{{Short description|American architect, designer and educator}} {{Infobox architect | name = Charles Howard Walker | image = Charles Howard Walker 1898.jpg | caption = Charles Howard Walker (c. 1898) | birth_date = {{Birth date|1857|01|09}} | birth_place = West Roxbury, Massachusetts | death_date = {{Death date and age|1936|04|12|1857|01|09}} | death_place = West Roxbury, Massachusetts | awards = }}

'''Charles Howard Walker''' {{Post-nominals|list=F.A.I.A.}} (January 9, 1857 &ndash; April 12, 1936) was an architect, designer and educator in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref>Boston Almanac. 1883, 1884</ref> He was associated with the architecture department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology<ref>[http://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?type=related&kv=19845&t=people MIT Museum]</ref> and was affiliated with Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts.<ref>American Federation of Arts. American art directory, Volume 14. R.R. Bowker, 1918</ref><ref>New York Times. January 6, 1907</ref>

== Biography == Walker was born January 9, 1857, in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, to George S. Walker and Mary L. Damorell.<ref name="Marquis">[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/1185/mode/2up WALKER, Charles Howard], in ''Who's Who in America'' (1901-1902 edition); via archive.org</ref> In 1875 at the age of 18, Walker worked at the architectural office of Sturgis and Brigham, where he had opportunities to study architecture in New York, Europe, and Asia Minor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Beattie |first=James A. |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.25406/page/395/mode/2up |title=Proceedings of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences |last2=Huang |first2=Tzu-Ching |last3=Benedict |first3=Mason |publisher=The American Academy of Arts and Sciences |year=1938 |volume=LIXXII |publication-place=Boston |pages=396–397 |chapter=Biographical Notices |issue=3}}</ref>

In 1885, Walker partnered with Thomas Rogers Kimball and formed the firm Walker & Kimball. This partnership continued until 1899 when it ended after Walker and Kimball were architects in chief for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Greater America Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska.<ref>Brochure series of architectural illustration. Boston: Bates & Guild Co., June 1898</ref> Walker practiced architecture solo until 1911 when he formed with his son, Harold D. Walker, the firm C. Howard Walker and Son. In 1925, architect Frederick S. Kingsbury joined the firm and was renamed to Walker and Walker and Kingsbury. Shortly after in 1930, the firm was renamed to Walker and Walker.<ref name=":0" />

Walker was a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was associated with their department of architecture for forty-nine years.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://www.sah.org/docs/misc-resources/brief-biographies-of-american-architects-who-died-between-1897-and-1947.pdf |title=Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947 |publisher=Society of Architectural Historians |others=Transcribed by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. |pages=133–134}}</ref> He also lectured at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Lowell Institute.<ref name=":0" />

Walker was a member of the Boston Art Commission, National Fine Arts Commission, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Institute of Arts and Letters, American Federation of Arts, and the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts.<ref name="Marquis" /><ref name=":1" /> Walker was one of six delegates for the United States at the International Congress of Architects in 1930 in Budapest.<ref name=":1" />

Walker died April 12, 1936, in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.<ref name=":0" />thumb|right|400px|Palace of Electricity, St. Louis World's Fair, 1903; designed by Walker & Kimball

==Designed by Walker== thumb|right|Poster "For United America, YWCA Division for Foreign Born Women," designed by C. Howard Walker, 1919

* Mount Vernon Church, Beacon St., Boston, ca.1892 * Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska, 1898<ref>[http://digital.omahapubliclibrary.org/transmiss/buildings/architect3.html Omaha Public Library] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725140208/http://digital.omahapubliclibrary.org/transmiss/buildings/architect3.html |date=July 25, 2011 }}</ref> * Bancroft Memorial Library, Hopedale, Massachusetts, ca. 1898 * Electricity building, St. Louis World's Fair, 1903<ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/1901-09-22/ed-1/seq-1/ Library of Congress]</ref> * Stony Brook Bridge, Back Bay Fens, Boston<ref>Sylvester Baxter. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eGM9AAAAYAAJ Boston park guide]: including the municipal and metropolitan systems of greater Boston. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1898</ref> * William Fogg Library, Eliot, Maine, 1907 * Rye Public Library, Rye, New Hampshire, 1910 * Stratham Historical Society building, Stratham, New Hampshire, 1912 ** originally the George A. and Emma B. Wiggin Memorial Library building

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==Further reading== ===By Walker=== * Architecture of the Library. In: [https://books.google.com/books?id=IX8ZAAAAMAAJ Handbook of the new Public library in Boston]. Boston: Curtis & Co., 1895. * Theory of mouldings. 1926.

===About Walker=== * American Federation of Arts. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CkUAAAAAYAAJ American art annual]. MacMillan Co., 1905. * [https://books.google.com/books?id=5jk1AAAAIAAJ Who's who in New England]. A.N. Marquis & Company, 1915. * William Emerson. Charles Howard Walker (1857&ndash;1936). Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 72, No. 10 (May, 1938), pp.&nbsp;396–397.

==External links== {{commons category|Charles Howard Walker}} * WorldCat. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n2007-2606 Walker, Charles Howard 1857-1936] * [https://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=%22c+howard+walker%22&num=100 Google news archive]. Articles about C. Howard Walker. * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/drmo/528874273/ Flickr]. Photo of nos. 493, 495, and 497 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston; "built in 1895, and designed by architects Arthur H. Vinal and Charles Howard Walker" * Flickr. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/22280677@N07/3283877698/ Bancroft Memorial Library] in Hopedale, Massachusetts * [http://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?type=related&kv=61904&t=objects MIT Museum]. Portrait by Emil Pollak-Ottendorf of 5 architects: William Felton Brown, Charles Howard Walker, Harry Wentworth Gardner, John Osborne Sumner, William Henry Lawrence. * {{archINFORM|arch|73643}}

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