Horace Trumbauer
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Horace Trumbauer was a prominent American architect of the Gilded Age, known for designing residential manors for the wealthy. Later in his career he also designed hotels, office buildings, and much of the campus of Duke University.
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Grey Towers Castle (1893), Trumbauer's first major commission, is the centerpiece of Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania.
Lynnewood Hall (1897-1900), also known as the Peter A. B. Widener mansion, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum of Art, built between 1916 and 1928, a collaboration between Trumbauer's firm and Zantzinger, Borie and Medary
Trumbauer's grave in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
John H. Watt house in Wayne, Pennsylvania (1893)
Public Ledger Building in Philadelphia (1921)
The former Jenkintown Bank & Trust building erected between 1924 and 1925 at the northeast corner of (Old) York Road and West AvenueArchitects from United States 6
About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Architects
Type
Architect
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1868 to 1938 · aged 69
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