Background
Sidney J. Osgood was born in 1845 at Aurora, Maine, United States. The son of a builder.
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Kent County Court House
1884
Westminister Presbyterian Church, Grand Rapids
1886
SIDNEY J. OSGOOD
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The youth mastered the rudiments of planning and construction under his father, and in 1876 settled at Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he opened an office and continued in practice until a few years prior to his death. In his latter years he was associated with his son, Eugene, under the firm name of Osgood & Osgood, with an office in the New Herald Building. Among his most important buildings should be named the Kent County Court House, 1884; Widdicomb Building, and the Westminister Presbyterian Church, 1886, and the Cort-Knott Building, 1902, all in Grand Rapids. He also designed a number of public buildings elsewhere in the state, one noted example being the Muskegon County Court House, built in 1895.
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A retired member of the Detroit Chapter, A. I. A., Mr. Osgood was elected to the Western Association of Architects in 1884, and following its merger with the American Institute of Architects in 1889, was raised to Institute Fellowship.
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