Background
James F. Jamieson was born in 1867 in United States.
James F. Jamieson was born in 1867 in United States.
Mr. Jamieson began his career in Philadelphia as a draftsman in the office of Cope & Stewardson. A few years later, in 1900, the firm won the competition for new buildings at Washington University at St. Louis, and he was sent there to establish a branch office and supervise the work under construction.
In 1902, following the death of Mr. Cope, Mr. Jamieson was appointed to succeed the firm as architect for the Washington University Corporation, and in that capacity designed the Lafevre Hall of Botany. Continuing to practice without associates until 1918, he acquired a reputation in the field of residential design. One of the distinctive examples of his work was the home of Edward Mallenbrodt on Westmoreland Place, St. Louis, completed in 1915, for which he received the Gold Medal Award of the St. Louis Architectural Club.
In partnership with George Spearl during a later phase of his career, Mr. Jamieson was co-architect of the Bixby Hall of Fine Arts and the Biology Building at Washington University, Memorial Tower of the University of Missouri at Columbia, built in 1927, and other buildings at Princeton University and Bryn Mawr College.