Benjamin Wistar Morris

Architect

Centurion, 1911–1944

Proposed by
James J. Goodwin and William Rutherford Mead

born October 25, 1870
Portland, Oregon

died December 4, 1944
New York (Manhattan), New York

elected February 4, 1911
Age forty

buried Cedar Hill Cemetery,
Hartford, Connecticut

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Century Memorial

Benjamin Wistar Morris. [Born] 1870. Architect. Born in Oregon, of Philadelphian ancestry, studied architecture at the Beaux Arts in Paris, practiced his profession here for fifty years; among the many notable buildings from his designs in this city were the Cunard Building, the Union League Club and the Annex to the Morgan Library; awarded the Gold Medal of the Architectural League for his design of the Baldwin house at Mt. Kisco; prepared designs for a new Metropolitan Opera House as part of a plan for Rockefeller Center which was not adopted; participated in designing interiors of the liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth; member of the city’s Art Commission and of the National Fine Arts Commission in Washington; painter of talent, regularly exhibiting in the amateur shows at the Club; constant and loyal Centurion, cherished member of the architects’ table in the dining-room.

Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945

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