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William B. Ellicott was born in 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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St. David's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore
WILLIAM B ELLICOTT
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He was educated at the Penn Charter School and Haver-ford College, and after a, course of architectural study at the University of Pennsylvania continued his training in Paris at the Atlier Pascal.
Career
Mr. Ellicott began professional practice in Portland, Oregon, in 1889, and for five years maintained an office under the firm name of Ellicott & Lazarus. Moving to Baltimore soon after the turn of the century he joined William W. Emmart (d. 1949) in partnership and continued that association until his retirement. In his work in the latter city Mr. Ellicott established a reputation as a designer of fine suburban homes, also was the architect of a number of public and business structures, among which were St. David's Protestant Episcopal Church and the Colonial Trust Company Building.
Subsequent to his retirement to private life at the age of sixty-four he devoted much of his time to civic and public activities. An exponent of the so-called "Maryland State Plan" Mr. Ellicott worked actively for its establish¬ment for a number of years, and is credited as being largely responsible for the creation by the U. S. Congress in 1926 of the National Park Capitol and Planning Commission. He also organized the first Art Exhibition in Baltimore, and aided in establishing a Museum of Art in the city, of which he afterwards served as Trustee for several years.
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