Background
Bauer Charles H. was born May 29, 1880 in Philadelphia, United States.
Bauer Charles H. was born May 29, 1880 in Philadelphia, United States.
Mr. Bauer was graduated at the age of nineteen from the Central Training School. Afterward, he entered Columbia University as a special student in architecture and graduating it in 1902.
Returning to Philadelphia, the youth accepted a practical training while employed four years in Paul' Cret’s office. Later he worked for a few years as a draftsman in the office of Cope & Stewardson, and during that period participated in the designing of a number of the buildings on the St. Louis campus of Washington University. In 1908 he went to Buffalo to work with Osgood Holland, and after a year in that office, during which he was in charge of work on the Hutchinson High School in Buffalo, left to join the New York office of Howell & Stokes.
In the last phase of his career, from 1910 to 1933 when he retired, Mr. Bauer was a member of the office of Guilbert & Betelle at Newark, serving first as Chief Draftsman. After Mr. Guilbert's death in 1916, he continued in that association with Mr. Betelle as acting Manager of the office, with the responsibility for all the firm’s work until his retirement due to ill health.