Background
J. Edwin Carpenter was born in 1867 in Columbia, Tennessee, United States.
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J. Edwin Carpenter
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Carpenter studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.
Career
During the nineties, he established an office in Norfolk, Virginia, United States and in his early work designed a number of business and commercial buildings. Among these was the American National Bank in Pensacola, Florida, United States, the Empire Office Building at Birmingham, and the Hermitage Hotel at Nashville, Tennessee, United States all erected prior to 1910.
In New York where Mr. Carpenter maintained practice during the last twenty years of his life, he achieved his greatest success in planning Apartment Houses. At least fifty of these tall modern buildings were erected from his designs on Park Avenue and the east side of Fifth Avenue, outstanding examples of which were 907 Fifth Avenue (awarded the A. I. A. Gold Medal Award in 1916) and 819 Park Avenue, recognized in 1926 by the New York Chapter, A. I. A. by its Gold Medal Award.
Shortly before his death (which occurred in his office at 598 Madison Ave. following a heart attack) Mr. Carpenter collaborated with other architects in preparing plans for the huge Lincoln Building at 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue.
