Background
Theodore E. Blake was born in 1870 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Theodore E. Blake was born in 1870 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
He received a technical education during six years of study at the Polytechnic Institute in that city. For an interim of three years (1892-5), spent in Paris as a pupil at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
He began his career as draftsman in the office of Carrere & Hastings.
Mr. Blake remained continuously with the firm until 1927. He was closely associated with the late Thomas Hastings in the preparation of plans for the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, built between 1902 and 1911, also was identified with the designing of the House and Senate Office Buildings at Washington, D. C.
While in independent practice during the last twenty years of his career, Mr. Blake's best known works were the Second Church of Christ Scientist! in New York, the Harbeck Chapel in Woodlawn Cemetary, and buildings for the Rosemary School at Greenwich, Conn. He designed the Mount Hope Bridge at Providence, R. Iā and on other projects served as Consulting Architect with the firm of Robinson & Steinman, Engineers.
A resident of Greenwich, Conn., for many years, Mr. Blake remained a bachelor during his life.
Well-known professionally, he had been a member of the New York Chapter, since 1907, and in 1927 was made a Fellow of the Anerican Institute of Architects. He was also a member of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, and in 1948 was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design.