Background
Edward A. Kent was born in 1853 at Bangor, Maine, United States.
Edward A. Kent was born in 1853 at Bangor, Maine, United States.
He was educated in local schools of Maine, and after completing a preparatory course of architectural training, entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Upon his return to the United States the young man began work in Syracuse, N. Y. as draftsman for the late J. L. Silsbee. In 1882 he went with the elder architect to Chicago, and for two years worked in partnership with him.
In subsequent years Mr. Kent maintained an independent office in Buffalo, his father's home town, and early in his career achieved success in designing a number of notable buildings. He was architect of the Jewish Temple, Beth Zion, dedicated in 1890, the W. O. Chapin Building (1908), and the First Unitarian Church, all in Buffalo, in collaboration with his brother, W. W. Kent of New York. He also designed the new hotel, Kent House, at Lakewood, Chautauqua, after an earlier building on the site had been destroyed by fire and a number of private homes in that region.
Former member of the Buffalo Chapter, A. I. A.