Background
Richard L. Watmough was born in 1877 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
(Farrar & Watmough)
Farrar & Watmough
Richard L. Watmough was born in 1877 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
He attended the Academy School of Fine Arts and the Drexel Institute of Technology, and completed architectural study in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
After starting work as draftsman in Pittsburgh, Mr. Watmough moved to New York where he secured a position in Victor Farrar's office, and in 1925 was taken into partnership under the firm name of Farrar & Watmough. Continuing work in that association for a year, he gained a reputation in designing hotels and apartment houses in Manhattan, with the Lombardy Hotel and Chelsea Corners Apartments among his best known works. Later, in the "depression years of the 1930s Mr. Watmough was appointed Senior Architect of the New York Procurement Agency of the War Department, and held that position until the tune of his death.
