German-born American architect
Theodore Carl Link
Born (1850-03-17 ) March 17, 1850Died November 12, 1923(1923-11-12) (aged 73) Resting place
Bellefontaine Cemetery Education Occupation Architect Spouse
Theodore C. Link ,
FAIA , (March 17, 1850 – November 12, 1923) was a German-born American architect and newspaper publisher. He designed buildings for the
1904 World's Fair ,
Louisiana State University , and the
Mississippi State Capitol .
His best known work is in the
Richardsonian Romanesque style, specifically the
St. Louis Union Station (1894), and the
Second Presbyterian Church (1899).
[1] The
Theodore Link Historic Buildings (c. 1911) in
University City are three private residences on Delmar Boulevard that are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis County, Missouri .
[2]
Early life
Theodore Carl Link was born on March 17, 1850, near
Heidelberg , Germany. He was trained in engineering at the
University of Heidelberg and the
École Centrale Paris .
[3]
Career
St. Louis Union Station
Link emigrated to the United States, arriving in
St. Louis in 1873 to work for the
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad company. He married Annie Fuller on September 22, 1875.
[3] That year, St. Louis Surveyor
Julius Pitzman recommended him to the job of superintendent of public parks for St. Louis. In 1889, Link joined the
American Institute of Architects and started his own private architectural practice.
[4]
After a four-year interim as a German-language newspaper publisher in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , Link returned to St. Louis just after the turn of the century as one of the architects for the
1904 World's Fair . In 1901 he won the competition to design the new
Mississippi State Capitol building in Jackson, which was completed two years later. He also "designed most of the buildings for LSU when the campus was relocated in the 1920s."
[5]
Death and legacy
Link died in
Baton Rouge while working on the new
Louisiana State University campus,
[6] and was interred at
Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. In 1995 was awarded a star on the
St. Louis Walk of Fame .
[7]
Work
Among the 100+ buildings he designed:
1869 Monticello Seminary (now
Lewis and Clark Community College ),
Godfrey, Illinois
1891 gates and several houses for two of St. Louis's
private places , Westmoreland Place and Portland Place
1894
St. Louis Union Station , modeled on the fortifications of
Carcassonne , with architect Edward Cameron
[3]
[8]
1899
Second Presbyterian Church , 4501 Westminster Place, St. Louis
[9]
1901 St. John's United Methodist Church, 5000 Washington Place
1901
Wabash Railroad Station and Railway Express Agency , 780 East Cerro Gordo Street,
Decatur, Illinois
[10]
1902 Wabash Railroad Station, Danville, Illinois
[11]
1903
Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal , Liberty Avenue at Ferry Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1903
Mississippi State Capitol ,
Jackson, Mississippi
1904 Palace of Mines and Metallurgy at the
1904 World's Fair (razed)
1904 Reid Hall and campus master plan for
Washington and Lee University
[12]
1906 Barr Branch,
St. Louis Public Library
1908
Wednesday Club building and auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri
[13]
1910 Roberts Shoe (International Shoe) Company Building, St. Louis, with ornament influenced by
Louis Sullivan
1911 Theodore Link Historic Buildings, 7100, 7104 and 7108 Delmar Blvd, University City, Missouri
[2]
1919–1923, master plan and nine buildings for the
Louisiana State University , including the
Memorial Tower , with
W. T. Trueblood
Images
Westmoreland Place gates, St. Louis, Missouri
Portland Place gates, St. Louis, Missouri
Wabash Station, Decatur, Illinois
Wabash Station, Decatur, Illinois
Palace of Mines and Metallurgy,
1904 World's Fair
Mississippi State Capitol
Grand Hall, St. Louis Union Station
Reid Hall, Washington and Lee University
Roberts Shoe Company Building, St. Louis, Missouri
Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
References
^
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory –Nomination Form, Theodore Link Historic District" (PDF) .
National Park Service , U.S. Department of the Interior . September 11, 1980.
^
a
b
"NPGallery Asset Detail: Link, Theodore, Historic Buildings" .
National Park Service , U.S. Department of the Interior . Retrieved December 31, 2021 .
^
a
b
c
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . Vol. XII. James T. White & Company. 1904. p. 104. Retrieved August 14, 2020 – via
Google Books .
^
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory –Nomination Form, Theodore Link Historic District" (PDF) .
National Park Service , U.S. Department of the Interior . September 11, 1980.
^
"Louisiana State University Architectural Drawings by Theodore Link" . Louisiana Digital Library, Baton Rouge, LA .
^ Tofts, Caroline Hewes.
"Theodore C. Link, FAIA (1850–1923)" . Landmarks Association of St Louis . Retrieved February 2, 2015 .
^
"St. Louis Walk of Fame Inductees" . St. Louis Walk of Fame. Retrieved April 25, 2013 .
^ Larson, Paul Clifford; Brown, Susan Mattseld (1988).
The Spirit of H.H. Richardson on the Midland Prairies: Regional Transformations of an Architectural Style . University Art Museum, University of Minnesota.
ISBN
9780813800172 .
^ "Second Presbyterian Church St. Louis, Missouri". American Presbyterians . 68 (3): 206. Fall 1990.
JSTOR
23332669 .
^ Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations . New York:
John Wiley & Sons , Inc. p. 295.
ISBN
978-0471143895 .
^
Railroad Gazette . Railroad Gazette. January 1, 1902.
^ Warren, Mame (1998). Come Cheer for Washington and Lee .
Washington & Lee University Press (Meridian Printing). p. 12.
^
"History" .
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