JOHN TORREY WINDRIM

Background

John Windrim was born in 1866 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Career

He received an architectural training in the office of his father. In practice for himself John Windrim designed a number of hospitals and medical buildings, important examples of which were the Research Institutee at the Lankerman Hospital; Wills Hospital Annex; Evans Dental Institute and a building for the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; Presbyterian Hospital; Jefferson Hospital (1929) and the Thompson Annex; the Barton Research Laboratory at the campus of Franklin Institute at Swarthmore (1929), similar in design to the old Franklin Institute on Seventh Street in Philadelphia dating from 1824.

In addition Mr. Windrim served as architect of the Lincoln Liberty Building, Broad and Chestnuts Streets (1931); a group of Dormitories at Girard College; the North American Office Building, and the Commonwealth Trust Company Building in which both Mr. Windrim and his father established office headquarters. One of his last completed commissions was the new building for the Franklin Institute Museum, erected in 1934 at a cost of about seven million dollars. Elsewhere in the state Mr. Windrim designed a new structure for the Western State Penitentiary in Bellefonte, and the State Museum at Harrisburg

Works

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• Other Work

  • old Franklin Institute on Seventh Street in Philadelphia

  • State Museum at Harrisburg

Connections

Father:

James H. Windrim

Mr. Windrim was a son of the late James H. Windrim in whose office he received an architectural training.