Charles Julian Clarke was a noted Kentucky architect.
This is an obituary from the April 1908 Quarterly Bulletin of the American Institute of Architects:
C. J. Clarke, F.A.I.A.
Charles Julian Clarke was born at Locust Grove, in Franklin County, Kentucky, on December the Sixteenth, Eighteen hundred and Thirty-six.
His grandfather, Matthew Clarke, fought in the Revolutionary War, and moved to Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1796. Dr. John Julian, a maternal ancestor, was likewise a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Clarke's father, Joseph Clarke, was a soldier in the War of 1812.
C. J. Clarke, in his early childhood, attended a school conducted by Dr. Stuart Robinson, and later continued his studies under the instruction of Professor B. B. Sayre. His technical education was pursued under the guidance of Dr. E. A. Grant, for many years one of Louisville's most prominent educators.
About the time he attained his majority, Mr. Clarke went to Mississippi and engaged in engineering work on the levees, in which he was employed for several years, returning home to accept a position in the office of the Adjutant-General at Frankfort. He removed with that office from Frankfort to Louisville when the transfer was made during the war. Subsequently he became connected with the office of Bradshaw & Bro., architects, where he remained for about three years, during one year of which he was a member of the firm. He afterwards engaged in business for himself as a practicing architect, and in 1891, with Mr. Arthur Loomis, formed the partnership of Clarke & Loomis, which continued to exist during the remainder of his life.
His tastes and conceptions were in the direction of the classical, and he believed that an edifice should be typical of the purpose for which it was erected. He understood the quality and character of the work he desired, and gently, but firmly and insistently, strove for the achievement of his high ideals and developed them in brick and stone.
For a man of his long experience, broad knowledge and high attainments, Mr. Clarke was exceptionally modest and retiring in his intercourse with his professional friends; yet his character was of the strongest; his principles of the firmest; his ideals of the loftiest. His mind well stored with knowledge, his opinions carried with them the weight of more than half a century of successful professional work - a work in which he was actively engaged until within a few hours of his life's end. Mr. Clarke died March 10, 1908.
Mr. Clarke was elected a member of the Western Association of Architects in 1884, and by act of consolidation of the Western Association with the American Institute of Architects in 1889 became a Fellow of this latter organization, taking an active part in its reorganization. He was a charter member of the Engineers and Architects Club, becoming its fifth President in 1896, and he was the first President of the Louisville Chapter American Institute of Architects, which was formed March, 1908, but he did not live to assume its duties.
(Collected and forwarded by Mr. Mason Maury, Secretary, Louisville Chapter.)
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This is an obituary for Charles Julian Clarke:
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR CHARLES J. CLARKE.
The funeral services of Charles J. Clarke, who died Tuesday morning at his apartments at the Willard _______ were held yesterday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. E.[sic] Grant, 832 Second street, and the body was taken to Frankfort for burial. Mr. Clarke was known as one of Louisville's foremost architects. Two sisters, Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Robert H. Parker, survive.
A Tribute.
The death of Charles J. Clarke is a distinct loss to the city of Louisville. Mr. Clarke was an able and distinguished man in his profession, and he has left many magnificent structures standing as monuments of his skill and genius as an architect in this city. Mr. Clarke was a man of the loftiest character-plain, modest and unassuming; of the highest honor and of the strictest integrity in every respect.
He lived the allotted time of man on earth and after a life, blameless and full of good deeds and sacrifice for others, he has been gathered to his fathers, leaving to his sorrowing friends who survive him the rich heritage of a good name, and to his brother architects an illustrious example of professional honor and unswerving rectitude in all the relations of life.
J.H.L.
This is an obituary from the April 1908 Quarterly Bulletin of the American Institute of Architects:
C. J. Clarke, F.A.I.A.
Charles Julian Clarke was born at Locust Grove, in Franklin County, Kentucky, on December the Sixteenth, Eighteen hundred and Thirty-six.
His grandfather, Matthew Clarke, fought in the Revolutionary War, and moved to Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1796. Dr. John Julian, a maternal ancestor, was likewise a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Clarke's father, Joseph Clarke, was a soldier in the War of 1812.
C. J. Clarke, in his early childhood, attended a school conducted by Dr. Stuart Robinson, and later continued his studies under the instruction of Professor B. B. Sayre. His technical education was pursued under the guidance of Dr. E. A. Grant, for many years one of Louisville's most prominent educators.
About the time he attained his majority, Mr. Clarke went to Mississippi and engaged in engineering work on the levees, in which he was employed for several years, returning home to accept a position in the office of the Adjutant-General at Frankfort. He removed with that office from Frankfort to Louisville when the transfer was made during the war. Subsequently he became connected with the office of Bradshaw & Bro., architects, where he remained for about three years, during one year of which he was a member of the firm. He afterwards engaged in business for himself as a practicing architect, and in 1891, with Mr. Arthur Loomis, formed the partnership of Clarke & Loomis, which continued to exist during the remainder of his life.
