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M. Edwin Green (1896–1985) was an American architect in practice in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from 1922 to 1970. The architectural firm which he cofounded in 1922, Lawrie & Green, was active until 1981.

Life and career
M. Edwin Green was born July 1, 1896 in Kerhonkson, New York. He attended Columbia University and the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating from the latter in 1920 with a BS in architecture. During World War I he served in the United States Army Air Service. He joined the state Bureau of School Buildings, and rose to the rank of assistant director. In 1922 he and engineer Ritchie Lawrie Jr., also a Carnegie graduate, formed the firm of Lawrie & Green, architects and engineers, with offices in Harrisburg. This firm succeeded Lawrie's former practice, Lawrie & Lappley, which designed the Troy Public High School, completed by Lawrie & Green in 1924. Owing in part to Green's work with the state, the firm became well known for the design of schools and other public buildings. Major public projects include the Dauphin County Courthouse, completed in 1942, and the State Museum of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State Archives complex, completed in 1965. Lawrie died in 1962, and Green retired in 1970. Over the years the firm had admitted several employees into the partnership, and the firm was continued by four of these—J. Robert Shaffer, John L. Menger Jr., Robert L. Richey and J. Harlan Lucas—until its sale in 1981 to the Altoona architectural firm Hayes, Large, Suckling & Fruth. Its successor, Hayes Large, maintained a Harrisburg office until shortly before its dissolution in bankruptcy in 2015.

Green's public service began in 1940 when he was appointed to the State Architects Licensure Board. The board elected him as its secretary, an office he filled until he was elected president in 1956. He served on the board until 1960. He was a member of the committee which revised the Harrisburg building code in 1950–51 and of the State Building Regulations Committee from 1952 to 1955. From 1955 he served on the advisory board of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.

Green joined the American Institute of Architects in 1927 as a member of the Southern Pennsylvania, now Central Pennsylvania, chapter. He served variously as chapter president, treasurer and secretary and was president of the Pennsylvania Society of Architects for 1954–55. In 1952 he was elected a Fellow, the second Harrisburg architect to be so honored. He served on the AIA modular standardization committee from 1946 to 1955 and on the judiciary committee from 1964 to 1968.

Lawrie & Green had close ties to state senator M. Harvey Taylor, a powerful political boss and power broker in the region.

Personal life
Green was married in 1922 to Gladys Margaret Wilson, and they had three children. He died March 2, 1985 at the age of 88.

In addition to his official public service, Green was involved in several local institutions. He was variously president of the Art Association of Harrisburg, vice president of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce and trustee of The Kiski School and the Grace Methodist Church of Harrisburg.

Lawrie & Green, 1922–1970

 * Hazleton High School (former), 700 N Wyoming St, Hazleton, Pennsylvania (1926–27, NRHP 2012)
 * North Office Building, 401 North St, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1928–29)
 * Harrisburger Hotel, 200 N 3rd St, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1929–30)
 * Harvey Hall, Clarion University, Clarion, Pennsylvania (1930)
 * Hooker–Fulton Building, 119–125 E Main St, Bradford, Pennsylvania (1930–31)
 * Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, 2300 N Cameron St, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1930–31)
 * YMCA, 701 N Front St, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1931–33)
 * Selinsgrove Area High School, 500 N Broad St, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania (1936)
 * Warren Municipal Building, 318 W 3rd Ave, Warren, Pennsylvania (1936–37)
 * Lewistown Armory, 1101 E Walnut St, Lewistown, Pennsylvania (1938, NRHP 1991)
 * Highspire High School addition, 221 Penn St, Highspire, Pennsylvania (1939, NRHP 1990)
 * Dauphin County Courthouse, 101 Market St, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1941–43, NRHP 1993)
 * Admissions Building, Harrisburg State Hospital, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1950–51)
 * Harrisburg Hospital, 111 S Front St, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1952–53)
 * Chambersburg Area Senior High School, 511 S 6th St, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (1955)
 * Cumberland County Courthouse, 1 Courthouse Sq, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (1960–61)
 * Hunt Library, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1960–61)
 * Pennsylvania State Education Association building, 400 N 3rd St, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1960–61)
 * State Museum of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State Archives, 300 and 350 North St, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1962–65)
 * Weber Chapel Auditorium, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania (1965–66)
 * Indiana County Courthouse, 825 Philadelphia St, Indiana, Pennsylvania (1968–70)

Lawrie & Green, 1970–1981

 * Strawberry Square, 320 Market St, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1975–79)
 * Franklin County Courthouse annex, 157 Lincoln Way E, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (1979)