Background
George R. Mann was born in 1856 in Indiana, United States.
George R. Mann was born in 1856 in Indiana, United States.
Continuing his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he graduated in 1876 with a B. S. degree, and during the next three years acquired training and experience while employed in New York offices.
In 1879 Mr. Mann formed a partnership with a former classmate at “Boston Tech, Edward Stebbins of Minneapolis, and opened an office in that city for architectural practice. While his work in that association was of general character, he also participated in, and was successful in winning, a number of competitions. One of the most important of these was for the new State Capitol at Little Rock, Ark., and in 1901 he left Minneapolis to open an office in the southern city. In continuing practice there during the rest of his life, Mr. Mann planned independently or with associates, a number of hotels, office buildings, public and business structures in the southern and mid-western states. After 1930 he was senior member of the firm of Mann, Wanger & King, maintaining offices in the Donaghey Building at Little Rock.
A former member of the old Western Association of Architects in 1887, and promoted to Institute Fellowship two years later, Mr. Mann had continued his affiliation with the Arkansas Chapter, A. I. A., throughout long years of practice.