Emmanuel Louis Masqueray
Emmanuel Louis Masqueray | |
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St. Paul , Minnesota, US | |
Occupation(s) | Architect, educator |
Emmanuel Louis Masqueray (1861–1917) was a
Biography
He was born in
Masqueray was a charter member of the
New York
He came to the United States in 1887 to work for the firm of
In 1893, Masqueray opened the
Increasingly, architectural historians are making the connection between the work of Masqueray and those who studied with him. It is important to have a list of those who were his students over the next decade in New York, in order to foster further awareness and research. According to contemporary published accounts of the exhibitions of the Atelier Masqueray, those who were his students include:
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- Henry Miller's Theatre, NYC)
- William T. L. Armstrong (later of the firm De Gelleke and Armstrong, New York)
- W. Bellows (architect Charles Walter Bellows of Columbus, OH)
- Guy Bolton (Broadway impresario)
- Charles Saunders Bridgman (1892-1897 Atelier Masqueray; then practiced with C. A. Rich; then 1903-1937 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
- Seymour Burrell (architect of the St. Germain Lofts, Houston, TX; S. H. Kress & Co. Corporate Architect)
- James E. Cooper (of d'Hauteville & Cooper, Long Island architects); Greentree, William Payne Whitney Mansion.
- Lester A. Cramer (later practiced in Los Angeles; architect of the Rosicrucian Fellowship Temple and the Sanatorium[at Mount Ecclesia)
- Roy Corwin Crosby (architect of houses on the Palisades)
- Clarence E. Decker (later of Decker and Stevenson, architects of the YWCA, San Diego)
- Mortimer Foster (later of Foster, Gade and Graham)
- Frederick George Frost, Sr. (principal of his own firm in New York City which later included his son and namesake), Hall of Fashion, New York 1939 World's Fair
- Leon N. Gillette (of the NYC firm Walker & Gillette)
- Mr. Gray (no first name given)
- William Cook Haskell (later of the firm Townsend, Steinle & Haskell)
- James Hopkins(of the Boston architectural firm of Kilham and Hopkins)
- John G. Hough
- William S. Hutton (later an Indiana school architect who partnered with George Grant Elmslie)
- Louis Jallade (architect of the gymnasium at the University of Delaware)
- John R. Jordan
- Rupert W. Koch (architect of men's dorm at the University of Michigan)
- Frederick Larkin (later of the US State Department in charge of Embassy design)
- Mr. Loud (no first name given)
- Louis Levitansky (later "Louis Levine") - Westchester County NY architect
- Charles E. Mack (associated with the firm of Cass Gilbert)
- Sylvester S. McGrath (later of the firm Davis, McGrath & Kiessling, architects of among many others, Gramercy East Professional Building, 115 East 23rd Street, New York City)
- Henry Murphy (architectural advisor to China)
- George Nagle (associated with Masqueray at the St. Louis Fair)
- Clarence A. Neff (later of Neff and Thompson, Norfolk, VA)
- Charles F. Owsley (principal of a Youngstown, OH, firm; designed art deco Isaly's headquarters there)
- Barnet Phillips, Jr. (later of the firm Barnet Phillips Architectural Decorators, New York)
- Carl Richardson
- Isabel Roberts (of the Oak Park studio of Frank Lloyd Wright)
- Lincoln Rogers (of the 1920s firm Rogers and Stevenson, in San Diego)
- Frank B. Rosman
- Mr. Schalkenbach (no first name given)
- Schultze and Weaver)
- Walter W. Sharpley (builder of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel)
- Francis S. "Frank" Swales (later of the firm Painter & Swales; designer of Selfridges' Store, Oxford Street, London, and The Brussels Exposition of 1910's Canadian Pacific Railway Pavilion)
- George E. Sweet (who became a naval architect)
- William Van Alen (architect of the Chrysler Building)
- Elwood Williams (associated with Masqueray for the St. Louis Exposition; later with offices at 507 Fifth Avenue, NYC)
- Edward J. Willingale (associated with J E M Carpenter as architects of the Lincoln Building (42nd Street, New York, New York)now known as One Grand Central Place)
- Wilison Joseph Wythe (assistant professor of drawing, University of California)
In 1897, Masqueray left the Hunt office to work for
St. Louis
His reputation became international in 1901 when the commissioner of architects of the St. Louis Exposition selected him to be Chief of Design. Masqueray in turn employed Louis C. Spiering (a fellow alumnus of the École des Beaux-Arts) and some of his former students including Frank Swales and George Nagle. As Chief of Design of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a position he held for three years, Masqueray had architectural oversight of the entire Fair and personally designed the following Fair buildings:
- Palace of Agriculture
- The Cascades and Colonnades
- Palace of Forestry, Fish, and Game
- Palace of Horticulture
- Palace of Transportation
Design ideas from all of these were widely emulated in civic projects across the United States as part of the
Minnesota
Masqueray arrived in St. Paul in 1905 and remained there until his death. He designed about two dozen parish churches for Catholic and Protestant congregations in the upper Midwest, including:
- Cathedral of Saint Paul, St. Paul (1904)
- Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis (1908)
- Incarnation Catholic Church, Minneapolis (1909)
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church on the Hill, St. Paul (1912)
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 655 Forest Street, St. Paul[9]
- Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas, 121 Cleveland Ave., St. Paul (1918)[10]
Masqueray designed several small churches in what is now the
- The Church of the Holy Redeemer (1915), Marshall
- Church of St. Peter (1911), St. Peter. This church was destroyed by the 1998 Comfrey–St. Peter tornado outbreak; a new church-school complex was built at a new location west of the city at 1801 West Broadway. The St. Peter Community Center and Public Library occupy the site of the former church.
