Background
Herbert G. Crisp was born in 1867 Fairfield, Maryland (Anne Arundel County), United States.
Herbert G. Crisp was born in 1867 Fairfield, Maryland (Anne Arundel County), United States.
He received an education in Anne Arundel County schools and at Baltimore City College.
At an early age he became a student in the architectural office of the late Joseph E. Sperry in Baltimore, and after successive promotions to the position of head draftsman, in 1915 became junior partner in the firm of Sperry & Crisp. In 1923 he was taken into the firm, and following Mr. Sperry's death in 1930 the two surviving members formed a partnership..
During the many years Mr. Crisp was engaged in professional practice, he collaborated with his associates in planning a number of public buildings in Baltimore, of which should be named the following: Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. Buildings, 1907 and 1917; Union Memorial Hospital group, 1922-29; the Western and Eastern High Schools. 1927 and 1937; Baltimore Country Club, 1932; Women's Hospital, 1939; Crownsville State Hospital, 1929-39; and eleven buildings at John Hopkins Hospital between 1915 and 1939. In addition his firm designed the Nemours Memorial Hospital for Crippled Chil¬dren at Wilmington, Del., 1939.