Waldron Faulkner

Lisner Auditorium of George Washington University, designed by Faulkner & Kingsbury and completed in 1946. The former American Association for the Advancement of Science building, now the Embassy of Tunisia, completed in 1956. The Brookings Institution building in Washington, designed by Faulkner, Kingsbury & Stenhouse and completed in 1957. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C., designed by Chatelain, Gauger & Nolan and Faulkner, Kingsbury & Stenhouse and completed in 1961. The Lincoln Gallery in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, as remodeled by Faulkner, Stenhouse, Fryer & Faulkner, completed in 1968. Waldron Faulkner (January 21, 1898 – May 11, 1979) was an American architect in practice in New York City and Washington, D.C. from 1927 to until his retirement 1968. Faulkner was a sole practitioner until 1939, when he formed a partnership with Slocum Kingsbury , his long-time collaborator. Later partners of the firm included Faulkner's son, Avery C. Faulkner , who sold the firm to CannonDesign in 1982.

Life and career Herbert Winthrop Waldron Faulkner was born January 21, 1898, in Paris to American parents. He was educated at Yale University, graduating with a BFA in architecture in 1924. He worked for New York City architects Richard Henry Dana IV, York & Sawyer, James Gamble Rogers and Leigh French Jr. before opening his own office in 1927. In 1934 he moved to Washington. In 1935 he hired Slocum Kingsbury, a coworker from York & Sawyer, and in 1939 they formed a partnership, Faulkner & Kingsbury. In 1946 the partnership was expanded to include another employee, John W. Stenhouse, as Faulkner, Kingsbury & Stenhouse. They practiced together until Kingsbury's retirement in 1964, and in 1966 the partnership was reorganized to include Frederick L. Fryer and Faulkner's son, Avery C. Faulkner, as Faulkner, Stenhouse, Fryer & Faulkner. Faulkner retired from active practice in 1968. The firm, afterwards led by the younger Faulkner, was renamed Faulkner, Fryer & Vanderpool and was ultimately acquired by Cannon Design of Grand Island, New York, now CannonDesign, in 1982.

Faulkner first came to prominence in the late 1920s as the architect of the Avery Coonley School in Downers Grove, Illinois, founded by his mother-in-law, Queene (Ferry) Coonley. After his move to Washington he was noted as an architect of public-facing buildings, including extensive work for George Washington University and American University. Faulkner's last major work was the conversion of the Old Patent Office Building into the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, which both opened in 1968. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (1940–46, NRHP 1990)

Faulkner, Kingsbury & Stenhouse, 1946–1966 George Washington University Hospital, 901 23rd St NW, Washington, D.C. (1948, demolished 2003) Bethesda Public Library, 7400 Arlington Rd, Bethesda, Maryland (1952, demolished) Providence Hospital, 1150 Varnum St NE, Washington, D.C. (1954) Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (former), 7144 13th Pl NW, Washington, D.C. (1955) Setting of the Equestrian statue of Simón Bolívar, Virginia Ave NW, Washington, D.C. (1959) American Chemical Society building, 1155 16th St NW, Washington, D.C. (1960, altered) McLean Medical Building, 1515 Chain Bridge Rd, McLean, Virginia (1965) Old Patent Office Building remodeling, 8th and G Sts NW, Washington, D.C. (1965–68)

Faulkner, Stenhouse, Fryer & Faulkner, 1966–1968 Beeghly Chemical Building, American University, Washington, D.C. (1967) Sacred Heart Hospital, 900 Seton Dr, Cumberland, Maryland (1967, demolished)