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Born: 9/5/1876, Died: 1971 Born in Catonsville, MD, to David and Mary Brinkley Fowler, Laurence Hall Fowler graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1898 and launched his education in architecture at Columbia University, graduating in 1902. He spent a year working in New York with Bruce Price and then with Boring and Tilton. Subsequently, he travelled to Europe, where he chiefly toured through France and Italy making measured drawings of famous landmarks. During this time he was also admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and even chose his atelier (Godefroy & Freynet); however he did not attend. Instead, Fowler returned to Baltimore where he entered the popular office of Wyatt & Nolting. By 1906 he had opened his own practice and completed a few commissions such as the third addition to the Safe Deposit & Trust Company Building in Baltimore. He was, however, better known in the Baltimore area for his work on the War Memorial on Gay Street and for the many residences that he completed.Fowler's design sense became apparent in his work in the later communities developed by the Roland Park Company. When the Company developed Guilford and Homeland, they asked Fowler to direct the character and nature of the residential communities. As a result, revival styles such as Norman, Tudor, Spanish Colonial, and American Colonial dominate. Fowler retired from practice in 1945. He was one of the organizers of the Baltimore Museum of Art, and his large collection of rare books and architectural drawings is now held by Johns Hopkins University. His interest in collecting rare architectural books had begun while he was a student at Columbia University where he had access to the Avery Architectural Library. His own collection began during his early trip to Europe. Fowler joined the AIA in 1916 and gained Fellow status in 1937.
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