George R. Mann Dies (1939)
On 20 March 1939 George R. Mann died. For three decades the dominant architect in Arkansas, he left the State Capitol in Little Rock as his monument, alongside…
George R. Mann Is Born (1856)
On 12 July 1856 George Richard Mann was born. Trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he became the leading architect in Arkansas between 1900 and 1930 and…
Elmer A. Stuck Dies (1978)
On 11 July 1978 Elmer A. Stuck died in Jonesboro, Arkansas, closing a career of more than fifty years. The Art Deco Medical Arts Building he designed with…
Elmer A. Stuck Is Born (1900)
On 2 February 1900 Elmer A. Stuck was born. From 1926 he practised in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where he and his partners built the leading architectural firm of the…
John Parks Almand Dies (1969)
On 24 March 1969 John Parks Almand died, having shaped much of Arkansas’s twentieth-century architecture across a career that ran from 1912 to 1962. His Art Deco Medical…
John Parks Almand Is Born (1885)
On 8 May 1885 John Parks Almand was born. From 1912 he practised in Arkansas for half a century. In 1929, with his partner Elmer A. Stuck, he…
Alvin M. Strauss Dies (1958)
In 1958 Alvin M. Strauss died, closing a career of four decades that had reshaped the civic skyline of Fort Wayne and much of northern Indiana. His Art…
Alvin M. Strauss Is Born (1895)
In 1895 Alvin M. Strauss was born in Kendallville, Indiana, the son of German immigrants. After apprenticing with architects in Chicago and Fort Wayne, he opened his own…
Joseph Younger Dies (1932)
On 16 May 1932 Joseph Younger died at the age of thirty-eight, barely a year after completing the Kennedy–Warren Apartment Building in Washington, D.C. His early death cut…
Joseph Younger Is Born (1894)
On 1 July 1894 the architect Joseph Younger was born. He built his career in Washington, D.C., where he became one of the capital’s most accomplished designers of…