His tastes and conceptions were in the direction of the classical, and he believed that an edifice should be typical of the purpose for which it was erected. He understood the quality and character of the work he desired, and gently, but firmly and insistently, strove for the achievement of his high ideals and developed them in brick and stone.
For a man of his long experience, broad knowledge and high attainments, Mr. Clarke was exceptionally modest and retiring in his intercourse with his professional friends; yet his character was of the strongest; his principles of the firmest; his ideals of the loftiest. His mind well stored with knowledge, his opinions carried with them the weight of more than half a century of successful professional work - a work in which he was actively engaged until within a few hours of his life's end. Mr. Clarke died March 10, 1908.
Mr. Clarke was elected a member of the Western Association of Architects in 1884, and by act of consolidation of the Western Association with the American Institute of Architects in 1889 became a Fellow of this latter organization, taking an active part in its reorganization. He was a charter member of the Engineers and Architects Club, becoming its fifth President in 1896, and he was the first President of the Louisville Chapter American Institute of Architects, which was formed March, 1908, but he did not live to assume its duties.
(Collected and forwarded by Mr. Mason Maury, Secretary, Louisville Chapter.)
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This is an obituary for Charles Julian Clarke:
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR CHARLES J. CLARKE.
The funeral services of Charles J. Clarke, who died Tuesday morning at his apartments at the Willard _______ were held yesterday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. E.[sic] Grant, 832 Second street, and the body was taken to Frankfort for burial. Mr. Clarke was known as one of Louisville's foremost architects. Two sisters, Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Robert H. Parker, survive.
A Tribute.
The death of Charles J. Clarke is a distinct loss to the city of Louisville. Mr. Clarke was an able and distinguished man in his profession, and he has left many magnificent structures standing as monuments of his skill and genius as an architect in this city. Mr. Clarke was a man of the loftiest character-plain, modest and unassuming; of the highest honor and of the strictest integrity in every respect.
He lived the allotted time of man on earth and after a life, blameless and full of good deeds and sacrifice for others, he has been gathered to his fathers, leaving to his sorrowing friends who survive him the rich heritage of a good name, and to his brother architects an illustrious example of professional honor and unswerving rectitude in all the relations of life.
J.H.L.
Charles Julian Clarke was a noted Kentucky architect.
This is an obituary from the April 1908 Quarterly Bulletin of the American Institute of Architects:
C. J. Clarke, F.A.I.A.
Charles Julian Clarke was born at Locust Grove, in Franklin County, Kentucky, on December the Sixteenth, Eighteen hundred and Thirty-six.
His grandfather, Matthew Clarke, fought in the Revolutionary War, and moved to Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1796. Dr. John Julian, a maternal ancestor, was likewise a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Clarke's father, Joseph Clarke, was a soldier in the War of 1812.
C. J. Clarke, in his early childhood, attended a school conducted by Dr. Stuart Robinson, and later continued his studies under the instruction of Professor B. B. Sayre. His technical education was pursued under the guidance of Dr. E. A. Grant, for many years one of Louisville's most prominent educators.
About the time he attained his majority, Mr. Clarke went to Mississippi and engaged in engineering work on the levees, in which he was employed for several years, returning home to accept a position in the office of the Adjutant-General at Frankfort. He removed with that office from Frankfort to Louisville when the transfer was made during the war. Subsequently he became connected with the office of Bradshaw & Bro., architects, where he remained for about three years, during one year of which he was a member of the firm. He afterwards engaged in business for himself as a practicing architect, and in 1891, with Mr. Arthur Loomis, formed the partnership of Clarke & Loomis, which continued to exist during the remainder of his life.
His tastes and conceptions were in the direction of the classical, and he believed that an edifice should be typical of the purpose for which it was erected. He understood the quality and character of the work he desired, and gently, but firmly and insistently, strove for the achievement of his high ideals and developed them in brick and stone.
For a man of his long experience, broad knowledge and high attainments, Mr. Clarke was exceptionally modest and retiring in his intercourse with his professional friends; yet his character was of the strongest; his principles of the firmest; his ideals of the loftiest. His mind well stored with knowledge, his opinions carried with them the weight of more than half a century of successful professional work - a work in which he was actively engaged until within a few hours of his life's end. Mr. Clarke died March 10, 1908.
Mr. Clarke was elected a member of the Western Association of Architects in 1884, and by act of consolidation of the Western Association with the American Institute of Architects in 1889 became a Fellow of this latter organization, taking an active part in its reorganization. He was a charter member of the Engineers and Architects Club, becoming its fifth President in 1896, and he was the first President of the Louisville Chapter American Institute of Architects, which was formed March, 1908, but he did not live to assume its duties.
(Collected and forwarded by Mr. Mason Maury, Secretary, Louisville Chapter.)
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This is an obituary for Charles Julian Clarke:
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR CHARLES J. CLARKE.
