Emmanuel Louis Masqueray

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Emmanuel Louis Masqueray (1909)

Emmanuel Louis Masqueray (born September 10, 1861 in Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime department , France , † May 26, 1917 in Saint Paul in Minnesota , United States ) was a French architect who emigrated to the United States in 1887 and especially in the state Minnesota realized important structures.

Life

After childhood years in Dieppe and Rouen , Emmanuel Louis Masqueray moved with his parents to Paris around 1873 . The buildings of the city inspired him. In 1879 he became an architecture student at the École des Beaux-Arts . He remained lifelong loyal to the eclectic Beaux Arts style . In Paris he worked for the monument authority and received his first awards.

After moving to the USA in 1887, he first found employment with a New York architecture firm . In 1893 he opened his own architecture school, the Atelier Masqueray , and taught the students the aesthetics of what would later become known as the French “ Belle Époque ”.

He gained national fame in 1901 when the planning committee of the 1904 World Exhibition in St. Louis appointed him the lead architect. With several of his earlier students, he designed and realized numerous exhibition buildings.

In 1905 he was commissioned by Archbishop John Ireland to build the new Saint Paul Cathedral in Saint Paul , Minnesota. He moved his residence to Saint Paul, opened a studio there and, in addition to the cathedral, also created the designs for around a dozen parish churches , parish schools and residential houses in the region.

Major works

Individual evidence

  1. Lathrop p. 45

Web links

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