Name Harvey Page | ||
Harvey Lindsley Page (January 9, 1859 – January 5, 1934) was an architect who built many well known structures in Washington DC and San Antonio, Texas.
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Early life
Page was born in Washington DC on January 9, 1859 and was the son of Charles Grafton and Priscilla (Webster) Page. His father was an inventor who discovered the induction coil and the circuit breaker. Page went to school in Andover, Massachusetts and then at the Emerson Institute in Washington, D.C.
Early career
He studied architecture with J. L. Smithmeyer and he opened his own architectural office in the 1880s in Washington. His most well known works around Washington are the Army and Navy Club, the Metropolitan Club, and the Phoebe Hearst House. Page designed The Whittemore House between 1892 and 1894, located in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood. He built the house for opera singer Sarah Adams Whittemore and William C. Whittemore, her second husband. George and Phoebe Hearst, of the Hearst fortune, hired Page to reconfigure their Dupont Circle home into a Romanesque Revival style. A long row of homes in the north eastern section of Dupont Circle is the only remaining example of his exceptional contribution to more modest residential forms in Washington DC.
He moved to Chicago where he practiced with E. S. Hall at the H. L. Page and Company firm from approximately 1897 to 1900. Around the year 1900 he moved to San Antonio, Texas where he remained for the rest of his life.
Most important works
Page's most important works in San Antonio include: the International and Great Northern Railroad Depot (1907), the Masonic Temple, the L. B. Clegg House, the Schutz House, the San Antonio Coliseum, the Travis Club Building, and Temple Beth-El (1927). He also designed the Corpus Christi Coliseum and the Nueces County Courthouse (1914). Page designed the MOPAC Amtrak station that was built by the International & Great Northern Railroad in 1907. He was influenced by the architecture of San Antonio's Spanish missions and built the station in this style. He called this building his "Taj Mahal."
Painting
Later in life, Page began to paint, encouraged by a friend Robert Jenkins Onderdonk. He painted many landscape paintings of the old missions and the countryside around San Antonio.
Social life
Page had an active social life in San Antonio, a member of the San Antonio Club, the Travis Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Masons.
Family life
In 1902, Page married Anne T. Bower of New York. They had four children. Page died in San Antonio on January 5, 1934.