Penrose Stout (1887–1934) was an American architect, best known for designing many Westchester County, New York residences and buildings. Among his many notable designs in Bronxville, New York are Merestone Terrace (1924), Brooklands (1927), Normandy Terrace Townhouses (1928) and the Bronxville Women's Club, (1928) added to the

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in 2007, He was born in

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in 1887, and received a degree in architecture from Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1909. He served in World War I in the Air Corps and earned a

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. He moved to

Bronxville, New York Bronxville is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States, located approximately north of Midtown Manhattan. It is part of the town of Eastchester. The village comprises one square mile (2.5 km2) of land in its entirety, a ...

in 1919 and was in practice there until his death in 1934. He married Lucia Meigs, granddaughter of

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(1842–1927), in 1921. In 1924, he designed the house at 105 Lee Circle,

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, now included in the Rivermont Historic District. He also designed or modified a number of residences in the

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at Bronxville and the estate Green Pastures at

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. Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather's sketchbook and letters to the Archives and History Department of Alabama in 2014. This unprecedented series, first displayed during the centennial of World War I, includes extensive sketches of military training, amusing aspects of camp life, the architecture of the French countryside, and Stout’s view from the cockpit.

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Prominent Village Architects: Penrose Stout
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stout, Penrose 20th-century American architects Architects from New York (state) Auburn University alumni People from Montgomery, Alabama 1887 births 1934 deaths Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States)