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in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was associated with the architecture department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was affiliated with Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts.

Biography

Walker was born January 9, 1857 in West Roxbury, West Roxbury, Massachusetts to George S. Walker and Mary L. Damorell.WALKER, Charles Howard
in ''Who's Who in America'' (1901-1902 edition); via archive.org In 1875 at the age of 18, Walker worked at the architectural office of John Hubbard Sturgis, Sturgis and Charles Brigham, Brigham, where he had opportunities to study architecture in New York (state), New York, Europe, and Anatolia, Asia Minor. In 1885, Walker partnered with Thomas Rogers Kimball and formed the firm Walker & Kimball. This partnership continued until 1899 when it ended after Walker and Kimball were architects in chief for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Greater America Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska. Walker practiced architecture solo until 1911 when he formed with his son, Harold D. Walker, the firm C. Howard Walker and Son. In 1925, architect Frederick S. Kingsbury joined the firm and was renamed to Walker and Walker and Kingsbury. Shortly after in 1930, the firm was renamed to Walker and Walker. Walker was a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was associated with their department of architecture for fourty-nine years. He also lectured at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Lowell Institute. Walker was a member of the Boston Art Commission, United States Commission of Fine Arts, National Fine Arts Commission, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters, American Federation of Arts, and the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. Walker was one of six delegates for the United States at the International Congress of Architects in 1930 in Budapest. Walker died April 12, 1936 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Designed by Walker

* Mount Vernon Church, Boston, Mount Vernon Church, Beacon St., Boston, ca.1892 * Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska, 1898 * Bancroft Memorial Library, Hopedale, Massachusetts, ca. 1898 * Electricity building, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair, 1903 * Stony Brook Bridge, Back Bay Fens, BostonSylvester Baxter
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including the municipal and metropolitan systems of greater Boston. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1898 * William Fogg Library, Eliot, Maine, 1907 * Stratham Historical Society building, Stratham, New Hampshire, 1912 ** originally the George A. and Emma B. Wiggin Memorial Library building

Biography

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