Background
Page was born in Washington District of Columbia on January 9, 1859 and was the son of Charles Grafton and Priscilla (Webster) Page. His father was an inventor who discovered the induction coil and the circuit breaker.
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Education
He studied architecture with J. L. Smithmeyer and he opened his own architectural office in the 1880s in Washington.
Career
Page went to school in Andover, Massachusetts and then at the Emerson Institute in Washington, District of Columbia His most well known works around Washington are the Army and Navy Club, the Metropolitan Club, and the Phoebe Hearst House. Page designed The Whittemore House between 1892 and 1894, located in Washington"s Dupont Circle neighborhood. George and Phoebe Hearst, of the Hearst fortune, hired Page to reconfigure their Dupont Circle home into a Romanesque Revival style.
He moved to Chicago where he practiced with East. South. Hall at the H. L. Page and Company firm from approximately 1897 to 1900.
Around the year 1900 he moved to San Antonio, Texas where he remained for the rest of his life. He painted many landscape paintings of the old missions and the countryside around San Antonio.
Page had an active social life in San Antonio.
Membership
He was a member of the San Antonio Club, the Travis Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Masons.
