Charles Klauder

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Charles Zeller Klauder (1872 - 1938) was an American architect best known for his work on university buildings and campus designs, especially his Cathedral of Learning, the first educational skyscraper.

1 Biography
2 Gallery
3 Architectural Work (Partial listing)
4 References
5 Notes
6 External links

[edit] Biography

Born on February 9, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Klauder was the son of of Louis and Anna Koehler Klauder, who had immigrated to Philadelphia from Germany.

Klauder studied architecture at the School of Industrial Art at the Pennsylvania Museum. At age fifteen, he entered the office of T. P. Chandler. Beginning in 1893 he worked for prominent Philadelphia architectural firms, including Wilson Brothers, Cope & Stewardson, Day & Brother, and Horace Trumbauer. In 1900, Klauder became chief draughtsman at Day & Brother, this led to their partnership, as Day & Klauder, which endured until Frank Miles Day's death in 1918.

Klauder's commissions include extensive work on these campuses: the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania, Penn State University, Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Cornell University. At Penn he designed Franklin Field, Hutchinson Gymnasium, the Coxe and Sharpe Wings of the University Museum, alterations to Weightman Hall and the Palestra. Several of his landmark Neo-Gothic buildings at Pitt are the Cathedral of Learning, Heinz Memorial Chapel and the Stephen Foster Memorial. The Cathedral of Learning, upon its completion, was the tallest educational building in the world, and today it ranks behind only a tower at Moscow University. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Marks Scout Resource Center at 22nd and Winter Streets in Philadelphia was built in 1929. Klauder designed the building in the Beaux Arts style.^[1]

Among the honors Klauder received: Gold Medal, A.I.A., 1921; Gold Medal, Architectural League, N.Y. 1921; Grand Prix Pan American Congress of Architects, 1927; Architectural Medal, Olympic Games, 1928. Klauder was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Klauder died, aged 66, on October 30, 1938.

[edit] Gallery

Cathedral of Learning

Heinz Memorial Chapel

Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center

[edit] Architectural Work (Partial listing)

Alma College Chapel, 1941
First Presbyterian Church, 1928, Kalamazoo, MI, 1941;
Mercersburg Academy, Proposed Lab, 1939
Stanton Military Academy, 1931
Woodrow Wilson residence, Washington, DC

At Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA:

Dietz-Santee Dormitory
Franklin-Meyran Dormitory
Biesecker Gymnasium
Hensel Auditorium
Fackenthal Laboratories
Central Heating Plant
Fackenthal Pool
Franklin and Marshall College Master Plan

At the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA:

Franklin Field 1922, 1925
Palestra
Hutchinson Gymnasium, 1926-1928
Coxe 1926 and Sharpe 1929 Wings of University Museum
Alterations to Weightman Hall

At Cornell University:

Founders Hall
Lyon hall, 1928
McFadden Hall, 1928
War Memorial, 1928
Mennen Hall, 1931

At Princeton University, fifteen buildings including:

Walker Hall, 1930
Holder Hall
University Dining Halls
Joline Hall, 1939

At St. Paul's School:

Central Heating Plant
Quadrangle Dorms

At The Pennsylvania State University:

College Master Plan
Sackett Building
Buckhout and Borland Labs
Steidle Building
The Nittany Lion Inn
Additions to Pond Lab and Sparks Building
The Power Plant
Henderson Building
(New) Old Main
Rec Hall
Pattee Library
Burrowes Building
Electrical Engineering West
Osmond and Frear Labs
Ag Engineering
Ferguson Building
The Poultry Plant
Additions to Steidle and Sparks
University of Colorado campus master plan 1918
Peabody Museum, Yale
Concordia Seminary, Clayton MO (fourteen campus buildings) including…
Martin Luther Tower
Moravian College and Theological Seminary, Bethlehem, PA, development plans
Marks Scout Resource Center, Philadelphia, 1930
Pendleton Hall, Wellsley

[edit] References

Alberts, Robert C. (1987). Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1150-7.
Klauder, Charles Zeller and Herbert C. Wise (1929). College Architecture in America and Its Part in the Development of the Campus. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.