Paul Philippe

CRET, PAUL PHILIPPE (Photo) F.A.I.A. - An architect, died September 8, 1945, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, aged sixty-eight.He was born at Lyon, France, October 23, 1876, and studied at the Lyce of Vourge at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Lyon.In 1896 he won the Paris prize and studied for the next seven years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.He was awarded the Rougevin prize and the Grand Medal of Emulation in 1901, second prize at the Concours Chenavard, and the gold medal at the Salon des Champs Elyses in 1903.He came to the United States in 1903 as Professor of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.He designed the memorial arch at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; the Pan-American Union Building, the Fogler Shakespeare Library, and the Federal Reserve Board Building, all in Washington, D. C.; and public buildings in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and Albany.He was one of the Municipal Art Jury in Philadelphia and was in charge from 1904 to 1907 of architectural teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.He was a member of the Socit des Architects Diplomes, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, the T-Square Club of Philadelphia (Honorary President), and the Society of Architectural Historians.

CRET, PAUL PHILIPPE (Photo) F.A.I.A. - An architect, died September 8, 1945, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, aged sixty-eight. He was born at Lyon, France, October 23, 1876, and studied at the Lyce of Vourge at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Lyon. In 1896 he won the Paris prize and studied for the next seven years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was awarded the Rougevin prize and the Grand Medal of Emulation in 1901, second prize at the Concours Chenavard, and the gold medal at the Salon des Champs Elyses in 1903. He came to the United States in 1903 as Professor of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He designed the memorial arch at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; the Pan-American Union Building, the Fogler Shakespeare Library, and the Federal Reserve Board Building, all in Washington, D. C.; and public buildings in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and Albany. He was one of the Municipal Art Jury in Philadelphia and was in charge from 1904 to 1907 of architectural teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member of the Socit des Architects Diplomes, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, the T-Square Club of Philadelphia (Honorary President), and the Society of Architectural Historians.