Archimedes Russell
{{Short description|American architect (1840–1915)}}
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| birth_place = Andover, Massachusetts
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| death_place = Syracuse, New York
| resting_place = Mount Auburn Cemetery
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| significant_buildings = Crouse College, Syracuse University
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Archimedes Russell (June 13,1840 – April 3, 1915) was an American architect most active in the Syracuse, New York area.
Biography
Born in Andover, Massachusetts and trained under local architect Horatio Nelson White, Russell served as a professor of architecture at Syracuse University from 1873 through 1881.{{Cite web|url=https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides_sua/html/sua_russell_a_prt.htm|title=Archimedes Russell Collection An inventory of his collection at the Syracuse University Archives|website=library.syr.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-09-19}}{{cite web|url=http://archives.syr.edu/collections/faculty/russell.html |title=Faculty Papers: Archimedes Russell |accessdate=2023-05-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716231718/http://archives.syr.edu/collections/faculty/russell.html |archivedate=2011-07-16 |publisher=Syracuse University Archives}}
In the course of his career he designed over 850 commercial and civic buildings in the central New York region, including the David H. Burrell Mansion in Little Falls, New York, a Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival stone mansion.
His practice still continues today as King + King Architects, and is New York state’s oldest and the third oldest architectural firm in the United States.{{cite news |last1=Krawczyk |first1=Kathryn |title=How one architecture firm shaped the face of Syracuse University |url=https://dailyorange.com/2018/04/one-architecture-firm-shaped-face-syracuse-university/ |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=The Daily Orange |date=4 April 2018}}{{cite web |title=ABOUT – King + King Architects |url=https://kingarch.com/about/ |website=kingarch.com |access-date=12 December 2024}}
He died in Syracuse on April 3, 1915, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-russell/124445386/ |title=Russell |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=16 |date=1915-04-06 |access-date=2023-05-11 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Work
Russell's work, much of which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, includes:
- Mrs. I. L. Crego House, 1870
- West Sibley Hall, 1870, and McGraw Hall, 1872 at Cornell University
- St Lucy Church, Syracuse, 1873
- First Baptist Church of Camillus, 1879
- Otsego County (New York) Courthouse, 1880
- Crouse College, Syracuse University, 1881
- Third National Bank, aka the Community Chest Building, Syracuse, 1885
- Overlook, Little Falls, New York, 1889
- Whedon–Schumacher House, Syracuse, 1892;{{cite web |last1=May |first1=Rachel |title=Whedon-Schumacher House has been Nominated by State Board for Historic Preservation to be added the State and National Register for Historic Places |url=https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/rachel-may/whedon-schumacher-house-has-been-nominated-state-board |website=New York State Senator Rachel May |publisher=The New York State Senate |access-date=21 August 2023 |date=26 March 2019}} National Register of Historic Places
- West Hill School (Canajoharie, New York), 1891–93
- Dey Brothers Building, Syracuse, 1893, a contributing building in the South Salina Street Downtown Historic District
- Bastable Theatre, Syracuse, 1893{{Cite web|date=2018-02-16|title=Remembering the Bastable fire that forever changed Syracuse|url=https://www.syracuse.com/vintage/2018/02/the_bastable_was_a_fire_trap_remembering_the_fire_which_changed_syracuses_skylin.html|access-date=2022-01-29|website=syracuse|language=en}}
- Central Technical High School, Syracuse, 1900
- Onondaga County Court House, Columbus Circle, Syracuse, 1904-1907 (with murals by William de Leftwich Dodge)
- C. W. Snow and Company Warehouse, 1913
- St. Matthew's Church, East Syracuse, 1915
- St. Anthony of Padua Church, Syracuse
References
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External links
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- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070106144656/http://syracusethenandnow.org/Architects/Russel/Archimedes_Russel.htm Archimedes Russell, at Syracuse Then and Now]}}
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Category:19th-century American architects
Category:People from Andover, Massachusetts
Category:Architects from Syracuse, New York
Category:Architects from Massachusetts