Background
Charles G. Beersman was born in 1888 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Charles G. Beersman was born in 1888 in San Francisco, California, United States.
He became a pupil in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. During his student years, he won the LeBrun Traveling Scholarship affording him the opportunity of a period of supplementary study in Italy.
Mr. Beersman began his career in Chicago in 1919 as a draftsman with Graham, Anderson. Probst & White, and during the several years he was connected with the firm, participated in designing the following buildings: in Chicago, the Federal Reserve Bank, National Bank Building, Wrigley Office Building, and the Union Station; also the Strauss Building in Cleveland, and the Mary Baker Eddy Memorial in Boston. In addition to architectural work, for a few years (1930-36) Mr. Beersman served as Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago.
During the last decade Mr. Beersman practiced in New York, associated with the firm of Fellheimer & Wagner.