Background
James Knox Taylor was born in 1857 in Knoxville, Illinois, United States.
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Post Offices at Annapolis
JAMES KNOX TAYLOR
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He completed an early education in schools in St. Paul, Minn. After taking up architectural study he completed a two-year course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
He worked in offices in Boston and New York, in the latter city employed for a year or more by Cass Gilbert.
Returning to St. Paul in 1882, Mr. Taylor established practice in the city, subsequently moved to Philadelphia in 1892, and three years later went on to Washington. In the capital city he entered the Office of the U. S. Supervising Architect as senior draftsman, and in 1897 succeeded to the post of Supervising Architect of the Department. Through his fifteen years of service in that office Mr. Taylor was in charge of the design and erection of various Government buildings, among them Post Offices at Annapolis and Carrollton, Md., at Asbury Park, N. J., and Norwich, Conn., and in San Francisco the old Federal Building occupied by the Post Office, Custom House and Appraisers' Stores.
Following his retirement from Government service in 1912, Mr. Taylor opened an office in Boston for private practice.
