Background
Joseph H. Mcguire was born in 1865.
Joseph H. Mcguire was born in 1865.
Mr McGuire was educated in New York, and after graduating from the City College, studied architecture at St. Xavier college and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
He began practice in New York in 1902 and continued active for nearly fifty years, retiring in 1940 to his home at Pelham, N. Y.
During a long professional career he designed many large and important churches, outstanding examples of which were the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart and the Diocesan House at Richmond, Va„ Church of the Holy Family, New Rochelle, N. Y., Holy Trinity Church, on 82nd Street near Broadway, New York, also St. Elizabeth’s Church and Hospital in New York, and the Catholic Church of St. Rose at Lima, N. Y.
He was a member of the AIA, Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, Architectural League of New York, New Rochelle Board of Education, The United States Catholic Historical Society, and other organizations.