User:JPRiley/Bauer

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Old St. Patrick's Church in Chicago, designed by Carter & Bauer and completed in 1856.
The Illinois Staats-Zeitung Building in Chicago, designed by Bauer & Loebnitz and completed in 1873.

Augustus Bauer FAIA (June 16, 1827 –

Life and career[edit]

Augustus Bauer was born June 16, 1827 in Offenbach am Main, then within of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and now within the German state of Hesse. His father, Jacob Bauer, was a teacher. Bauer was educated in architecture in the polytechnic school of Darmstadt and immigrated to the United States in 1851. He worked for New York City architect John B. Snook until circa 1852, when he joined the office of Carstensen & Gildemeister to assist in the design and construction of the New York Crystal Palace (1853). After the completion of that project he moved to Chicago, where he joined the office of Asher Carter, an architect who had come to Chicago in 1849. They formed the partnership of Carter & Bauer in 1854. Their major surviving work is Old St. Patrick's Church (1856), the oldest extant church in Chicago. They dissolved their partnership in 1863. Bauer practiced independently until 1866, when he formed the partnership of Bauer & Loebnitz with Robert Loebnitz. Bauer suffered financially after the Great Chicago Fire as he had heavily invested in a number of local insurance companies which were bankrupted in the aftermath.

Nonetheless Bauer & Loebnitz had a large part in the rebuilding, and were responsible for the Magie Building (1872) and other projects. Bauer & Loebnitz dissolved their partnership in 1874, and Bauer again practiced alone until 1881, when he former Bauer & Hill with Henry W. Hill.

Architectural works[edit]

Carter & Bauer, 1854–1863[edit]

Bauer & Loebnitz, 1866–1874[edit]

  • Safety Deposit Building, 116-120 W Randolph St, Chicago (1871, burned same year)[2]
  • Fidelity Savings Bank and Safe Depository Building, 116-120 W Randolph St, Chicago (1872, demolished 1924)[3]
  • Illinois Staats-Zeitung Building, 184 W Washington St, Chicago (1873, demolished)[2]
  • Peter Schuttler II house, 1028 W Adams St, Chicago (1874, demolished)[4]

Bauer & Hill, 1881–1894[edit]

Hill & Woltersdorf, 1894–1914[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Built to exhibit the Gettysburg Cyclorama.
  2. ^ Parfitt Brothers of Brooklyn, architects; Bauer & Hill, associate architects.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c AIA Guide to Chicago, ed. Alice Sinkevich (Orlando: Harcourt, 2004)
  2. ^ a b c Frank A. Randall, History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949)
  3. ^ a b Robert Craik McLean, "Some Works of Woltersdorf and Bernhard" in Western Architect 31, no. 7 (July, 1922): 87-89.
  4. ^ Chicago Architecture 1872–1922: Birth of a Metropolis, ed. John Zukowsky (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2000)
  5. ^ a b Industrial Chicago: The Building Interests (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891)
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