Henry Hodgman Saylor

Background

Saylor, Henry Hodgman was born on May 5, 1880 in Baltimore. Son of Livingston and Katy (Oster) Saylor.

Education

Preparatory education, The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Student architecture, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1898-1901.

Career

Editor Architectural Review, Boston, 1904-1906. Architectural editor, Country Life in America, New York, 1906-1909. Editor American Architect, 1909.

Editor House and Garden, New York, treasurer McBride, Winston & Company, 1909-1911. Editorial director and treasurer McBride, Nast & Company, 1911-1913. Art editor Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913-1914.

Editor of Country Life in America, 1914-1920. Editor Architecture, 1926-1936. Associate editor American Architect, 1936-1937.

Editor, publisher The Architect’s World, 1938. Associate editor The Architectural Forum, 1938-1941. Consultant to Public Building Administration, 1939-1940.

Supervising construction of war plants for Albert Kahn, 1942-1943. Editor Journal American International Assurance, 1944-1957. American International Assurance historian, since 1957.

Member Commission Fine Arts Board Architectural Cons. for Old Georgetown, 1957-1965. Edward C. Kemper award American Institute Architects, 1954.

Membership

Fellow) The American Institute of Architects, Royal Geographic Society. Member Architectural League of New York, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Clubs: Sierra (California).

Connections

Married Mary Helen Miller, November 27, 1906. Children: Mary Miller (Mistress Robert C. Muhlhausen), and Helen Mills (Mistress E. Edson Poler).

Father:

Livingston Saylor

Mother:

Katy (Oster) Saylor

Spouse:

Mary Helen Miller

child:

Mary Miller Saylor (Mistress Robert C. Muhlhausen)

child:

and Helen Mills Saylor (Mistress E. Edson Poler)