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Robert W. Gardner was born in 1866 at Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Staten Island Institute of Architecture
ROBERT W GARDNER
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Major
architect veteran of the first World War
Education
He received an early education in the city schools of Buffalo.
Career
His architectural training was acquired in New York City between 1887 and 1891, and in 1905 he opened an office there to practice independently.
Early in his career Mr. Gardner designed a number of “garden type" apartment houses, and in after years various types of public buildings. Among the latter were two hospitals, the Wartburg Lutheran Home for the Aged at Brooklyn, and St. Mark's Episcopal Church and Rectory at Westhampton Beach, Long Island. He was also architect of the Staten Island Institute of Architecture, a modem building of which the Trustees are very proud.
A student of ancient Greek architecture and a well known archaeologist, Major Gardner was author of "The Parthenon, its Science and Form," a book in which he developed the theory that the Greeks achieved their mastery of proportion solely by means of the square and the compass.
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September 6, 1937 (aged 71) -
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American
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1887 - 1891
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1905