Background
Will Rice Amon was born in 1899 at Lancaster, Kentucky, United States.
Will Rice Amon was born in 1899 at Lancaster, Kentucky, United States.
He was educated at Lancaster, studied Engineering at the Kentucky State College, and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technoloav, graduated from "M.I.T.” in 1932.
Although his career was cut short by death at the age of forty, in the comparatively brief period he was active in professional work, Mr. Amon designed a number of buildings in New York, including the Health Center at Chelsea Park, and was one of the architects on the huge Harlem McComb Place Mousing Project. More recently he was commissioned to prepare plans for a new Central Fire Station in New York, one of his last works.
Mr. Amon worked for two years as draftsman in offices in New York and Boston, subsequently established practice in New York in partnership with Carl F. Grieshaber, A.I.A. During one period (1926-27) he served as Art Instructor at the Cooper Union School, and in 1938 was appointed Professor of Architecture at the New York City College.