Background
Charles Morris was born in 1869.
Charles Morris was born in 1869.
Leaving there in the early ’nineties, Mr. Morris went to Europe for supplementary study, and attended atliers of the Ecole des Beaux Arts over a period of two years.
As a youth he received an architectural training in New York, and at an early age joined the newly established office of Carrere & Hastings where he had the unique distinction of being the first draftsman in the firm’s employ. Leaving there in the early nineties, Mr. Morris went to Europe for supplementary study, and attended atliers of the Ecole des Beaux Arts over a period of two years. Returning to New York, he began practice in association with the late Richard Walker (architect of the old 22nd Regiment Armory) whom he helped design the Municipal Ferry House at the South Ferry, the bridge and pavilions on Riverside Drive at 95th Street, and a number of Carnegie Library buildings in Brooklyn.
Early in the present century Mr. Morris moved to Cleveland, and after collaborating with Charles Butler in the competition for the New York Court House, remained in his office for a number of years. Later he was employed for a time in the office of the U. S. Supervising Architect at Washington where his particular work was designing Post Office Buildings.
Following the end of World War I (in which he was in U. S. Service) Mr. Morris returned to Cleveland, and continued active in practice from 1923 until the time of his death.
He became a member of the local Chapter, A. I. A. in 1920 and was advanced to Institute Fellowship in 1925.