Background
E. Perot Bissell was born in 1873 in Philadelphia, United States.
E. Perot Bissell was born in 1873 in Philadelphia, United States.
He was graduated at the age of twenty at the University of Pennsylvania.
He acquired practical training while employed as draftsman in local offices of Pennsylvania. In 1900 he established an independent office in the city, six years later formed a partnership with Mr. Sinkler.
Among his best known works, executed under the firm name were: the Confederate Memorial Institute at Richmond, Va., 1913: Memorial Hospital and Nurses’ Home at Abingdon, Va.; Chestnut Street Opera House, Phila¬delphia; Industrial Housing Project, Sun Hill Village, 1918, at Chester, Pa.; Municipal Building, Germantown, Pa.; and "Noreg Village” at Gloucester, N. J. During the thirties Mr. Bissell served with other architects in planning the restoration of Independence Square, Philadelphia.
Mr. Bissell was a member of the national Committee for the Preservation of Historic Monuments.