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Name
  
William Crowell


Died
  
1951

William C. Crowell (1871–1951) was an American architect and builder.

Buildings which he designed or built include:

  • Scottish Rite Cathedral (Pasadena, California), built in 1925
  • Kindel Building, 1095 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, California, built in 1928, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places
  • The Atheneum and many other buildings on the Caltech campus
  • Huntington Library

    • Crowell was born in 1871 near Argyle, Nova Scotia, Canada. He studied architecture in Seattle, Washington. He opened and ran the William C. Crowell Company in Pasadena, California, from 1897 to 1939, at which date he turned operation over to one of his sons.

    He married Iva Grace Dickerson of Nova Scotia in 1899, and they had eight children.

    References

    William C. Crowell Wikipedia
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