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George Archer

1848 – 1920

American architect

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Lived 1848 – 1920 (aged 71–72). George Archer was an American architect.

George Archer (March 1848 – January 6, 1920) was an American architect from Maryland. He designed several churches, banks, and other buildings in Maryland.

Early life George Archer was born in March 1848 at Allendale in Churchville, Maryland, to Thomas Archer. He attended public and private schools and graduated from Princeton University in 1870. He graduated Princeton with his friend Stevenson A. Williams. Around 1905, he formed the firm Archer and Allen. Buildings at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, on North Charles Street, (later renamed the Notre Dame of Maryland University) Graham-Hughes House, his 1888 landmark residence on the southwest corner of North Charles and West Madison Streets, facing Washington Place and the famous Washington Monument in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood of central Baltimore, Maryland.

Personal life Archer did not marry. His brother was R. Harris Archer.

Archer died on January 6, 1920, following an operation for diabetes at Union Protestant Infirmary in Baltimore. He was buried at Churchville Presbyterian Church cemetery.

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1848
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Died
1920
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Education
Princeton University

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American architect (1848-1920)

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: George Archer

· Wikidata: Q16043455

· DBpedia: George Archer (architect)

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