Walter Kilham received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1925, a degree from the Harvard architectural school in 1928, and his Masters in architecture from New York University in 1930. The following summer he spent travelling and doing watercolors and sketches in Europe. He then entered the office of Wallace K. Harrison and worked on the Rockefeller Apartments and the Trylon and Perisphere at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Later he formed his own practice.
After the war, Mr. Kilham joined Benjamin M. Morris and R.B. O'Connor. Their most important commission was the Harvey Firestone Memorial Library at Princeton.
Kilham served as a trustee for the Beaux Arts Institute of Design (1947-49). He was proposed to membership in the National Academy by Edward Shepard Hewitt. To qualify as an academician he submitted ????
