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Clyde Nelson Friz

Clyde Nelson Friz (1867–1942) was an architect in Baltimore, Maryland, who was active in his field from 1900 until his death in 1942. He is noted for designing the main Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch,[1][2] the Scottish Rite Temple with John Russell Pope,[3] the Standard Oil Building,[4] and numerous residential commissions in Tuscany-Canterbury and elsewhere.[5][6][7]

History edit

Clyde Nelson Friz was born in 1867.[8] From 1887-1890 he attended Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, and was in the School of Fine Arts.[9][10]

In 1900, he began working in the architecture field,[11] in which he would work until 1942, when he died in November of that year.[12][11] In 1911, he began a partnership with fellow Baltimore architect Edward Hughes Glidden, forming the firm Glidden & Friz. During their partnership, which ended in 1922, they designed buildings including Tudor Hall Apartments, Essex Hall, Canterbury Hall Apartments, The Esplanade, Calvert Court Apartments, Furness-Withy Building (also called the "Furness House"), and Sydenham Hospital for Communicable Diseases.[13][14][15]

He also did the architecture for the main Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch, which opened in 1933,[16][17][18] the Scottish Rite Temple with John Russell Pope, and the Standard Oil Building, all in Baltimore.[1][3][4]

Later, he worked with his son, Nelson Friz, on the architecture of the Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Maryland[19] and the Loyola Federal Savings and Loan Association building in Baltimore, which later became the Liberal Arts and Policy Building of University of Baltimore.[20] He also entered into a competition to design a new building at Baltimore City College, as did Edward Hughes Glidden, Joseph Evans Sperry, Edward L. Palmer Jr., and many others, but the design contract was awarded to the Buckler and Fenhagen firm in June 1924.[21]

Personal life edit

He married Ethel E. Murphy.[22][11] He had three children with her: Clyde M. Friz[23] and Nelson Friz,[8] both of whom were born in 1906, and a daughter, Maynard.[22][11]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Construction workers completing exterior walls and penthouses of new Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library (view looking southwest), May 1, 1932". Digital Maryland. Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Archived from the original on February 13, 2024. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  2. ^ "Mayor Howard W. Jackson addressing onlookers at cornerstone-laying ceremony of new Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, January 12, 1932". Digital Maryland. Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Archived from the original on June 21, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Scottish Rite Temple". Baltimore Heritage. Archived from the original on August 20, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  4. ^ a b Standard Oil Building data from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (PAB) project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
  5. ^ Clyde Nelson Friz data from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (PAB) project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
  6. ^ Fielding, Meg (March 8, 2022). "Hot House: Light-filled Tuscany apartment well-suited for slower lifestyle". Baltimore Fishbowl. Archived from the original on April 28, 2023. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  7. ^ "Construction Activity This Week". The American Contractor. Vol. 9, no. 48. Chicago, Illinois: F.W. Dodge Corporation. December 1, 1928. p. 31. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  8. ^ a b Giroux, Ann G. (2015). Guilford. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 9781439652879.
  9. ^ A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Washington University, With Courses of Study, for the Academic Year 1889-90. St. Louis, Missouri: Nixon-Jones Printing Co. 1890. pp. 124, 142.
  10. ^ A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Washington University, With Courses of Study, for the Academic Year 1887-88. St. Louis, Missouri: Nixon-Jones Printing Co. 1888. p. 142.
  11. ^ a b c d "Clyde N. Friz Funeral Held". The Salina Journal. Salina, Kansas. November 26, 1942. p. 18. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
  12. ^ Hille, R. Thomas (2018). The New Public Library: Design Innovation for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Routledge. p. 1018.
  13. ^ "Edward Hughes Glidden Sr". The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Archived from the original on February 13, 2024. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
  14. ^ Pousson, Eli. "Zell Motor Car Company Showroom: A Stylish Dealership and Showroom on Mount Royal Avenue". Baltimore Heritage. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
  15. ^ Steward, Scott C (November 6, 2014). "Keeping memory alive". Vita Brevis. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Archived from the original on September 21, 2023. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
  16. ^ "Second-floor front corridor of new Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, circa 1932". Digital Maryland. Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Archived from the original on April 28, 2021. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  17. ^ "After a 3 1/2-year, $115 million restoration and revitalization, Baltimore, Maryland's historic Enoch Pratt Free Library reopens". Revitalization. No. 109. Washington, D.C.: RECONOMICS Institute. 2019. Archived from the original on February 13, 2024. Retrieved February 13, 2024. In 1933, when the EPFL was built...with the open interior plan developed by consulting architects Edward L. Tilton and Alfred M. Githens—both features incorporated by Baltimore architects Clyde and Nelson Friz into the final design
  18. ^ ""Library Windows" of Baltimore". Library of Congress. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. 1933. Archived from the original on May 24, 2021. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  19. ^ Short, Ken (May 2009), Maryland Historical Trust Maryland Inventory of Historic Places Form: Clarksville High School (PDF), p. 1, archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2017, retrieved February 12, 2024
  20. ^ Bell, Laura (September 24, 2019). "The History of UB's Buildings: The Liberal Arts and Policy Building". Robert L. Bogomolny Library. University of Baltimore. Archived from the original on July 5, 2022. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  21. ^ Shoken, Fred B. (June 28, 2002), National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Baltimore City College, p. 9, archived from the original (PDF) on December 8, 2023, retrieved February 12, 2024
  22. ^ a b "Deaths: Mrs. Clyde N. Friz". The Salina Journal. Salina, Kansas. April 22, 1958. p. 19. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
  23. ^ "Clyde M. Friz, Architect, Dies". Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. May 24, 1963. p. 19. Retrieved February 12, 2024.

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