Charles Howard Walker (1857-1936), Architect

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DBA: C. Howard Walker

Charles Howard Walker was born on November 9, 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was trained in local architectural offices, and in 1879 he went on a Archaeological Expedition to Asia, and then studied architecture in Europe before returning to the states. Upon his return to Boston in 1884, he worked on a variety of buildings for about 5 years. In 1889, he formed a partnership with Thomas Rogers Kimball in Omaha, Nebraska. Their partnership, Walker & Kimball, Architects, was appointed the official architects of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha. He later worked as an architect and a partner in several more Omaha firms. Walker died on April 17, 1936.[1][2]

"His buildings were comparatively few, and he was best known as a teacher and writer and also, for a period, as editor of the Architectural Review."4

49 yrs assoco w/ ar¬chi¬tec¬ture de¬part¬ment of the Mas¬sa¬chu¬setts In¬sti¬tute of Tech¬no¬logy, re¬ti¬ring as pre¬si¬dent eme¬ri¬tus in 1933. He also lec¬tu¬red at the New Eng¬land Con¬ser¬va¬tory of Arts, of which he was one of the foun¬ders.5

This page is a contribution to the publication, Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects. See the format and contents page for more information on the compilation and page organization.

Compiled Nebraska Directory Listings

Boston, Massachusetts, 1886-1895, 1899-1900.[3]

Educational & Professional Associations

1874-1879: with Sturgis & Brigham, Architects, Boston, Massachusetts.[4][7]

1879: working in New York City.[4]

1881: archeological expedition to Asia Minor.[4][6]

1882-1883: Travel in Europe.[4][6]

1884-1933: lecturer in fine arts and professor of architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4][5][7]

1884-1888: architect, Boston, Massachusetts.[3][6][7]

1889-1891: architect & partner, Walker & Best, Architects, Boston, Massachusetts, and 1890-1891, Omaha, Nebraska.[3][a]

1891: member and Fellow of the AIA.[1]

1891: architect & partner, Walker, Kimball & Best, Architects, Boston, Massachusetts and Omaha, Nebraska.[3]

1891-1899: architect & partner, Walker & Kimball, Architects, Boston, Massachusetts and Omaha, Nebraska.[3]

1898-1899: member, Boston Art Commission.[6]

1900-ca. 1919: architect, Boston, Massachusetts.

1909: appointed to the National Fine Arts Commission.[5][6]

1913-1914: lecturer in fine arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.[6]

1913-____: director, School of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.[6]

ca. 1919-ca. 1925: partner, C. Howard Walker & Son, Architects, Boston, Massachusetts.[7]

ca, 1925-____: partner, Walker, Walker & Kingsbury, Architects, Boston, Massachusetts.[7]

Buildings & Projects

Notes

a. First Omaha directory listing, 1890.

Writings

“The Great Exposition at Omaha,” C. Illus., lv (1898), pp. 518–21.4

“Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis, Missouri,” Architectural Review [Boston], XI (1904): 197–220.4

C. Howard Walker, An Architectural Monograph on Some Old Houses on the Southern Coast of Maine. (St Paul, MN, 1918).4

C. Howard Walker, The theory of mouldings. (Cleveland, Ohio: J. H. Jansen, 1926) See https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000604376

Thomas W. Sears and C. Howard Walker. Parish Churches of England. (Boston: Rogers and Manson Company, [1915]). See https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000568205

C. Howard Walker, The book-plates of Dorothy Sturgis Harding. (Boston: The Graphic Arts. 1920). See https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009042149

C. Howard Walker, "Architecture of the Library," in Handbook of the new Public library in Boston. (Boston: Curtis & Co., 1895).

References

1. The AIA Historical Directory of American Architects, s.v. “C. Howard Walker (1857-1936),” (ahd1046820). Accessed August 10, 2010. http://public.aia.org/sites/hdoaa/wiki

2. “Walker, C. Howard,” Henry F. Withey, A.I.A., and Elsie Rathburn Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) (Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company, 1956. Facsimile edition, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970).

3. Boston Directory, 1886-1895, 1899-1900. Boston Athenaeum Digital Collections. Accessed February 23, 2017. http://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16057coll32

4. “Walker, C. Howard,” The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Ed. Joan Marter. (London: Oxford University Press, 2011). Oxford Reference, accessed February 26, 2017. http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195335798.001.0001/acref-9780195335798-e-2151?rskey=YngORI&result=2151

5. "C[harles] Howard Walker, architect (1857-1936)," archINFORM, entry 73643, February 8, 2017. Accessed February 26, 2017. https://eng.archinform.net/arch/73643.htm

6. “Walker, C. Howard,” Who’s who in New England, ed. Albert Nelson Marquis, 2nd Ed (Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1916): 1102. Google Books, accessed February 26, 2017. https://books.google.com/books?id=5jk1AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=snippet&q=walker%2C%20c&f=false

7. Back Bay Houses. Accessed February 26, 2017. https://backbayhouses.org/charles-howard-walker/

Other Sources

Entry in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (New York: Macmillan, 1982).

W. Emerson, "Obituary," American Architect CXLVIII (1936): 109.4

Page Citation

D. Murphy, “Charles Howard Walker (1857-1936), Architect,” in David Murphy, Edward F. Zimmer, and Lynn Meyer, comps. Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, April 2, 2015. http://www.e-nebraskahistory.org/index.php?title=Place_Makers_of_Nebraska:_The_Architects Accessed, March 28, 2024.


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