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Dwight James Baum

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{{Short description|American architect (1886–1939)}}

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Dwight James Baum (June 24, 1886 – December 14, 1939) was an American architect most active in New York and in Sarasota, Florida. His work includes Cà d'Zan, the Sarasota Times Building (1925), Sarasota County Courthouse (1926), early residences in Temple Terrace, Florida, Sarasota County Courthouse (1927), Pinecroft, West Side YMCA on 63rd Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue, Columbus Circle (Syracuse, NY) (1934) and Hendricks Memorial Chapel.

Biography

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Baum was born in Newville, New York (near Utica) and moved to Syracuse as a young man, eventually graduating from Syracuse University in 1909 with an architecture degree. He worked for nationally known firms Boring and Tilton and Stanford White before venturing out with his own residential design firm around 1912.

A 1922 visit to Florida led to an important commission from John Nicholas Ringling, the 56-room mansion and estate that the Ringlings dubbed Cà d'Zan, which is now on the grounds of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.{{Cite web |title=Architecture |url=https://www.ringling.org/explore/architecture/ |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=The Ringling |language=en-US}} During the 1920s Florida land boom, Baum designed a half-dozen significant civic buildings and several houses in Sarasota, and at least one residence in Tampa, all in the Mediterranean Revival Style.

In 1926 Baum designed forty two Mediterranean Revival style houses of varying sizes in the City of Temple Terrace, Florida, this is thought to be the largest collection of his work in the Southeast. He also designed Sunset Hill for Mrs. Eugene D. Stocker at Warren, New York in 1923-1924.{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=101855|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Sunset Hill|date=October 2006|accessdate=2010-01-14|author=Raymond W. Smith|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172533/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=101855|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}} It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. During the Depression, Baum became involved with historic preservation issues, becoming involved with Good Housekeeping Magazine as consulting architect, and as designer of their building exhibit at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

His later work includes buildings at his alma mater, Syracuse University (notably the focal point of the campus plan, the Hendricks Chapel, designed with John Russell Pope), and the pedestal for V. Renzo Baldi's statue of Columbus in the city's Columbus Circle.

Baum was distantly related to author and designer L. Frank Baum.

Work

Some of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His work was also part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921442 |title=Dwight James Baum |work=Olympedia |accessdate=11 August 2020}}

Baum's work includes:

(not chronological)

References

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Bibliography

  • Corbett, Harvey Wiley, et al. The Work of Dwight James Baum, Architect. New York: 1927.
  • Morrison, William A, editor; Ron McCarty, intro. [http://www.acanthuspress.com/pc-52-6-the-work-of-dwight-james-baum.aspx The Work of Dwight James Baum.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707075848/http://www.acanthuspress.com/pc-52-6-the-work-of-dwight-james-baum.aspx |date=2011-07-07 }} New York: Acanthus Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-926494-48-0}}

External links

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  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/realestate/streetscapes-west-side-y-5-west-63rd-street-urban-scale-suggestion-italian-hill.html "Streetscapes/The West Side Y, at 5 West 63rd Street; Urban Scale, and a Suggestion of Italian Hill Town"] – The New York Times, June 16, 2002

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Category:1886 births

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Category:20th-century American architects

Category:Art competitors at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Category:Syracuse University School of Architecture alumni

Category:Politicians from Herkimer County, New York

Category:People from Sarasota, Florida