Background
Jerome Ripley Allen was born in 1871at Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States.
Jerome Ripley Allen was born in 1871at Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States.
He was educated in Architecture at the Massa¬chusetts Institute of Technology and at Columbia University,
Early in the century began his career in New York, in partnership with Charles Ewing, under the name of Allen & Ewing he maintained a general practice for a number of years. The firm’s outstanding achievement in New York was the Architects Building at 101 Park Avenue, while the partners were known to have designed buildings of other types, one of which was the Science Laboratory at Vassar College. During the first World War Mr Allen was appointed Architect of the Bureau of Yards and Docks at the New York Navy Yard, and had charge of the planning and supervision of Barracks and Cantonments in Brooklyn, at Pelham Bay and other locations. He also designed for the Government a Hospital in Philadelphia and another at League Island, as well as buildings for the Industrial Village at Muscle Shoals.
During the first World War Mr Allen was appointed Architect of the Bureau of Yards and Docks at the New York Navy Yard.