{{Short description|American architect (1840–1915)}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox architect | name = Archimedes Russell | image = Archimedes Russell (1840–1915).png | image_size = | caption = | nationality = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1840|06|13}} | birth_place = Andover, Massachusetts | death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|04|03|1840|06|13}} | death_place = Syracuse, New York | resting_place = Mount Auburn Cemetery | practice = | significant_buildings = Crouse College, Syracuse University | significant_projects = | significant_design = | awards = | signature = Signature of Archimedes Russell (1840–1915).png }} [[File:Sibley College Cornell between 1883 and 1894.jpg|thumb|right|West Sibley Hall, Cornell University (1870)]] [[File:CTHS Syracuse.jpg|thumb|right|Central Technical High School in Syracuse (1900)]] [[File:Crouse College, Syracuse University.jpg|thumb|right|Crouse College, Syracuse University (1881)]] [[File:Syracuse Courthouse.jpg|right|thumb|Onondaga County Courthouse, with Columbus Obelisk in foreground (1904-1907)]]
'''Archimedes Russell''' (June 13,1840 – April 3, 1915) was an American architect most active in the Syracuse, New York area.
==Biography== Born in Andover, Massachusetts and trained under local architect Horatio Nelson White, Russell served as a professor of architecture at Syracuse University from 1873 through 1881.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides_sua/html/sua_russell_a_prt.htm|title=Archimedes Russell Collection An inventory of his collection at the Syracuse University Archives|website=library.syr.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-09-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.syr.edu/collections/faculty/russell.html |title=Faculty Papers: Archimedes Russell |accessdate=2023-05-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716231718/http://archives.syr.edu/collections/faculty/russell.html |archivedate=2011-07-16 |publisher=Syracuse University Archives}}</ref>
In the course of his career he designed over 850 commercial and civic buildings in the central New York region, including the David H. Burrell Mansion in Little Falls, New York, a Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival stone mansion.
His practice still continues today as King + King Architects, and is New York state’s oldest and the third oldest architectural firm in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Krawczyk |first1=Kathryn |title=How one architecture firm shaped the face of Syracuse University |url=https://dailyorange.com/2018/04/one-architecture-firm-shaped-face-syracuse-university/ |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=The Daily Orange |date=4 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ABOUT – King + King Architects |url=https://kingarch.com/about/ |website=kingarch.com |access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref>
He died in Syracuse on April 3, 1915, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-russell/124445386/ |title=Russell |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=16 |date=1915-04-06 |access-date=2023-05-11 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Work== Russell's work, much of which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, includes:
* Mrs. I. L. Crego House, 1870 * West Sibley Hall, 1870, and McGraw Hall, 1872 at Cornell University * St Lucy Church, Syracuse, 1873 * First Baptist Church of Camillus, 1879 * Otsego County (New York) Courthouse, 1880 * Crouse College, Syracuse University, 1881 * Third National Bank, aka the Community Chest Building, Syracuse, 1885 * Overlook, Little Falls, New York, 1889 * Whedon–Schumacher House, Syracuse, 1892;<ref>{{cite web |last1=May |first1=Rachel |title=Whedon-Schumacher House has been Nominated by State Board for Historic Preservation to be added the State and National Register for Historic Places |url=https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/rachel-may/whedon-schumacher-house-has-been-nominated-state-board |website=New York State Senator Rachel May |publisher=The New York State Senate |access-date=21 August 2023 |date=26 March 2019}}</ref> National Register of Historic Places * West Hill School (Canajoharie, New York), 1891–93 * Dey Brothers Building, Syracuse, 1893, a contributing building in the South Salina Street Downtown Historic District * Bastable Theatre, Syracuse, 1893<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-02-16|title=Remembering the Bastable fire that forever changed Syracuse|url=https://www.syracuse.com/vintage/2018/02/the_bastable_was_a_fire_trap_remembering_the_fire_which_changed_syracuses_skylin.html|access-date=2022-01-29|website=syracuse|language=en}}</ref> * Central Technical High School, Syracuse, 1900 * Onondaga County Courthouse, Columbus Circle, Syracuse, 1904-1907 (with murals by William de Leftwich Dodge) * C. W. Snow and Company Warehouse, 1913 * St. Matthew's Church, East Syracuse, 1915 * St. Anthony of Padua Church, Syracuse
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==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070106144656/http://syracusethenandnow.org/Architects/Russel/Archimedes_Russel.htm Archimedes Russell, at Syracuse Then and Now]}} *{{commons inline}}
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