Name Charles Cassell Role Architect | Education University of Virginia | |
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Died 1916, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States Structures Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church, First Church of Christ, Scientist | ||
Charles Emmett Cassell (c. 1842–1916) was a Baltimore, Maryland-based architect.
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He was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and trained as a naval architect. He received a degree in engineering from the University of Virginia at age 15. During the Civil War he served as a captain in the engineers corps, under General George Pickett of the Confederate States Army. After the war, he traveled to South America and served in the Chilean Navy. He returned to the United States and practiced architecture in St. Louis, Missouri before coming to Baltimore about 1868. He was a founding member of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1870. He became an AIA fellow in 1905. He is buried in his family’s lot in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, Virginia.