August Esenwein

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August Carl Esenwein (born November 7, 1856 in Weinsberg , Kingdom of Württemberg , † June 29, 1926 in Buffalo , New York ) was a German-American architect .

Life

Temple of Music, Buffalo
General Electric Tower, Buffalo
Lafayette High School, Buffalo

Born in Württemberg, August Esenwein came to America with his parents Carl August Esenwein and Johanna Carolina (née Glessing) at the age of five. In 1871 the family returned to Germany. After attending grammar school in Stuttgart , he began studying engineering and architecture at the Stuttgart Polytechnic in 1874 . In 1876 he became a member of the Stauffia Corps . During his studies, which he completed in 1879, he did the German military service as a one-year volunteer . He then worked for a year as a draftsman in a Paris architecture office.

In 1880 he emigrated to the United States, where he got his first job as a draftsman in Buffalo . Then worked for two years in the engineering office of the Delaware Western Railroad. As an employee of this railway company, he won first prize in 1882 for a design for the first music hall in Buffalo. When he took over the construction supervision, he left the railway company and settled as an independent architect in Buffalo.

In 1897, Esenwein and James Addison Johnson founded the Esenwein & Johnson architectural association, which lasted until his death. He was a member of the Pan-American Board of Architects. Frank B. Kelly entered the partnership as his successor.

August Esenwein was married to Katherine Helen Haberstro (1871–1925) since May 1892. The marriage resulted in a son, August Carl (* 1906). He found his final resting place in the Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Buildings

As a freelance architect

  • Buffalo Music Hall, 1882 (destroyed by fire in 1885)

In the Esenwein & Johnson architectural community

  • Temple of Music, Buffalo, New York (site of the assassination attempt on US President William McKinley ), 1901
  • Lafayette High School, Buffalo, New York, 1903
  • Bancroft Hotel, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1912
  • General Electric Tower, also known as the Niagara-Mohawk Building and Electric Tower, Buffalo, New York, 1912
  • Administration Building, Buffalo, New York
  • Alt Nurnberg, Buffalo, New York
  • Brick Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gravestone of August Esenwein in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo
  2. ^ Carl Heydt: Chronicle of the Corps Stauffia zu Stuttgart , 1960, p. 43
personal data
SURNAME Esenwein, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esenwein, August Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinberg
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1926
Place of death Buffalo