User:KXF/sandbox/KXF/sandbox/KXF/Charles L. Borie Jr.

Architect Charles Louis Borie, Jr. (1870–1943) studied civil engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1890s and worked for several years in banking. By 1905 he had formed an architectural practice in Philadelphia with Clarence C. Zantzinger; in 1910, Milton B. Medary joined the partnership and it became known as Zantzinger, Borie, & Medary. The firm’s projects include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with Horace Trumbauer, hospitals, educational buildings, and other public projects in the classical vocabulary, many of them designed with Paul Philippe Cret, a member of the firm for several years. Perhaps the most notable of the firm’s work was the U.S. Department of Justice building (1934) in Washington, D.C., which was part of the Federal Triangle complex. Borie was a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1936 to 1940. His affiliations included the Council of the American Academy in Rome and the Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission; he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. During the Great Depression Borie served as an advisor to the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

References

Thomas E. Luebke, ed., “Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts” (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 2013): Appendix B.

“Who Was Who in America,” vol. 2.

Henry & Elsie Withey, “Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased)” (Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1970).