Background
Charles L. Jr. Borie was born in 1871 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Charles L. Jr. Borie was born in 1871 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
A graduate at the age of twenty-one at the University of Pennsylvania.
He began a professional career in 1910 as a partner in the newly organized firm of Zantzinger, Borie & Medarv. Some years later, after Mr. Medary’s death in 1929, Mr. Borie continued in partnership with C. C. Zantzinger.
During his active years he planned a number of outstanding public buildings, notably the following: William Penn Charter School at Philadelphia: Dormitories at Princeton University: Hospital Buildings at Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr; the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1928) designed by Zantzinger & Borie in association with Horace Trumbauer; and—the firm s greatest architectural achievement—the monumental Justice Department Building at Washington, completed in 1934.