Background
Charles S. Peabody was born in 1880 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
(Ludlow & Peabody)
Ludlow & Peabody
(Ludlow & Peabody)
Ludlow & Peabody
Charles S. Peabody was born in 1880 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
He was educated at Harvard University where he graduated in 1900. After taking up architectural study at Columbia University, New York, Mr. Peabody went to France to enter the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts, and in 1908 when he was awarded his diploma, ranked highest in a class of two hundred graduates.
During the following year he began practice in New York, associated in partnership with William Orr Ludlow (Ludlow & Peabody), and continued active in practice over a period of nearly twenty years. Their works com¬prised a variety of business and public structures in Manhattan, with educational buildings, churches and hotels in other locations. Notable among these were the George Peabody School for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn.; Psychology Building, Industrial Arts and Home Economics buildings at Vanderbilt University, Memphis, Tenn.; Peck Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y.; the 14th Street Annex of the New York Times Building, 1922-24 ; Ogden Auditorium at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. ; Fort William Henry Hotel at Lake George, N. Y. : Johns-Manville Building, New York, won in a competition in 1922; First Baptist Church in Westfield, N. J., and the Second Reformed Church, New Brunswick, N. J.
