Josué Smith Solar (December 8, 1867 – 1938) was a Chilean architect.

Life and career

Josué Smith Solar was born in San Nicolás, Chile, son of

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engineer Silas Baldwin Smith and Chilean citizen Leonor Solar Ojeda. Smith Solar studied in Chillán and at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones of Santiago. In 1885, he began to study architecture at the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania, United States. In 1889 he traveled to Europe and returned to the United States in 1891, where he opened an architectural firm in

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. In 1894 he moved with his wife Cecilia Celestine Miller to Chile, and they ultimately settled there. His son, José Smith Miller, worked with him in Chile.

Architectural works

Smith's main works were the following: * Gran Hotel de Papudo, 1911,

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, 1921–1923, Santiago, Chile *

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, Chile * Hotel Carrera, Santiago de Chile * Remodeling of the southern facade of the

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, Santiago de Chile * Remodeling of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago de Chile. * Ministerio de Hacienda Building, Santiago de Chile *

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, Sede Los Leones, 1929–1932,

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* Colegio Inglés para Señoritas (Currently Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias para la Educación), 1925, Santiago de Chile. * Remodeling of the Portal Fernández Concha, 1927–1933, Santiago de Chile. * Puente del Arzobispo, 1929, Santiago de Chile. * Teatro Municipal de Chillán,

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Gallery

File:Santiago College centro Santiago.JPG,

School (Santiago, 1909) File:Club Hípico de Santiago 03.jpg,

(Santiago, 1921–1923) File:Utfsm.jpg,

(Valparaíso, 1931) File:MinHac.JPG, Ministerio de Hacienda de Chile (Santiago) File:Portal Fernandez Concha.jpg, Portal Fernández Concha (Santiago, 1927–1933) File:Puente del Arzobispo (2017).jpg, Puente del Arzobispo (Santiago, 1929) File:Teatro chillan 2.jpg, Teatro Municipal de Chillán (Chillán, 1940–1943, Completed in 2016) File:Recart papudo.jpg, Chalet Recard (Papudo, 1912) File:Casonas de Avenida República 2.JPG, Residence of Josué Smith Solar in the Barrio República (Santiago)

References

Bibliography

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith Solar, Josue 1867 births 1938 deaths Chilean architects 19th-century architects Chilean people of American descent People from Punilla Province