Background
Arthur Bates Jenings was born in 1849 at North Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States. The son of a school teacher and lawyer.
Arthur Bates Jenings was born in 1849 at North Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States. The son of a school teacher and lawyer.
His architectural training was also acquired in the city, first in the office of the late George B. Post where he remained several years, later as draftsman for Russell Sturgis.
Mr. Jennings continued active until his retirement in 1920. During the latter years of the last century he designed many private homes on New York’s upper west side, also acquired a reputation in church and institutional architecture. In the list of his most important works should be included the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture in New York; Warner and Rice Halls at Olive (Mich.) College; Westminster Presbyterian Church, Bloomfield, N. J.; Cranston Street Baptist Church in Providence, R. I.; All Saints Episcopal Church, Massillion, Ohio; Second Congregational Church, Winsted, Conn.; and at Norfolk, Va., the First Baptist Church.
An early member of the New York Chapter, A. I. A., elected to Institute Fellowship in 1890