Background
Walter B. Chambers was born in 1866 in Brooklyn, United States.
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International Mercantile Marine Building
(It was erected between 1918 and 1924.)
It was erected between 1918 and 1924.
Walter B. Chambers
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Walter received a formal education at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, where he graduated at the age of twenty-one. After preparatory training in New York for an architectural career, he continued to study in Munich, Germany, and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.
Career
In New York, Walter entered the office of Ernest Flagg. Employed first as a draftsman, in 1895 he became Mr. Flagg's junior partner, and continued in that association for several years, collaborating on the design of a number of important buildings in Manhattan, one of which was the Central Headquarters of the City Fire Department.
In 1906 Mr. Chambers opened his own office in New York, and soon acquired a reputation in the field of Apartment House design. During later years he planned several mercantile buildings, important examples of which were the Fumess- Withy Steamship Company Building in 1918, and the International Mercantile Marine Building, erected between 1918 and 1924.
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Membership
Mr. Chambers became a member of the New York Chapter, A.I.A., in 1900, and in 1912 was raised to Institute Fellowship.
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