Normand Smith Patton
{{short description|American architect}}
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|nationality=American
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|birth_place=Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1915|3|15|1852|7|10}}
|death_place=Chicago, IL
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- Armour Institute, 3300 S. Federal St., Chicago, IL, with Reynolds Fisher (1892-1893, extant.)
- The Chicago Academy of Sciences, 2001 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, With Reynolds Fisher (pictured above, 1893, extant.{{cite book |title= Chicago at the Turn of the Century in Photographs - 122 Historic Views from the Collections of the Chicago Historical Society|last= Viskochil |first= Larry A. |year= 1984|publisher=Dover Publications, Inc. |location= Mineola|page= 3 }})
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Normand Smith Patton (July 10, 1852 – March 15, 1915) was an American architect based in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C.
Early life
Patton was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of the Reverend William Weston and Mary Boardman Patton (née Smith).Marquis, Albert Nelson. The Book of Chicagoans, ([https://books.google.com/books?id=riITAAAAYAAJ&dq=Normand+Smith+Patton&pg=PA527 Google Books]), A.N. Marquis, 1911, p. 527. He received a BA from Amherst College in 1873 and an MA in 1876, also from Amherst. He also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while he pursued his graduate studies at Amherst.Lathrop, Alan K. and Firth, Bob. Churches of Minnesota: An Illustrated Guide, ([https://books.google.com/books?id=Xt-hRnEhEEgC&dq=Normand+Smith+Patton&pg=PA297 Google Books]), University of Minnesota Press, 2003, p. 297, ({{ISBN|0816629099}}).
Architectural career
=Practices=
Patton began practicing architecture in Chicago in 1874, leaving in 1876 for Washington D.C. where he remained until 1883. He then returned to Chicago{{cite book |title= Biographical Record of the Alumni and Non-Graduates of Amherst College ('72-'96) - The Third Quarter-Century|last= Montague |first= M.L. |year= 1901|publisher=Carpenter and Morehouse, Printers |location= Amherst|page= 26 }} and shortly thereafter opened a practice with another architect, C.E. Randall. Randall died in 1885 but Patton's firm survived under various incarnations (as Patton & Fisher, then Patton, Fisher and Miller, then Patton & Miller,See Reynolds Fisher and Grant C. Miller.{{cite book |title= Biographical Record of the Alumni and Non-Graduates of Amherst College ('72-'96) - The Third Quarter-Century|last= Montague |first= M.L. |year= 1901|publisher=Carpenter and Morehouse, Printers |location= Amherst|page= 458 }} then Patton, Holmes & Flinn {{cite web
| title = Search results for Normand S. Patton, Holmes and Flinn Architects, Chicago, Illinois
| publisher = Carleton Digital Collections
| url = http://contentdm.carleton.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/Archives&CISOBOX1=Normand+S.+Patton%2C+Holmes+and+Flinn+Architects%2C+Chicago%2C+Illinois
| access-date = 2011-12-17}}) until his death. As Patton & Miller, it designed over 100 Carnegie libraries around the country, making a specialty of designing libraries and other educational buildings.
{{cite book
|url= https://archive.org/details/freetoallcarnegi0000vans
|url-access= registration
|access-date= 2011-06-13
|page= [https://archive.org/details/freetoallcarnegi0000vans/page/60 60]
|title= Free to All: Carnegie Libraries & American Culture, 1890-1920
|author= Abigail Ayres Van Slyck
|publisher= University of Chicago Press
|year= 1995
|isbn= 978-0-226-85031-3
}}
During his time as a Chicago architect Patton maintained a residence at 225 Grove in the west suburban community of Oak Park (demolished) with his wife Fanny Maria (née Keep, 1856–1895) and their four children. His office was on South Dearborn Street in Chicago. In 1899 he was the president of the Chicago Chapter of the Illinois Institute of Architects.{{cite book |title= John Keep of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, 1660-1676, and his descendants|last= Best |first= Frank E. |year= 1899|publisher=Frank E. Best |location= Chicago|page= 171 }}
=Works=
File:IIT Main Building.jpg{{cite web| url=http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=all&CISORESTMP=results.php&CISOVIEWTMP=item_viewer.php&CISOMODE=grid&CISOGRID=thumbnail%2CA%2C1%3Btitle%2CA%2C1%3Bcreato%2CA%2C0%3Brelati%2C200%2C0%3Bnone%2CA%2C0%3B20%3Btitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOBIB=title%2CA%2C1%2CN%3Bsubjec%2CA%2C0%2CN%3Bdescri%2C200%2C0%2CN%3Bnone%2CA%2C0%2CN%3Bnone%2CA%2C0%2CN%3B20%3Btitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOTHUMB=20+%284x5%29%3Btitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOTITLE=20%3Btitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOHIERA=20%3Bsubjec%2Ctitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOSUPPRESS=1&CISOPARM=%2Fcasc+%2Fhalic+%2Fmagic+%2Fmqc+%3ACISOSEARCHALL%3APatton+Fisher| title=The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago Commercial, Residential, & Landscape Architecture, Pre-WWII | publisher=The Art Institute of Chicago| access-date=2011-12-12}}]]Patton's firm specialized in public buildings and from 1896 to 1898 he was the architect for the Chicago Board of Education. Other noted architects from the period affiliated with the school board included August Fiedler (1893-1896), Robert Seyfarth (1895-?) and William B. Mundie (1898-1904). Patton and his firm were responsible for many public school buildings in Chicago and in other cities. He is responsible for the Fiske building on the Wichita State University campus.{{cite web|last1=Price|first1=Jay|title=Past and Present: Wichita State's Oldest Building|url=http://kmuw.org/post/past-and-present-wichita-states-oldest-building|website=KMUW|access-date=17 October 2014}} He also designed libraries at Oberlin College (1905-1908,{{cite web
| title = Records of the Oberlin College Library (Group 16) - Administrative History
| publisher = Oberlin College Archives
| year = 1951
| url = http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/resources/architecture/group16.html
| access-date = 2011-12-16}} Indiana University, and Augustana College."[http://hcap.artstor.org/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=p140 Denkmann Hall]", The Council of Independent Colleges, Historic Campus Architecture Project, last updated November 2006, accessed December 18, 2011. He was also responsible for the campus plan of Carleton College. He designed the Skinner Memorial Chapel at Carleton College but died before its completion.
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Category:Architects from Chicago
Category:19th-century American architects