Architects from Pennsylvania - C. Emlen Urban, Charles K. Sumner, Charles M. Robinson, D. F. Creighton, Dominique Berninger, Edmund Bacon (Architect) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: C. Emlen Urban, Charles K. Sumner, Charles M. Robinson, D. F. Creighton, Dominique Berninger, Edmund Bacon (architect), Edwin Forrest Durang, Emmor Cope, Frank Miles Day, Frederick P. Dinkelberg, George Harold Waldo Haag, Herman J. Schwarzmann, Horace Trumbauer, Isaac Pursell, John A. Dempwolf, John Darlington Newcomer, John Fraser (architect), John T. Comes, Marion M. Steen, Paul Theodore d'Entremont, Peter Berndtson, Robert Smith (architect), Robert Venturi, Romaldo Giurgola, Steven Izenour, T. Norman Mansell, Thomas Ustick Walter. Excerpt: Charles Morrison Robinson (March 3, 1867 - August 20, 1932), most commonly known as Charles M. Robinson, was an American architect. He worked in Altoona and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1906 and in Richmond, Virginia from 1906 until the time of his death in 1932. He is most remembered as a prolific designer of educational buildings in Virginia, including public schools in Richmond and throughout Virginia, and university buildings for James Madison University, College of William and Mary, Radford University, Virginia State University, and the University of Richmond. He was also the public school architect of the Richmond Public Schools from 1910 to 1929. Many of his works have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Robinson was born in Hamilton, Virginia in Loudoun County, Virginia, the son of architect James T. Robinson. He apprenticed with D.S. Hopkins, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and John K. Peebles of Richmond, Virginia. In 1889, Robinson formed the architectural firm of Smith & Robinson with G. T. Smith in Altoona, Pennsylvania. In 1891, Robinson married Altoona native, Annie Custer. They had two children, Charles Custer Robinson (born 1893) and Miriam Robinson (born September 1895). At the time of the 1900 United States Census, Robinson was...