Background
Henry S. Josselyn was born in 1845 at Dayton, Ohio, United States.
Henry S. Josselyn was born in 1845 at Dayton, Ohio, United States.
He received an architectural training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and in Europe.
After acquiring experience in offices in Chicago and Des Moines, Mr. Josselyn moved to Cedar Rapids in 1882 to form a partnership with Eugene H. Taylor. Among the firm's early works were the First Congregational and the Grace Episcopal churches, the Iowa State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, and the State Building at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition held at Omaha, Nebraska in 1898.
Following the turn of the century Josselyn & Taylor won recognition in designing a number of public and business structures in Cedar Rapids, among which was St. Luke’s Hospital, 1902; the Mercy Hospital; Carnegie Library, 1903; Montrose Hotel; Security Trust & Savings Bank, and the Cedar Rapids Savings Bank, 1908.