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Born: 1880, Died: 1953 Clarence DeArmond was born in Beverly, NJ, the son of William Chambers and Mary Caroline Baker DeArmond. He graduated from the William Penn Charter School in 1899 and from the University of Pennsylvania with his B. S. in Architecture in 1903. DeArmond represents the last class of University of Pennsylvania graduates who did not come under the influence of Paul P. Cret. Instead the Beaux-Arts mentor for the Class of 1903 would have been Philadelphian Paul A. Davis, who had studied at the Ecole in Paris and who would be instrumental in hiring Cret for the University of Pennsylvania.DeArmond received the bulk of his architectural training with Frank Miles Day, for whom he worked as draftsman from 1903 until 1907. During his tenure with Day, DeArmond was involved in the design of buildings for the University of Pennsylvania (probably Weightman Hall and Franklin Field) and several residences. Leaving Day's office in 1907, DeArmond joined Philadelphia engineer M. Ward Easby; but he remained with Easby only one year. In 1908 DeArmond established his own firm with William Penn Charter School graduate Duffield Ashmead, Jr., with offices at 618 Chestnut Street. In 1911 the two partners were joined by DeArmond's classmate from the University, George H. Bickley, who had spent four years following his graduation from University at the Ecole in Paris, followed by three years with Horace Trumbauer's firm. Bickley died in 1938, and in 1940 Ashmead fell seriously ill. The outbreak of the second World War dealt the final blow to DeArmond's independent career. In 1944 he entered the District Engineer's Office in Philadelphia for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He remained there until March, 1950, when he retired. From 1944 until 1946 he had chiefly been involved in the development of the Hog Island site, but in 1946 he began serving as Architectural Engineer in connection with the production of plans and submissions required for the Veterans Administration Hospital being erected near Wilmington, DE, working with Massena & DuPont, architects/engineers for the project. DeArmond's retirement in 1950 was, in fact, short-lived because in December of that year he was re-employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work on master planning for military construction projects in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. When he died in 1953, he was still in the employ of the Army Corps. DeArmond joined the Architectural Society of the University of Pennsylvania in 1902, the Philadelphia Chapter of the AIA in 1916, and the national AIA in 1924.
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