Background
Blodgett, Geoffrey Thomas was born on October 13, 1931 in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Harold William and Dorothy Ardis (Briggs) Blodgett.
(This illustrated guide to the architecture of Oberlin, Oh...)
This illustrated guide to the architecture of Oberlin, Ohio, mixes the remarkable social history of college and town with architectural commentary about one hundred thirty-two buildings built between 1837 and 1977. The result is a unique record of the ways in which the people of one Midwestern college town organized and housed their lives over the past one hundred fifty years, from the layout of the village square in 1833 to distinguished samples from the work of such twentieth-century architects as Cass Gilbert, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Harrison, Minoru Yamasaki, Hugh Stubbins and Robert Venturi. Owing to the plain and austere atmosphere of early Oberlin, much of the village architecture can be appreciated only through a knowledge of the peculiar local past. In contrast, the college campus offers a vivid record of architectural eclecticism from the 1880s to the present. This guide to town and college explains the distinction of both. The author, a historian on the faculty of Oberlin College, launched his research for this book fifteen years ago. It is based on primary evidence drawn from local archives, courthouse records, and the testimony of the buildings themselves.
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Blodgett, Geoffrey Thomas was born on October 13, 1931 in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Harold William and Dorothy Ardis (Briggs) Blodgett.
He received a Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University in 1961, and returned to the college a year later to join the History Department.
As a student at Oberlin from 1949-1953, he was a wide receiver on the Yeomen, the college"s men"s football team After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin in 1953, Blodgett served two years with the United States Navy in the Pacific Fleet. His dissertation focused on a group of political reformers of the late 19th century who left the Republican Party to join the Democratic Party, the Mugwumps.
Throughout his career as a professor he focused on the history of architecture, publishing several books and many articles
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Member City Planning Commission, Oberlin, 1970-1973. Chair City Historic Preservation Commission, Oberlin, 1974-1980. Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Navy, 1953-1955, Korea, Japan.
Member Organisation American Historians, Oberlin History Improvement Organisation, Society Architectural Historians (Western Reserve chapter).
Married Jane McCall Taggart, December 22, 1954. Children: Lauren, Barbara, Sally.