Charles Howard Walker

Charles Howard Walker (1857–1936) was an architect, designer and educator in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1] He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[2] and was affiliated with Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts.[3][4] With Thomas Rogers Kimball (Walker & Kimball), he worked as architect-in-chief of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, 1898.[5]

Palace of Electricity, St. Louis World's Fair, 1903; designed by Walker & Kimball

Designed by Walker
Poster "For United America, YWCA Division for Foreign Born Women," designed by C. Howard Walker, 1919
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References
  1. Boston Almanac. 1883, 1884
  2. MIT Museum
  3. American Federation of Arts. American art directory, Volume 14. R.R. Bowker, 1918
  4. New York Times. January 6, 1907
  5. Brochure series of architectural illustration. Boston: Bates & Guild Co., June 1898
  6. Omaha Public Library Archived July 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  7. Library of Congress
  8. Sylvester Baxter. Boston park guide: including the municipal and metropolitan systems of greater Boston. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1898

Further reading

By Walker

About Walker
  • American Federation of Arts. American art annual. MacMillan Co., 1905.
  • Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis & Company, 1915.
  • William Emerson. Charles Howard Walker (1857–1936). Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 72, No. 10 (May, 1938), pp. 396–397.
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