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Austin Willard Lord FAIA (27 June 1860 – 19 January 1922) was an American architect and painter. He was a partner in the firm of Lord & Hewlett, best known for their work on the design of the former William A. Clark House on Fifth Avenue in New York.〔(“Austin W. Lord Dies; Architect-Painter; Ex-Director of School of Architecture at Columbia; Designed Senator Clark's Home.” ) ''New York Times'', January 20, 1922.〕〔Dennis McFadden, "Lord, Austin W.", in ''Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects'' edited by Adolph K. Placzek (New York: Free Press, 1982), vol. 3., p. 32. ISBN 9780029250006.〕 == Education and early career == Lord was born in Rolling Stone, Minnesota,〔 the son of Orville Morrell Lord (1826–1906), one of the first settlers in the area.〔 (''History of Winona County'' ) (Chicago, H. H. Hill & Co., 1883), pp. 307–309, 62.〕 After receiving his initial training at the Minnesota State Normal School at Winona and in architects’ offices in Minnesota, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884. In 1887 he married Margaret Gage (or Gaige) of Winona, and the following year he traveled alone to Europe on a Rotch Traveling Scholarship.〔”Austin W. Lord.” (''Brickbuilder,'' vol. 25 ) no. 1 (January 1916), p. 25.〕 He spent the 1889–90 academic year studying in the ateliers of Honoré Daumet and Charles Girault in Paris,〔(Who’s Who in New York ) (New York: Who’s Who Publications, 1918), p. 681.〕 after which he visited Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Italy. On his return to the United States in 1890, Lord joined the firm of McKim, Mead, and White, where he worked on such projects as the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Metropolitan Club, and buildings at Columbia University.〔(''National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'' vol. 11 ) (New York: James T. White & Co., 1901), p. 330.〕 There he met James Monroe Hewlett, with whom he formed a partnership which was to endure until Lord’s death in 1922. Among the architects who worked at the firm were Washington Hull (1895–1909), Electus D. Litchfield (1901–08) and Hugh Tallant (who had been a partner with Henry Beaumont Herts since 1897 before joined Lord and Hewlett in 1911). During various times the firm was also known as "Lord, Hewlett and Hull" or (more infrequently) "Lord, Hewlett and Tallant." Also in 1894, Lord, under the aegis of Charles F. McKim, was appointed Director of the American School of Architecture in Rome (later the American Academy in Rome), where he stayed until 1896.〔 In 1899, William A. Clark, a wealthy businessman (and later U. S. senator) from Montana, commissioned Lord, Hewlett, & Hull to design a large house for him to be built on Fifth Avenue in New York City.〔(“W. A. Clark’s New House,” ) ''New York Times'', February 5, 1899.〕 (Clark had commissioned the firm to design his mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx in 1897.〔(Woodlawn Cemetery National Historic Landmark Nomination ) p. 19〕) In 1904 the commission led to a major legal dispute within the firm which was only resolved in 1908.〔(“Senator Clark’s New Home Causes a Suit,” ) ''New York Times,'' December 11, 1901.〕 Lord and Hewlett were also entangled in a legal dispute over the Department of Agriculture Building to be erected on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Although the firm won the national design competition for the building (over submissions by such prominent firms as Carrère and Hastings and Peabody and Stearns〔"United States Department of Agriculture Building to be Built in Washington, D. C." (''Architects’ and Builders’ Magazine'', vol. 34 ) no. 10 (July 1902), pp. 371–74. The article includes plans and elevations of the proposed building.〕), the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the appropriation made by the U. S. Congress for the project covered only the basic design of the building, and that the firm was never asked to proceed with detailed plans, let alone the actual construction.〔Lord and Hewlett v. United States, 217 U.S. 340 (1910) at (Justia ).〕〔Dana G. Dalrymple, (“Agriculture, Architects, and the Mall, 1901–1905: The Plan is Tested.” ) in Sue Kohler and Pamela Scott, eds. ''Designing the Nation’s Capital: The 1901 Plan for Washington, D.C.'' (Washington, D.C.: U. S. Commission of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 207–44. ISBN 016075223X〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Austin W. Lord」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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