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Charles Klauder
Charles Klauder
Born	Charles Zeller Klauder; February 9, 1872; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	October 30, 1938 (aged 66); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	School of Industrial Art (Philadelphia)
Occupation	Architect
Practice	Wilson Brothers & Company; Cope and Stewardson; Day & Brother; Day and Klauder;
Buildings	See below
Projects	Academic buildings
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Charles Zeller Klauder (February 9, 1872 – October 30, 1938) was an American architect best known for his work on university buildings and campus designs, especially his Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, the first educational skyscraper.

Biography

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Klauder was the son of Louis and Anna Koehler Klauder, who had immigrated to Philadelphia from Germany. He studied architecture at the School of Industrial Art at the Pennsylvania Museum. At age 15, he entered the office of Theophilus Parsons Chandler Jr. Beginning in 1893 he worked for prominent Philadelphia architectural firms, including Wilson Brothers & Company, Cope & Stewardson, and Horace Trumbauer. In 1900, Klauder became chief draughtsman for Frank Miles Day & Brother, which led to a 1911 partnership, and the firm's eventual renaming as Day & Klauder. Klauder continued the firm after Day's 1918 death.

Klauder teamed with the English-born Day to design some of the nation's most influential and distinguished campus buildings during the heyday of university expansion in the early 20th century. Along with Cope & Stewardson, Day & Klauder may be credited with the invention of the Collegiate Gothic idiom in American architecture. Their early work at Princeton and Cornell universities set the standard for dormitory and classroom designs in the Ivy League. Klauder extended the Gothic idiom during the 1920s to incorporate elements of Art Deco abstraction and modern building technology. He created campus plans for the University of Colorado (1917) in Boulder, St Paul's School in Concord, NH, Pennsylvania State University at University Park, and Concordia Seminary in St Louis, MO. His work at Princeton included dining halls (1913), Dickinson Hall (1929), dormitories (1921), the Holder group (1928), and the university's second library (1927).^[1]

Several of his landmark Neo-Gothic buildings at the University of Pittsburgh 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.^[2]

Klauder considered his greatest achievement to be the Commons Room of the Cathedral of Learning. The Commons Room is a fifteenth-century English perpendicular Gothic-style hall that covers half an acre (2,000 m²) and extends upwards four stories, reaching 52 feet (16 m) tall.^[3]

For his lifelong architectural work, Klauder has received the gold medal, Architectural League, N.Y. 1921; Grand Prix Pan American Congress of Architects, 1927; Architectural Medal, Olympic Games, 1928.^[4] Klauder was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. In 1938 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.

Klauder died aged 66 on October 30, 1938. His remains are interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

Notable works

Brown University

Littlefield Hall, 1925
Hegeman Hall, 1926
Metcalf Research Laboratory, 1938

University of Colorado Boulder

Campus master plan, 1918. 15 buildings of the University of Colorado Boulder in the Tuscan Vernacular Revival style, characterized by rough, textured sandstone walls with sloping, multi-leveled red-tiled roofs and Indiana limestone trim, were designed by Klauder between 1921 and 1939. The oldest buildings of the CU-Boulder campus, such as Old Main (1876) and Macky Auditorium (1923), are in the Collegiate Gothic style of many East Coast schools.
Norlin Library, final building designed by Klauder on the CU Boulder campus, 1939

Concordia Seminary

14 buildings including:

Martin Luther Tower

Cornell University

Baker Hall and Baker Tower, 1913^[5]
Founders Hall
Lyon Hall, 1928
McFaddin Hall, 1928
War Memorial, 1928
Mennen Hall, 1931

Franklin and Marshall College

Dietz-Santee Dormitory, 1924
Franklin-Meyran Dormitory, 1924
Biesecker Gymnasium, 1924 - 1925
Hensel Hall, now the Barshinger Center for Musical Arts, 1925 - 1927
Fackenthal Laboratories, now the Harris Center for Business, Government, and Public Policy, 1928 - 1929
Central Heating Plant, 1925
Fackenthal Pool, 1930 - 1931
Franklin and Marshall College Master Plan, 1924 - 1925

University of Pennsylvania

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

University of Pittsburgh

Cathedral of Learning, 1926-1937
Heinz Memorial Chapel, 1933-1938
Stephen Foster Memorial, 1937

Princeton University

15 buildings including:

Walker Hall, 1930
Holder Hall, 1909, Day & Brother.
University Dining Halls, 1916, Day & Klauder.
Joline Hall, 1939

St. Paul's School

Central Heating Plant
Quadrangle Dorms

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 Chicago

Eckhart Hall

Other academic buildings

Peabody Museum, Yale University, 1916–24.
Main Hall and Dormitory, Mercersburg Academy, 1927.
Pendleton Hall, Wellesley College, 1934.
Library, Albion College, 1937.

Non-academic buildings

Langhorne Town Hall, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, 1910.^[6]
First Presbyterian Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1926–30.
Marks Boy Scout Resource Center, Philadelphia, 1929–30.
Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building, Washington, D.C., with Louis A. Simon, 1939.

Gallery

Holder Hall, Princeton University, 1909 (Day & Brother)
Baker Hall and Tower, Cornell University, 1913
Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, 1922
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 1925
The Palestra, University of Pennsylvania, 1926
Rec Hall, Pennsylvania State University, 1927
Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 1926
Main Hall, Mercersburg Academy, 1927
Lyon Hall, Cornell University, 1928
Old Main, Pennsylvania State University, 1930
Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburgh, 1933
Metcalf Research Laboratory, Brown University, 1938
Norlin Library, University of Colorado Boulder, 1939

Bibliography

Klauder, Charles Z.; Wise, Herbert C. (1929). College Architecture in America. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ASIN B002R1JZJ2.

Notes

^ Hewitt, Mark Alan, "Klauder, Charles Z.," Joan Marter, Ed., Grove Encyclopedia of American Art (New York, Oxford: 2011).
^ "Boy Scouts of America Building". Philadelphia Architects and Buildings. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
^ Toker, Franklin (2009). Pittsburgh: A New Portrait. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 327. ISBN 978-0-8229-4371-6.
^ "Charles Klauder". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
^ "3004T-Baker Tower Facility Information". Cornell University Facilities. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
^ "Our History". Historic Langhorne. Retrieved 7 September 2023.

References

Alberts, Robert C. (1987). Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0822962359.