Julian Peabody

Julian Livingston Peabody (born March 29, 1881 in New York City , New York , USA ; † January 24, 1935 in the Atlantic off the coast of New Jersey ) was an American architect in the first half of the 20th century, who before was mainly active in the New York area and designed many public buildings.

Life

Peabody was born in New York in 1881 as one of three children to Charles Augustus Peabody, Jr. (1837-1922) and his wife Charlotte Anita Damon, who were married on January 27, 1880 in Manhattan . Both parents came from prominent New York families. His younger siblings were John Damon Peabody and Anita Leslie Peabody.

On March 27, 1913, in Aiken (South Carolina) , he married Celestine Eustis Hitchcock (born June 23, 1892), who was ten years his junior and daughter of the American polo professional Thomas Hitchcock senior and his wife Louise Marie Eustis excellent equestrian was known. The marriage resulted in two children, Julian Livingston Peabody, Jr. (born August 25, 1914 - November 16, 2014) and Daphne Peabody Murray (born March 28, 1922 in New York). The family lived on an estate called Pond Hollow Farm in Westbury Township on Long Island , which Peabody himself designed.

Peabody was a partner in the architectural firm Peabody, Wilson & Brown, and was best known as the architect of public buildings in the state of New York as the US Post Office Mineola in Mineola ( Nassau County ), the Westbury High School in Westbury (also Nassau County), the Cold Spring Harbor Library in Cold Spring Harbor ( Suffolk County ) and Huntington Town Hall in Huntington (also Suffolk County). In the early 1930s, he also renovated the renowned Hotel Astor in New York's Times Square in Art Deco style.

On January 24, 1935, Peabody and his wife went on board the Clyde-Mallory Line's Mohawk passenger ship in New York , which was to have Veracruz in Mexico as its terminus. They wanted to escape the cold New York winter and go on vacation to Guatemala . There Peabody wanted to spend most of his time with his hobby, painting. Just a few hours after departure, the Mohawk collided with the Norwegian freighter Talisman in front of the coastal town of Asbury Park and sank two and a half hours later. 47 people were killed, including Julian and Celestine Peabody. Their bodies have been recovered and identified.

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SURNAME	Peabody, Julian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Peabody, Julian Livingston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American architect
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York, USA
DATE OF DEATH	January 24, 1935
Place of death	Atlantic