Office of the Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury
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The Office of the Supervising Architect was an
United States Treasury Department that designed federal
government buildings from 1852 to 1939.
About
The office handled some of the most important architectural
landmarks
.
Tarsney Act
Until 1893 the office used in-house architects. In 1893 Missouri Congressman
St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1913 the act was repealed.[1]
Heads of Office of the Supervising Architect
- Robert Mills, as Federal Architect, 1836 to 1842
- Ammi B. Young, as Architectural Advisor, 1842 to 1852
- Ammi B. Young, 1852 to 1862 (first Supervising Architect per se)
- Isaiah Rogers, 1863 to 1865
- Alfred B. Mullett, 1865 to 1874
- William Appleton Potter, 1874 to 1877
- James G. Hill, 1877 to 1883
- Mifflin E. Bell, 1883 to 1886
- William Alfred Freret, 1887 to 1888
- James H. Windrim, 1889 to 1890
- Willoughby J. Edbrooke, 1891 to 1892
- Jeremiah O'Rourke, 1893 to 1894
- William Martin Aiken, 1895 to 1896
- James Knox Taylor, 1897 to 1912
- Oscar Wenderoth, 1913 to 1914
- James A. Wetmore, as Acting Supervising Architect, 1915 to 1933
- Louis A. Simon, 1933 to 1939
See also
References
- ISBN 0-19-512822-2
External links
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