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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

On 17 June 1947 George C. Nimmons died in Chicago. His plants and department stores for Sears, Roebuck and Company shaped the look of American commercial building in…