Background
Theodore C. Link was born in 1850 in Germany.
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The building, which is in the Beaux-Arts architectural style, was designed to house all branches of the Mississippi state government, although now the judicial branch is housed in the Gartin Justice Building across High Street.
Theodore C. Link was born in 1850 in Germany.
He was educated at Heidelberg University, the youth was tamed in architecture in London and completed his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Migrating to the U. S. in 1870, Mr. Link arrived in St. Louis some three years later, and began work on Engineering projects. After being employed in subsequent periods at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York, he returned to St. Louis in 1883 to start architectural practice under the firm name of Link, Rosenheim & Ittner. With the termination of that association three years later , he formed a partnership with Wilbur T. Trueblood which was maintained until 1889, when he withdrew to open an independent office, and practiced under his own name.
Mr. Link’s first important work in St. Louis (won in a competition in 1891) was the new Union Station, notable as the first large Railroad Terminal in the mid-west, which he supervised until its completion in 1894. During the following years his practice was extensive, both in character and range, including such buildings in St. Louis as the Barnes Hospital; Medical buildings at Washington University; Carleton Office Building; Lindall Avenue Church (in association with A. F. Rosenheim), and the Metallurgy Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904.
Elsewhere he designed the Wabash Terminal at Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1904, and after the end of the first World War engaged in the planning of important works at Jackson, Miss. From that city he moved to Baton Rouge, La., and among his last works were buildings at the Louisiana State University and the State Agricultural College.