Howard Montalbert Reynolds, Sr. (June 17, 1885 - October 21, 1943) was an American

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

practicing in

Orlando, Florida Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, acco ...

in the 1920s. He designed gracefully proportioned, notable public buildings in the prevailing fashionable styles of the 1920s, including

Mediterranean Revival Mediterranean Revival is an architectural style introduced in the United States, Canada, and certain other countries in the 19th century. It incorporated references from Spanish Renaissance, Spanish Colonial, Italian Renaissance, French Colonial ...

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

, Spanish Colonial,

Egyptian Revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat ...

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

and

Art Moderne Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design ...

. Among Reynolds' best known works are a number of educational buildings still in use as schools or community centers in Central Florida. Many of Reynolds' suave, stylish buildings have been designated as Orlando Historic Landmarks. Reynolds' was among a small but active group of ten architectural firms listed in the Orlando phone directory in 1926, the others including:

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, Fred E. Field,

David Hyer David Burns Hyer (May 21, 1875 – December 11, 1942) was an American architect who practiced in Charleston, South Carolina and Orlando, Florida during the first half of the twentieth century, designing civic buildings in the Neoclassical Reviv ...

, Murry S. King, George E. Krug, Ryan and Roberts (

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and

Isabel Roberts Isabel Roberts (March 1871 – December 27, 1955) was a Prairie School figure, member of the architectural design team in the Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright and partner with Ida Annah Ryan in the Orlando, Florida architecture firm, "R ...

) and Percy P. Turner. This group of architects felt it important to create a distinctive regional architecture, an effort which they described in the Florida journal ''The Florida Circle'' in 1924 as follows: ''"Just as architects of old created styles to harmonize with their environment, so have the architects of Florida been creating, from native motifs, a style that is carefully adapted to the climatic conditions and surroundings of the state. This style has an individuality all its own and should have a fitting name to express its origins . . . The Florida Association of Architects will give a prize of $25.00 for the name selected." '' On February 21, 1916, Reynolds married Doris Crandall who was born on January 25, 1896 (died 1978). They were the parents of three children: Marie (Mrs. Harry H. Fetters), Howard M. Jr. (1922-1990) (married Darlene Lentz) and Robert (married Mary Elizabeth Saine).

Architectural work – partial listing

* Howard Middle School (former

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), 800 East Robinson St., Orlando, Florida - 1926 * Howard M. Reynolds Residence, 104 South Brown Ave., Orlando, Florida - circa 1922 (simplified 2-story Prairie Style) * Jones High School, 101 North Parramore Avenue, Orlando, Florida – 1922 * First Congregational Church of Winter Park, 225 S Interlachen Ave.,

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- 1924 * Osceola County High School – 1925 * Marks Street School (now, Marks Street Senior Center), 99 East Marks Street, Orlando, Florida -1925 * Winter Park Junior-Senior High School – 1926 * Orange County Chamber of Commerce, 113 East Central Boulevard, Orlando, Florida – 1926 * Osceola County Courthouse, remodeling – 1926 * Grand Avenue Elementary School, 800 Grand Avenue, Orlando, Florida - 1926 * Princeton Elementary School, 311 W. Princeton St., Orlando, Florida - 1926 * Cherokee Junior High School; 500 South Eola Drive, Orlando, Florida – 1927 * Howard M. Reynolds Residence, 204 South Brown Ave., Orlando, Florida - circa 1928 (2 story Colonial Revival) *

Kissimmee Kissimmee ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Osceola County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 79,226. It is a Principal City of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area, wh ...

Band Shell and Community Building, additions and remodeling – 1929 and 1937 * Mann Hall, Pell-Clarke School for Girls (Cathedral School)(demolished) - 1929 * First National Bank Building, 190 South Orange Avenue, Orlando – 1930http://www.cfhf.net/orlando/1929.htm * Howard M. Reynolds, Sr., Residence, 1315 Buckingham Road,

- 1930 (1-story Cape Cod with detached garage) * Howard M. Reynolds, Jr., Residence, 1485 Westchester Ave.,

- n.d.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reynolds, Howard M. People from Orlando, Florida 1885 births 1943 deaths Architects from Florida