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for Harold Van Buren Magonigle
1867 - 1935
Magonigle was raised in New York and educated in the New York public school system. He began his career as an architect when he entered the office of Vaux and Radford in 1881. In the following decade he worked in the architectural offices of Charles C. Haight and McKim, Mead & White, and in 1891 he joined the firm Rotch & Tilden in Boston. In 1894 he won the Rotch Travelling Scholarship and travelled to Europe where he pursued his studies at the American Academy in Rome.
Upon returning to the United States in 1896 Magonigle returned to the office of McKim, Mead & White, but within a year had set up his own architectural practice. During the first quarter of the twentieth century his career flourished and he was commissioned to design such buildings as the United States Embassy in Tokyo, the Gates Avenue Court House, Brooklyn, NY, as well as numerous school buildings and private residences. He became renown for his monuments and designed the National Maine Monument for New York, the McKinley National Memorial for Canton, Ohio, and the Liberty Memorial for Kansas City, Missouri. Throughout most of his career he was an active member and fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Upon returning to the United States in 1896 Magonigle returned to the office of McKim, Mead & White, but within a year had set up his own architectural practice. During the first quarter of the twentieth century his career flourished and he was commissioned to design such buildings as the United States Embassy in Tokyo, the Gates Avenue Court House, Brooklyn, NY, as well as numerous school buildings and private residences. He became renown for his monuments and designed the National Maine Monument for New York, the McKinley National Memorial for Canton, Ohio, and the Liberty Memorial for Kansas City, Missouri. Throughout most of his career he was an active member and fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
