George Archer (1848–1920) was an American architect. A native of

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, and

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and a graduate of

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, he designed several churches, banks, and other buildings in the Mid-Atlantic states of the U.S.

Works

Harford National Bank Harford National Bank is a historic bank building located at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. It is a one-story, with day-light basement built in a modified Richardson Romanesque style of glazed red brick and rusticated brownstone. It was des ...

Bel Air, Maryland The town of Bel Air is the county seat of Harford County, Maryland. According to the 2020 United States census, the population of the town was 10,661. History Bel Air's identity has gone through several incarnations since 1780. Aquilla Scott, w ...

, the

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Harford County, Maryland Harford County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 260,924. Its county seat is Bel Air. Harford County is included in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is al ...

, northeast of Baltimore. * Walters Bath No. 2 on the 900 block of Washington Boulevard, in the southwest area of

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in the Pigtown / Washington Village neighborhood. * Two private homes in

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, Maryland on the west side of suburban

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. * Buildings at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, on North Charles Street, (later renamed the

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) * Graham-Hughes House, his 1888 landmark residence on the southwest corner of North Charles and West Madison Streets, facing Washington Place and the famous

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in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood of central

References

1848 births 1920 deaths Architects from Maryland Princeton University alumni Archer family of Maryland {{US-architect-stub