- Church of St. Edward, Minneota
- Church of St. Francis Xavier (1917), Benson
- Sacred Heart Church, Murdock
Masqueray also designed important residences in and around St. Paul (one of which, a 1915 home at 427 Portland Avenue, has been owned by radio personality Garrison Keillor) and "Wind's Eye" in Dellwood MN; several parochial schools for the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul; Grace Hall (1912) at the Saint Paul Seminary and Ireland Hall (1912) at the College of Thomas (now University of St. Thomas).
In St. Paul in 1906, Masqueray founded an atelier which continued his Beaux Arts method of architectural training, among his students who trained there, perhaps the best known is Edwin Lundie (1886–1972).[11] Other architects associated with Masqueray in St. Paul were Fred Slifer and Frank Abrahamson.
Iowa
In the
- Keane Hall at Loras College, Dubuque (1913)[12]
- St. Patrick's Church, Cedar Falls (1914)[13]
- Immaculate Conception Church, Cedar Rapids (1914)[14]
Wisconsin
- St. Anne, Somerset
Other works
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Masqueray designed three more cathedrals, of which two were built:
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Wichita, Kansas (1912)[15]
- St. Joseph Cathedral, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (1919)[16]
He also designed the planned new city of Twin Falls, Idaho.[17]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Noted Architect Dead. E. L. Masqueray Was Chief of Design of St. Louis Exposition". The New York Times. May 27, 1917. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
Emmanuel Louis Mnsqueray chief of design of the St Louis ... of a number of American cathedrals died here today aged 56. Mr. Masqueray was ...
- University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
- ^ Six Feet Under By Stew Thornley, page 12
- ^ A French Architect in Minnesota, by Alan K. Lathrop, in "Minnesota Profiles", Summer 1980, p. 46
- ^ A French Architect in Minnesota, by Alan K. Lathrop, in "Minnesota Profiles", Summer 198, p. 47
- ^ Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City, by Neil Bascomb, page 23
- ^ What Women Can Earn, by Grace Hoadley Dodge, Thomas Hunter, page 109
- ^ “One Thousand Men of Mark Today”, Chicago, IL, 1916
- ^ St. Paul's Architecture, by Jeffrey A. Hess, Paul Clifford Larson, page 95.
- ^ "AIA Guide to St. Paul's Summit Avenue and Hill District", by Larry Millett, page 33.
- ^ "The Architecture of Edwin H. Lundie", by Dale Muflinger
- ^ "Loras College:History of Buildings". Loras College. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ "History". St. Patrick Church. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ Marjorie Pearson, Ph.D. "Commercial and Industrial Development of Downtown Cedar Rapids, c. 1865-1965" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ "Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception". Emporis. Archived from the original on July 22, 2013. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ "History of the Cathedral". St. Joseph Cathedral. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ websites of each of these buildings
External links
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- Works by or about Emmanuel Louis Masqueray at Internet Archive
- Basilica of St. Mary
- St Paul's on the Hill
- University of St. Thomas, MN
- Church of the Incarnation, 38th Street and Pleasant Avenue, Minneapolis
- Church of the Holy Redeemer, Marshall, MN
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Wichita, KS
- Church of St. Louis, King of France, St. Paul, MN