Word: upjohn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects held a quiet meeting last week to elect a successor to President Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker. There would have been nothing newsworthy about the affair but for the name of the new president: Hobart Brown Upjohn...
...greatest, but certainly the most long-lived name in U. S. architecture is Upjohn. Richard Upjohn was a co-founder (1857) and first president of the American Institute of Architects. By the time A. I. A. had grown large enough to become a national institution, his Son Richard Michell Upjohn was twice elected president of the New York Chapter, a title to which Grandson Hobart Upjohn succeeded last week...
...Richard Upjohn, a bearded, sanctimonious Briton, was a carpenter & cabinet maker with a nice appreciation of Perpendicular Gothic, who settled in New Bedford, Mass, in the late 1820's. A contractor friend one day passed his shop with a roll of drawings for a New England courthouse. Each one was labeled, "Alexander Harris, architect...
...that's architecture," said blunt Richard Upjohn, "then I'm an architect...
Architectural Plans and Elevations Neatly Executed On Short Notice by Richard Upjohn Orders Left at Mechanics Hall New Bedford