer, and Louise Elizabeth Caroline (Schweighaeuser) Eckel. He was educated at what is now the Jean Sturm Gymnasium and studied architecture under the city architect of Strasbourg."Eckel, Edmond Jacques" in The National Cyclopedia of American Biography' 41 (New York: James T. White & Company, 1956): 324-325. In 1863 he moved to Paris to continue his education and studied in the Beaux-Arts ateliers of Alexis Paccard and Léon Vaudoyer. He was admitted to the second, or junior, class of the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in 1866 but left witho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |