Paul Philippe Cret (October 23, 1876 – September 8, 1945) was a French-born

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and

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. For more than thirty years, he taught at a design studio in the Department of Architecture at the

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Biography

Early life and education

Born in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

, France, Cret was educated at that city's

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, then in Paris, where he studied at the atelier of

Jean-Louis Pascal Jean-Louis Pascal (4 June 1837 – 17 May 1920) was an academic French architect. Life Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts by Émile Gilbert and Charles-Auguste Questel. He won the Grand Pri ...

Career

The Tower, University of Texas at Austin (ca 1980)

In 1903, Cret came to the United States to teach at the

. After having settled in the U.S., Cret was visiting France when

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broke out. He enlisted and remained in the

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for the duration of the war, and was awarded the

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and made an officer in the

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. Cret's practice in the U.S. began in 1907. His first major commission, designed with Albert Kelsey, was the Pan American Union Building, (the headquarters of what is now the

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), in Washington D.C., which was built between 1908 and 1910, a breakthrough that led to many war memorials, civic buildings, court houses, and other solid, official structures. His work through the 1920s was firmly in the Beaux-Arts tradition, but with the radically simplified classical form of the Folger Shakespeare Library, built between 1929 and 1932, he flexibly adopted and applied monumental classical traditions to modernist innovations. Some of Cret's work is remarkably streamlined and forward thinking, and includes collaborations with sculptors such as Alfred Bottiau and Leon Hermant. In the late 1920s, he was brought in as design consultant on Fellheimer and Wagner's, which is the present-day Cincinnati Union Terminal, built between 1929 and 1933 during

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 ...

's peak of popularity in architectural style in the U.S. In 1927, Cret became a U.S. citizen. Cret was elected to the

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in 1928. In 1931, the regents of the

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commissioned Cret to design a master plan for the campus, and build the Beaux-Art Main Building, which was constructed between 1934 and 1937 and is the university's signature building structure. Cret went on to collaborate on about 20 additional buildings on the University of Texas at Austin campus. In 1935, he was elected into the

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as an associate member, and became a full academician in 1938. Cret's contributions to the

railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

industry included designing the side fluting on

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's '' Pioneer Zephyr'', which debuted in 1934, and the Santa Fe's '' Super Chief''

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s, which were completed in 1936. He was a contributor to '' Architectural Record'', ''American Architect'', and ''

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''. He wrote the article "Animals in Christian Art" for the ''

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''. Cret won the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1938. Ill health forced his resignation from teaching in 1937. He served on the

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from 1940 to 1945. Cret's work was displayed in the exhibit, ''From the Bastille to Broad Street: The Influence of France on Philadelphia Architecture'', at the

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in 2011. An exhibit of his train designs, ''All Aboard! Paul P. Cret's Train Designs'', was displayed at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia from July 5, 2012 to August 24, 2012. With a collection of 17,000 drawings and more than 3,000 photographs, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia has the largest archive of Cret's work.

Death

After years of limited activity, Cret died in

of heart disease on September 8, 1945. He was interred at The Woodlands in Philadelphia.

Legacy

Eternal Light Peace Memorial Gettysburg PA1

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission marker at the former home of Paul Philippe Cret

Cret taught in the Department of Architecture at the

for over 30 years, and designed the overall design for the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial in

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, the

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, the master plan for the

, the

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, one of the primary bridges across the

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between Philadelphia and

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, and the Duke Ellington Bridge in

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Cret's students included

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, who studied under him at the University of Pennsylvania and worked in Cret's architectural office in 1929 and 1930. Other notable architects who studied under Cret include Alfred Easton Poor,

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, and Chinese architect Lin Huiyin. Cret designed war memorials, including the

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(1914–17), the Pennsylvania Memorial at the Meuse-Argonne Battlefield in Varennes-en-Argonne, France (1927), the Chateau-Thierry American Monument in Aisne, France (1930), the American War Memorial at

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, and the

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(1937). On the 75th anniversary of the

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, President

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dedicated Cret's Eternal Light Peace Memorial (1938). For the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, the predecessor of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), Cret designed

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that would mark places and buildings in

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where historical events had transpired. Following Cret's death in 1945, his four partners assumed the practice under the partnership Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson, which for years was referred to by staff members as H2L2. The firm officially adopted this nickname as its formal title in 1976. H2L2 celebrated 100 years in 2007.

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has speculated that Cret is not better known today due to his influence on

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and

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, such as

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's Zeppelinfeld at the

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Major projects

* 1908–09:

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(with Warren Laird and Arthur Peabody) * 1908–10:

Building in

(with Albert Kelsey) * 1914–17:

in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania * 1916–17: Central Library in

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(with Zantzinger, Borie and Medary) * 1922–26:

crossing the

from

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* 1923–25: Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania * 1923–27: Detroit Institute of Arts in

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(with Zantzinger, Borie and Medary) * 1926–29:

in Philadelphia (with Jacques Gréber) * 1928–29: George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge in

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* 1929: Integrity Trust Company Building in Philadelphia * 1929: World War I Memorial in

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* 1929–32: Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. * 1930: Chateau-Thierry American Monument in

Aisne Aisne ( , ; ; pcd, Ainne) is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne. In 2019, it had a population of 531,345.Henry Avenue Bridge over

Wissahickon Creek Wissahickon Creek is a tributary of the Schuylkill River in Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties, Pennsylvania. Wissahickon Creek rises in Montgomery County, runs approximately 23 miles (37 km) passing through and dividing Northwest ...

in Philadelphia * 1931–32: Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Klingle Valley in Washington, D.C. * 1932: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia at 925 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia * 1932–33:

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in Hershey, Pennsylvania * 1933: United States Courthouse in

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(consulting architect) * 1933–34: Central Heating Plant in Washington, D.C. * 1933–61: Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial in Philadelphia * 1934–37: Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin in

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* 1934–38: Tygart River Reservoir Dam near Grafton, West Virginia * 1935: Duke Ellington Bridge in Washington, D.C. * 1935–37:

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in Washington, D.C. * 1935–37:

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* 1936:

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Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings at the

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(consulting architect) * 1936–39: Texas Memorial Museum, in Austin, Texas (consulting architect) * 1937:

Waregem Waregem (; vls, Woaregem), sometimes known as Waereghem, is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality lies in the valley of the river Leie, between Kortrijk and Ghent. It is part of the arrondiss ...

, Belgium (with Jacques Gréber) * 1938:

Eternal Light Peace Memorial The Eternal Light Peace Memorial is a 1938 Gettysburg Battlefield monument dedicated on July 3, 1938, commemorating the 1913 Gettysburg reunion for the 50th anniversary of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1913. The natural gas flame in a ...

Gettysburg Battlefield The Gettysburg Battlefield is the area of the July 1–3, 1863, military engagements of the Battle of Gettysburg within and around the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Locations of military engagements extend from the site of the first shot ...

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(

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, sculptor) * 1939–44: National Naval Medical Center, Buildings 1 and 17, in

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(consulting architect) * 1940: 2601 Parkway in Philadelphia

Gallery

File:Pan American Union, Washington, DC in 1943.jpg, Pan-American Union, now the

, in

(1908–10), (with Albert Kelsey) File:National Memorial Arch in Valley Forge, PA (cropped).jpg,

, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (1914–17) File:Biblioteca central, Indianápolis, Estados Unidos, 2012-10-22, DD 06.jpg, Indianapolis Central Library in

(1916–17), (with Zantzinger, Borie and Medary) File:Detroit Institute of Arts January 2015 03.jpg, Detroit Institute of Arts in

(1923–27), (with Zantzinger, Borie and Medary) File:Rodin Museum - Joy of Museums 2.jpg,

(1926–29), ( Jacques Gréber, landscape architect) File:Folger Shakespeare Library DC.JPG, Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. (1929–32) File:CMC-Union Terminal.jpg, Cincinnati Union Terminal in

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(1929–33), (with Fellheimer & Wagner) File:HenryAvenueBridge.jpg, Henry Avenue Bridge over

in Philadelphia (1930–32) File:Cortlandt V.D. Hubbard, Photographer 1951 GENERAL VIEW - Federal Reserve Bank, 921-939 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA HABS PA,51-PHILA,301-1.tif, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in Philadelphia (1932) File:Central Heating Plant - Washington, D.C..jpg, Central Heating Plant in Washington, D.C. (1933–34) File:University of texas at austin main building 2014.jpg, Main Building, University of Texas in

(1934–37) File:USACE Tygart River Lake and Dam.jpg, Tygart River Reservoir Dam near Grafton, West Virginia (1934–38) File:Seal of the United States Federal Reserve Board.svg, The seal for the Board of Governors of the

Federal Reserve System The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a ...

, 1936 File:Flanders Field American Cemetery (Waregem) 6.JPG,

, Belgium (1937), ( Jacques Gréber, landscape architect) File:US Navy 030820-N-9593R-114 The entrance to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.jpg, Bethesda Naval Hospital Tower, also known as Building 1, in

(1939–42). President

picked the location and drew a rough plan and sketches for this building.Maryland Historical Trust
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, the headquarters of the

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in Washington, D.C. (1935–37)

References

External links

Paul Philippe Cret biography
at University of Pennsylvania

* * * ttp://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display_projects.cfm/22472 Paul Philippe Cretfrom Philadelphia Architects and Buildings.
First chapter of "The Civic Architecture of Paul Cret"

Paul Philippe Cret architectural drawings, circa 1901-1936
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