Background
Charles Crapsey was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
Charles Crapsey was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
His early architectural training was acquired in the office of James E. Wilson.
Following ten years of practical experience he began practice under the firm name of Crapsey & Brown and maintained that association for three decades.
Early in his career Mr. Crapsey was architect of a few commercial buildings, but in the ensuing years devoted his attention almost exclusively to church work. In Cincinnati he designed the Baptist Church in Lincoln Park, the Pleasant Ridge Methodist Church, and the First English Lutheran, and elsewhere the following named buildings: the Second Presbyterian at Bloomington, ill., the Methodist Episcopal at Lafayette, Ind., the Second Street Methodist at Covington, Ky., also Presbyterian churches at New¬port and Henderson, Kentucky.