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Born: 1866, Died: 1946 Chiefly known as a Rochester, NY, architect, Claude F. Bragdon was a participant in the competition for the design of the University of Pittsburgh campus, which is represented in the Warren Powers Laird Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Archives. Furthermore, in the early years of the twentieth century, he was part of the annual T-Square Club/Philadelphia Chapter AIA exhibitions in Phiadelphia.Bragdon was born in Oberlin, OH, and gained his architectural training through office work. By 1889 he had relocated to New York, where he was employed initially by Bruce Price before moving to the office of Green & Wicks in Buffalo, NY. By 1891 he had launched his own office in Rochester. Bragdon's first partnership (Gordon & Bragdon) found him allied with Edwin S. Gordon and William H. Orchard. This partnership dispersed in 1895, leaving Bragdon free to travel in Europe. Upon his return to Rochester, Bragdon involved himself with J. Con Hillman (Bragdon & Hillman), but this partnership also dissolved by around 1904 before he resigned from practice in 1923 to relocate to New York City and a second career designing theatrical sets, . Bragdon also was a well-respected architectural theorist whose publications certainly affected the course of American architecture. He contributed many articles to professional journals and 16 books, including several published by his own enterprise, Manas Press.
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