The funeral services of Charles J. Clarke, who died Tuesday morning at his apartments at the Willard _______ were held yesterday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. E.[sic] Grant, 832 Second street, and the body was taken to Frankfort for burial. Mr. Clarke was known as one of Louisville's foremost architects. Two sisters, Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Robert H. Parker, survive.
A Tribute.
The death of Charles J. Clarke is a distinct loss to the city of Louisville. Mr. Clarke was an able and distinguished man in his profession, and he has left many magnificent structures standing as monuments of his skill and genius as an architect in this city. Mr. Clarke was a man of the loftiest character-plain, modest and unassuming; of the highest honor and of the strictest integrity in every respect.
He lived the allotted time of man on earth and after a life, blameless and full of good deeds and sacrifice for others, he has been gathered to his fathers, leaving to his sorrowing friends who survive him the rich heritage of a good name, and to his brother architects an illustrious example of professional honor and unswerving rectitude in all the relations of life.
J.H.L.
This is an obituary from the April 1908 Quarterly Bulletin of the American Institute of Architects:
C. J. Clarke, F.A.I.A.
Charles Julian Clarke was born at Locust Grove, in Franklin County, Kentucky, on December the Sixteenth, Eighteen hundred and Thirty-six.
His grandfather, Matthew Clarke, fought in the Revolutionary War, and moved to Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1796. Dr. John Julian, a maternal ancestor, was likewise a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Clarke's father, Joseph Clarke, was a soldier in the War of 1812.
C. J. Clarke, in his early childhood, attended a school conducted by Dr. Stuart Robinson, and later continued his studies under the instruction of Professor B. B. Sayre. His technical education was pursued under the guidance of Dr. E. A. Grant, for many years one of Louisville's most prominent educators.
About the time he attained his majority, Mr. Clarke went to Mississippi and engaged in engineering work on the levees, in which he was employed for several years, returning home to accept a position in the office of the Adjutant-General at Frankfort. He removed with that office from Frankfort to Louisville when the transfer was made during the war. Subsequently he became connected with the office of Bradshaw & Bro., architects, where he remained for about three years, during one year of which he was a member of the firm. He afterwards engaged in business for himself as a practicing architect, and in 1891, with Mr. Arthur Loomis, formed the partnership of Clarke & Loomis, which continued to exist during the remainder of his life.
His tastes and conceptions were in the direction of the classical, and he believed that an edifice should be typical of the purpose for which it was erected. He understood the quality and character of the work he desired, and gently, but firmly and insistently, strove for the achievement of his high ideals and developed them in brick and stone.
For a man of his long experience, broad knowledge and high attainments, Mr. Clarke was exceptionally modest and retiring in his intercourse with his professional friends; yet his character was of the strongest; his principles of the firmest; his ideals of the loftiest. His mind well stored with knowledge, his opinions carried with them the weight of more than half a century of successful professional work - a work in which he was actively engaged until within a few hours of his life's end. Mr. Clarke died March 10, 1908.
Mr. Clarke was elected a member of the Western Association of Architects in 1884, and by act of consolidation of the Western Association with the American Institute of Architects in 1889 became a Fellow of this latter organization, taking an active part in its reorganization. He was a charter member of the Engineers and Architects Club, becoming its fifth President in 1896, and he was the first President of the Louisville Chapter American Institute of Architects, which was formed March, 1908, but he did not live to assume its duties.
(Collected and forwarded by Mr. Mason Maury, Secretary, Louisville Chapter.)
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This is an obituary for Charles Julian Clarke:
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR CHARLES J. CLARKE.
The funeral services of Charles J. Clarke, who died Tuesday morning at his apartments at the Willard _______ were held yesterday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. E.[sic] Grant, 832 Second street, and the body was taken to Frankfort for burial. Mr. Clarke was known as one of Louisville's foremost architects. Two sisters, Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Robert H. Parker, survive.
A Tribute.
The death of Charles J. Clarke is a distinct loss to the city of Louisville. Mr. Clarke was an able and distinguished man in his profession, and he has left many magnificent structures standing as monuments of his skill and genius as an architect in this city. Mr. Clarke was a man of the loftiest character-plain, modest and unassuming; of the highest honor and of the strictest integrity in every respect.
He lived the allotted time of man on earth and after a life, blameless and full of good deeds and sacrifice for others, he has been gathered to his fathers, leaving to his sorrowing friends who survive him the rich heritage of a good name, and to his brother architects an illustrious example of professional honor and unswerving rectitude in all the relations of life.
J.H.L.
Family Members
Siblings
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Margaret Jane Clarke Herndon
1817–1860
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Mathew William Clarke
1819–1845
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Lavinia Clarke Herndon
1821–1880
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Mary Ann Clarke Sneed
1822–1849
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Harriet Julian Clarke Page
1824–1897
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Ellen Elizabeth Clarke Grant
1826–1910
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Mildred Thomas Mitchell Clarke
1828–1833
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Joseph Clarke Jr
1830–1832
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Sallie Ann Clarke Parker
1832–1924
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Felicia Julian Clarke Buford
1834–1904
