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Taylor & Fisher
Practice information
FoundersR. E. Lee Taylor; D. K. Este Fisher Jr.
Founded1927
Dissolved1978
LocationBaltimore
The Baltimore Trust Company Building, later the Bank of America Building, designed by Taylor & Fisher and Smith & May and completed in 1929.
The Hagerstown City Hall, designed by Taylor & Fisher and Amos J. Klinkhart and completed in 1940.
The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, completed in 1967.

Taylor & Fisher was an American architectural firm active in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1927 by architects R. E. Lee Taylor FAIA (1882–1952) and D. K. Este Fisher Jr. FAIA (1892–1978).

History and partners[edit]

Robert Edward Lee Taylor was born April 9, 1882 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the youngest child of Colonel Walter H. Taylor, aide-de-camp to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and Elizabeth Selden (Saunders) Taylor. He attended Norfolk Academy, the University of Virginia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, graduating from the latter in 1904. He worked for architect Herbert D. Hale, Trowbridge & Livingston and Butler & Rodman in New York City and Wyatt & Nolting in Baltimore before returning to Norfolk in 1906. There, he formed a partnership, Taylor & Hepburn, with his former classmate Andrew H. Taylor. They worked together until 1909, when Hepburn returned to Boston. Taylor then joined the firm of Ferguson & Calrow, which then became Ferguson, Calrow & Taylor. In 1912, with this firm, Taylor completed his first major project, the thirteen-story Royster Building. In 1916 he was invited to lead the Baltimore office of Parker, Thomas & Rice, a Boston and Baltimore firm whose local partner, Thomas, had recently died. In 1924 the Baltimore partnership was expanded to include D. K. Este Fisher Jr., an employee since 1919.[1]

David Kirkpatrick Este Fisher Jr. was born February 2, 1892 in Baltimore. He attended Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1916. He worked for Kenneth M. Murchison in New York City until 1917, when he enlisted in the American Expeditionary Forces at the beginning of America's entrance into World War I. When he left service in 1919 he returned to Baltimore, where he joined Taylor in the office of Parker, Thomas & Rice, becoming his partner in 1924.[1]

In 1927 Taylor and Fisher's Boston partners, J. Harleston Parker and Arthur W. Rice, withdrew from the Baltimore partnership. The two then reestablished the firm as Taylor & Fisher. Taylor died in 1952, and Fisher continued the firm under the same name, forming a new partnership in 1954 with Warren A. Bowersock, formerly an employee of the firm from 1935 to 1949.[2] In 1973 the firm's name was changed from Taylor & Fisher to Taylor, Fisher, Bowersock & Martin, which it remained until Fisher's death in 1978.

Both Taylor and Fisher were active members in the American Institute of Architects, joining in 1916 and 1921, respectively. Both served as president of the Baltimore chapter, and both were elected Fellows, Taylor in 1938 and Fisher in 1946.

Architectural works[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ As associate architect with Smith & May of Baltimore.
  2. ^ Designed in association with Amos J. Klinkhart of Hagerstown.
  3. ^ As associate architect with Helge Westermann of New York City.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Fisher, David Kirkpatrick Este Jr." in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1956): 172.
  2. ^ a b "Bowersock, Warren Austin" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1956): 56.
  3. ^ "City to Decide on Plaque at Meeting" in Hagerstown Morning Herald, October 31, 1939, 12.
  4. ^ a b "Fisher, David Kirkpatrick Este Jr." in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1962): 214.
  5. ^ a b "Fisher, David Kirkpatrick Este Jr." in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1962): 278.
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