George D. Brown (architect)
{{short description|American architect}}
George Dewey Brown (April 6, 1898 – July 27, 1968) was a 20th-century American architect who designed several historically significant bus stations for Greyhound Lines, including the Greyhound Bus Depot (Columbia, South Carolina){{cite web|title=Asset Detail: Greyhound Bus Depot, Columbia South Carolina|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/82005383|website=NPGallery Digital Asset Management System|publisher=U.S. Government, National Park Service|accessdate=9 April 2018|language=en}} and the Atlantic Greyhound Bus Terminal station in Savannah, Georgia.{{cite web|title=Atlantic Greyhound Bus Terminal|url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/16000837.htm|website=www.nps.gov|accessdate=9 April 2018}} Both of these stations are listed on the National Register of Historic Places for their architecture.
Biography
Brown was born in 1898 in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania,U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 the son of Irish immigrant James Brown, a blacksmith, and Mary Kemerer Brown.1900 United States Federal Census Practicing in Charleston, West Virginia, he designed stations in the Streamline Moderne style.{{cite book|last1=Wrenick|first1=Frank E.|title=The Streamline Era Greyhound Terminals: The Architecture of W.S. Arrasmith|date=2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786425501|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPOn59uwAYUC&dq=George+D+Brown+Architect&pg=PA49|accessdate=9 April 2018|language=en}} He also designed the Greyhound station for state capitols in Charleston, West Virginia{{cite book|last1=Longstreth|first1=Richard W.|title=The Buildings of Main Street: A Guide to American Commercial Architecture|date=2000|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780742502796|page=50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hAnVATBChUoC&dq=%22George+D.+Brown%22+department+store&pg=PA50|accessdate=9 April 2018|language=en}} and on 412 E. Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia.{{cite web|title=A Guide to the Richmond (Va.), Bureau of Permits and Inspections, Building permit architectural blueprints and specifications, 1907-1976Richmond (Va.), Bureau of Permits and Inspections, Building permit architectural blueprints and specifications, 1907-194930150, 30745, 38536|url=https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi01216.xml|website=ead.lib.virginia.edu|accessdate=10 April 2018|language=en|quote=1941 Transportation - Permit Number: 22083A, Bus Terminal Building for Greyhound Lines, Address: 412 E. Broad St., 1935 Drawn by: George D. Brown, Architect, Charlestown, W. Va.; Contractor: N/A; Commissioned by: Richmond Land Corp. (Greyhound Bus Lines); Notes: Control Number 2072 Transportation - Permit Number: 23115A, Bus Terminal, 9th and Broad St. [Alterations], Address: 816 - 822 E. Broad St., 1936 Drawn by: Allen J. Saville, Inc., Engineers; Contractor: N/A; Commissioned by: Broad - Wall Corp.; Notes:}}
He died in Charleston, West Virginia, in 1968.West Virginia, U.S., Deaths Index, 1853-1973
Streamline Moderne buildings designed by George D. Brown
Image:Greyhound Station Columbia SC LOC 570829cu.jpg|Greyhound Bus Depot (Columbia, South Carolina)
Image:NORTHWEST (FRONT) FACADE, NEON SIGN, EVENING VIEW, LOOKING NORTH - Greyhound Bus Station, 1200 Blanding Street, Columbia, Richland County, SC HABS SC,40-COLUM,16-6.tif| Neon sign detail, Columbia, South Carolina
Image:NORTHWEST (FRONT) FACADE, LOOKING NORTH - Greyhound Bus Station, 1200 Blanding Street, Columbia, Richland County, SC HABS SC,40-COLUM,16-4.tif| Northwest Facade, Columbia Greyhound Station
Image:Atlantic Greyhound Bus Terminal, Savannah, GA, US.jpg|Greyhound Bus Station Atlantic Greyhound Bus Station, Savannah, Georgia
Image:Greyhound_Bus_Station,_Portsmouth_Ohio,_c._1940.png|Greyhound Bus Station, Portsmouth Ohio (demolished)
Image:ELEVATIONS- FRONT AND SIDE, AND PERSPECTIVE - Greyhound Bus Depot, 1129-1135 Gallia Street, Portsmouth, Scioto County, OH HABS OHIO,73-PORT,8-3.tif|Greyhound Bus Station, Drawings, Portsmouth, Ohio,
[https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.oh1555.photos?st=gallery%7Cviews Additional drawings, Library of Congress]
Image:Greyhound_Charleston_WV_1940s_postcard.png|Greyhound station Charleston, West Virginia, c.1940
Image:New Greyhound Bus Station at Charleston, W. Va (83150).jpg|Greyhound Bus Station at Charleston, W. Va, side view
Image:Streamline Moderne-style Greyhound Bus Station in Huntington, West Virginia LCCN2015631799.tif|Greyhound Station Huntington, West Virginia{{cite web|title=West Virginia Greyhound Bus Stations {{!}} RoadsideArchitecture.com|url=http://www.roadarch.com/bus/wv.html|website=www.roadarch.com|accessdate=10 April 2018}}
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/19211803@N00/6949924760/ Interior views]
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Category:Architects from Charleston, West Virginia
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Category:People from Mercer County, Pennsylvania
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