Background
Weaver, Rudolph was born on April 17, 1880 in Roxbury Borough (now in Johnstown), Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Henry and Sara Jane (Barnhart) Weaver.
Weaver, Rudolph was born on April 17, 1880 in Roxbury Borough (now in Johnstown), Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Henry and Sara Jane (Barnhart) Weaver.
Preparatory education Pennsylvania State College, 1902-1903. Diploma in Architecture, Drexel Institute, 1905, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, 1919. Student architecture, Columbia, 1906-1907.
Student Beaux-Arts Society Atelier Hornbostle, 1907, Harvard, summer 1927.
Travel in Europe, summer 1929, in Mexico, summer 1937.
Before college he worked as a bookbinder, printer and steelworker. He continued his study of architecture at Columbia University from 1906 to 1907, and at the atelier of Henry Hornbostel of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects in 1907. Illinois From 1909 to 1911, Weaver was an instructor in architecture at the University of Illinois.
Washington From 1911 to 1923, he was the first chairman of the architecture department at what is now Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, and was the first architect for the institution.
He designed seven buildings, including: Idaho From 1923 to 1925 he held the same positions at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, where he did the campus plan and in 1923 designed the Science Building, now Life Sciences South. Florida From 1925 until his death in 1944 he was founding dean of University of Florida"s College of Architecture.
During that time he was also the architect for the Florida Board of Control, which governed the state"s three institutions of higher education and the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. As board architect, Weaver succeeded William Augustus Edwards, the first architect to the board, and continued designing buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style begun by Edwards.
Among the buildings he designed are: = Gainesville The following buildings in the University of Florida Campus Historic District: Other campus buildings on the National Register Other campus buildings not on the National register: Dairy Sciences Building, now Building 120, 1937 Private buildings off campus include: Chapel of the Incarnation - Episcopal Chapel House, 1522 West University Avenue Dixie Hotel (now John F Seagle Building), 408 West University Avenue, 1926.
= Saint Augustine Florida School for the Deaf and Blind = Tallahassee FAMU Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University) Lee Hall 1928 FSU Florida State College for Women (Florida State University): Campus buildings designed by Rudolph Weaver include: Cawthon Hall, 1946–1948, built after Weaver"s death, based on his drawings. lieutenant was the last Gothic building at FSU. His designs were followed so closely that even the FSCW stone relief at one entrance was not changed to use the new initials: FSU. Gilchrist Hall, 1926 Landis Hall, 1939 Longmire Alumni Building, 1938 Rudolph Weaver died in Gainesville in 1944 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
Member Florida State Board of Architecture, 1927-1934 and 1941-1945, president 1932-1934. Member City Plan Board, Gainesville, Florida, since 1929, chairman since 1932. Member Civic Music Association, president, 1939-1940.
Member Chamber of Commerce.
Fellow American Institute Architects (former. Club: Gainesville Kiwanis (president 1938).
Married Alice Rossing Walden, August 22, 1922.