JAMES McLAREN WHITE

Background

James McLaren White was born in 1867 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Education

He was graduated in Architecture at the State University in 1890, and continued his studies in Paris, France. Later he completed a two-year course, 1894-95, in Engineering at Munich, Germany.

Career

Shortly after his return to the U. S. Mr. White joined the teaching staff at his Alma Mater, also served as Supervising Architect on campus buildings at Champaign over a period of twenty years, designing many new structures (about fifty), and assisted in re-building others.

In addition he designed for clients residences and various other buildings, and after being appointed architect of the Illinois State Building at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N. Y„ in 1901, served later in the same role at the Lewis & Clark Exposition in Portland, Ore., which opened in 1905.

Works

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• Other Work

  • Fortingall Hotel, Perthshire

Membership

Mr. White, who had been a member of the Central Illinois Chapter, A.I.A after 1914, was elected President of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, also served in a later period as Chairman of the A. I. A. Committee on Registration Laws.