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for Glenn Brown
English, 1854 - 1932
Brown received his undergraduate education at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia; his training in architecture was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in 1877. His first professional employment was with Orlando W. Norcross, assisting in the completion of Henry Hobson Richardson's Cheney Building in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1880 Brown opened his own office in Washington, D.C.
Over the following years he established a distinguished practice and played a prominent role in improving the public art and architecture of the capitol. In 1890 he designed the National Union Fire Insurance Building in Washington; in 1894 he restored the interior of the eighteenth century Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia. In the first years of the twentieth century he was instrumental in forming the McMillan Commission, which provided a systematic plan for the development of the City of Washington.
Brown was well known as an author as well as an architect; his two volume History of the United States Capitol was published in 1903.
Over the following years he established a distinguished practice and played a prominent role in improving the public art and architecture of the capitol. In 1890 he designed the National Union Fire Insurance Building in Washington; in 1894 he restored the interior of the eighteenth century Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia. In the first years of the twentieth century he was instrumental in forming the McMillan Commission, which provided a systematic plan for the development of the City of Washington.
Brown was well known as an author as well as an architect; his two volume History of the United States Capitol was published in 1903.
