1. Whitney Warren was an American Beaux-Arts architect who founded, with Charles Delevan Wetmore, Warren and Wetmore in New York City, one of the most prolific and successful architectural practices in the US.
17 Facts About Whitney Warren
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Whitney Warren was one of nine children born to George Henry Warren I and Mary Caroline Warren.
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Whitney Warren's siblings included Lloyd Warren, who was an architect, and George Henry Warren II, a stockbroker who was the father of Constance Whitney Warren.
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Whitney Warren was a cousin of the Goelets and Vanderbilts and the grandson of US Representative Jonas Phillips Phoenix.
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Whitney Warren was shown on official Columbia University records as a member of the class of 1885 of the School of Mines, Columbia University.
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From 1884 until 1894, Whitney Warren spent ten years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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Whitney Warren returned to New York in 1894, and began practicing as an architect.
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Whitney Warren supported actively the claims of Italy in the Adriatic, during and after the war.
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Whitney Warren was an intimate friend of Gabriele d'Annunzio, and was appointed diplomatic representative in the United States of the "Free State of Fiume".
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Whitney Warren was the author of Les Justes Revendications de l'Italie: la Question de Trente, de Trieste et de l'Adriatique.
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Whitney Warren took particular pride in his design of the new library building of the Catholic University of Leuven, which was finished in 1928.
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In 1884, Whitney Warren was married to Charlotte Augusta Tooker in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Whitney Warren died after a nine-week illness on January 24,1943, at New York Hospital in New York City.
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At the time of his death, Whitney Warren resided at 280 Park Avenue in New York City and was a member of the Knickerbocker Club, the Racquet and Tennis Club, and the Church and South Side Sportsmen's Clubs.
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Whitney Warren's widow died in 1951 and was buried alongside him in Newport.
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In 1917, Whitney Warren received the Medal of Honor from the American Institute of Architects for the firm's work.
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Works by Whitney Warren are found in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.