Carl Frelinghuysen Gould (24 November 1873 – 4 January 1939) also spelled Carl Freylinghausen Gould, was an architect in the

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, and founder and first chair of the architecture program at the

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. As the lead designer in the firm

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, with his partner, Charles H. Bebb, Gould was responsible for many notable Pacific Northwest buildings, such as the original

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and for the campus plan of the University of Washington.

Biography

He was born in

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to Charles Judson Gould. He graduated from

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in 1898, then spent five years at the

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in Paris. After his return to New York, he apprenticed with

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, D. H. Burnham & Company, and George B. Post and Sons. In 1908 Gould moved to

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. After working briefly for other architects, Gould initiated his own practice. His early commissions were primarily residential. One of his first commissions was a dutch/gothic style residence on Federal Ave in Seattle that was the home for several decades of Teddy Roosevelt's granddaughter. Gould quickly emerged as a leader in city planning, as he campaigned for Bogue Plan (1911), which proposed a

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civic center for the city. In 1912, Gould became president of the Seattle Fine Arts Society, serving until 1916. He also began giving lectures in domestic design at the

. In 1914, Gould partnered with Seattle architect Charles H. Bebb to form Bebb and Gould, a firm that soon won the commission to plan the

campus (1915). Thereafter Bebb and Gould completed a number of campus buildings; most important was Suzzallo Library (1922–1927). From this auspicious start, the firm emerged as leading designers of institutional and other buildings in the Pacific Northwest. Their work included residences, churches, schools, hospitals, memorials, club houses, commercial structures and other buildings. The firms work was stylistically eclectic, reflecting Gould's Beaux-Arts training and the tendencies of the period. Gould founded the University of Washington program in architecture in 1914 and served as the first chair of the Architecture Department (1914–1926). Gould modeled the program after that of the Beaux-Arts as it had been adapted by American collegiate programs in architecture. Throughout Gould's tenure the program belonged to the

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supporting the

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. The half-mile-square townsite was laid out with bunkhouses, and dining and recreation halls styled after Adirondack lodges. Gould again served as President of the Seattle Fine Arts Society from 1926 to 1929 and was instrumental in its restructuring as the Art Institute of Seattle (predecessor to today's

). Gould served as President of the

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Washington State Chapter (predecessor to AIA Seattle Chapter) from 1922 to 1924. He was elected a

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in the AIA in 1926. Seattle Asian Art Museum

By the 1930s, Bebb's role in Bebb and Gould declined and the firm's work began to reflect the emergence of

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. This new direction was reflected in the design for the

building (1931–1933) (now the

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) in Volunteer Park. (The design of the front elevation reflects the influence of draftsman

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who had joined Bebb and Gould after graduating from the University of Washington.) Work slowed thereafter, as the Depression limited opportunities, although the firm designed several more University of Washington buildings in this period, and, as campus architects after 1932, supervised designs by other architects. In 1933 Gould was commissioned to design a new building to house the

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. A masterwork of early-thirties design, the new Everett Public Library opened to the public on October 3, 1934. He died on 4 January 1939.

Works

Works by Gould or by his partnership include many that survive and/or are listed on the U.S.

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(NRHP). These include: * U.S. Immigration Building, 84 Union St., Seattle, Washington (Gould,Carl F.) NRHP-listed * Weyerhaeuser Office Building, Boxcar Park, Everett, Washington (Gould,Carl F.) NRHP-listed *

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, 1026 N. Forest St., Bellingham, Washington (Gould,Carl F.) NRHP-listed *One or more properties in NRHP-listed Centralia Downtown Historic District, Roughly bounded by Center St., Burlington Northern right-of-way, Walnut st., and Pearl St., Centralia, Washington (Bebb and Gould) * Larrabee House, 405 Fieldstone Rd., Bellingham, Washington (Bebb & Gould) NRHP-listed * Olympic Hotel, 1200–1220 4th Ave., Seattle, Washington (Bebb & Gould) NRHP-listed * Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, 1304 Vandercook Way Longview WA Bebb & Gould) NRHP-listed * Times Building, 414 Olive Way, Seattle, Washington (Bebb & Gould) NRHP-listed * U.S. Marine Hospital (Seattle, Washington), 1131 14th Ave., S., Seattle, Washington (Bebb & Gould) NRHP-listed * Volunteer Park, Between E. Prospect and E. Galer Sts., and Federal and E. 15th Aves., Seattle, Washington (Bebb & Gould) NRHP-listed * Administration Building and Cavanaugh House at the

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Legacy

After Gould's unexpected death in 1939, Bebb took trusted employee John Paul Jones into the partnership and the firm was renamed Bebb and Jones. Overall, Carl F. Gould was a key figure in architecture and the arts in Seattle in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Gould's daughter, Anne Gould Hauberg continued to play a significant role in Seattle as patron of the arts today. In 1941 his daughter, Anne Westbrook Gould, married John Henry Hauberg, Jr. The family papers are archived at the

. Carl F. Gould is also the namesake of Gould Hall, which is the headquarters of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.

References

External links

AIA Seattle Honors Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gould, Carl F. 1873 births 1939 deaths 20th-century American architects Fellows of the American Institute of Architects Architects from Seattle Harvard University alumni University of Washington faculty Architects from New York City

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