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Horace Trumbauer (December 28, 1868 – September 18, 1938) 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.
Born: 12/28/1868, Died: 9/18/1938. Internationally known, Horace Trumbauer achieved considerable success after rather modest beginnings in the architectural profession. Born in Philadelphia, young Trumbauer attended the public schools of Philadelphia until he was 16 years old.
Architect of Irvine Auditorium. Horace Trumbauer was born in Philadelphia in 1868. At age sixteen, after being educated in Philadelphia public schools, he began work in the architectural firm of G.W. and W.D. Hewitt.
Apr 22, 2016 · Editor’s Note: Horace Trumbauer, the brilliant, underrated architect behind two of Philadelphia’s iconic temples of education and culture–the Parkway Central branch of the Free Library and the Philadelphia Museum of Art–dropped out of high school at age 16.
Nov 30, 2015 · One of the largest surviving Gilded Age estates in the Philadelphia area, this formerly grand structure is actually for sale. Trumbauer designed this 110-room, T-shaped Neoclassical Revival...
Horace Trumbauer (December 28, 1868 – September 18, 1938) was in many ways the most enigmatic architect of America’s “Gilded Age.” Although he left school when he was 14, by the time he...
May 13, 2019 · In 1911, he hired celebrated Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer to design a three-story, fifty-room Georgian Revival mansion, framed by flagstone terraces and a carpet-like bowling green.
