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Walker O. Cain was a prize-winning American architect.

Early life and education

Cleveland, Ohio

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and attended Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...

for five years (1932–1936). In 1937 he went on to study at Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau

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, France, where he was a recipient of the Schweinfurth Scholarship.

In 1939 he won the Henry Adams Prize from the American Institute of Architects. In 1938 and 1939, he won honorable mention in architecture in the competition for the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome

American Academy in Rome

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.

In 1940 Cain returned to the United States to study architecture at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

. In that year he won the Rome Prize

Rome Prize

The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists and to 15 scholars The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists...

. Upon graduation from Princeton with a masters degree he moved to New York City and joined the firm of McKim, Mead, and White

McKim, Mead, and White

McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm at the turn of the twentieth century and in the history of American architecture. The firm's founding partners were Charles Follen McKim , William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White...

. In 1961 that firm was superseded by Steinman, Corrigill, Cain, and White; then Steinmann, Cain, and White;. By 1971 the firm was superseded by Walker O. Cain Associates based in New York where Cain was a senior partner. Cain also served as chairman of the board of the American Academy in Rome

American Academy in Rome

from 1974 to 1984.

Notable works

Cain's notable building designs include St. Vartan Cathedral, the Armenian church at Second Ave. and 34th Street in Manhattan

Manhattan

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(1963–1967); the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology (1964), in Washington, D.C.; the Art Museum

Princeton University Art Museum

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, McCormick Hall, Jadwin Gymnasium

Jadwin Gymnasium

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, Caldwell Field House, and the Computing Center at Princeton University

Princeton University

in Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton, New Jersey

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; as well as the Mickel Library of Converse College

Converse College

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in Spartanburg, South Carolina

Spartanburg, South Carolina

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. The firm that was to become Walker O. Cain Associates (John Faron) designed the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library of Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

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in Brunswick, Maine

Brunswick, Maine

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around 1965. Members of the firm also designed the Casco Bank and Trust Company building in Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

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by 1970, the Maine State Museum in Augusta, Maine

Augusta, Maine

Augusta is the capital of the US state of Maine, county seat of Kennebec County, and center of population for Maine. The city's population was 19,136 at the 2010 census, making it the third-smallest state capital after Montpelier, Vermont and Pierre, South Dakota...

in 1971, and the Maynard Center for staff housing at Brooklyn Hospital Center

Brooklyn Hospital Center

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in 1976.

External links

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0D81438F937A35755C0A965958260
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/facts/architects/
http://www.armenianchurch.net/diocese/cathedral/

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