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- The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939. The office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939. About. The office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939. About. The office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Alfred Bult Mullett (April 7, 1834 – October 20, 1890) was a British-American architect who served from 1866 to 1874 as Supervising Architect, head of the agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings.
History. Collection. Furniture. Designs of the Supervising Architect. Engraving depicting the furnishings of the Secretary of the Treasury, c.1865. Furnishing a government office building was not new to Supervising Architect Alfred B. Mullett.
Louis A. Simon FAIA (1867–1958) was an American architect. He spent almost his entire career with the Office of the Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury. He served as the last supervising architect from 1934 to 1939 and thereafter of the Public Buildings Branch of the Federal Works Agency until 1941.
Jan 25, 2003 · by. Antoinette J. Lee. Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office provides the first comprehensive history of the Office of the Supervising Architect, the organization that designed federal government buildings from the early 1850s to the late 1930s.
Born: 1867, Died: 1958. Born in Baltimore, MD, Louis A. Simon would dominate the Office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury for some 45 years. Simon received his architectural education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then launched the traditional tour of Europe, and finally opened an office in Baltimore in 1894.
