Edouard Frere Champney (May 4, 1874 - June 4, 1929) was an

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

in the United States. He worked on buildings that are now listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

(NRHP) and partnered with various architects including A. Warren Gould at Gould and Champney from 1909 until 1912, and Champney and Remey. He was principal at Édouard Frère Champney, Architect,

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland, Cali ...

, from 1926 to 1929. Champney was born in

Écouen Écouen () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. The 19th-century poet and playwright Pierre-Joseph Charrin (1784–1863) died in Écouen. The artist Loui ...

, France, the son of the American painter James Wells Champney. He was named after his godfather, the French painter Pierre Édouard Frère. Gournay, Isabelle and Crosnier Leconte, Marie-Laure
"American Architecture Students in Belle Epoque Paris: Scholastic Strategies and Achievements at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts"
''The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era'', Vol. 12, No. 2 (April 2013), p. 160, n. 7.

Works

Peace Palace The Peace Palace ( ; ) is an international law administrative building in The Hague, Netherlands. It houses the International Court of Justice (which is the principal judicial body of the United Nations), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PC ...

(1909) * Seattle City Light Office Building (1910) *

Seattle Civic Center The Seattle Civic Center is a building complex in Seattle, Washington whose original master plan was designed by Édouard Frère Champney in 1910. The complex comprises several buildings owned by the City of Seattle and King County, Washington, Ki ...

Plan (1910) * New Richmond Hotel at 308 4th Avenue South in

Pioneer Square, Seattle Pioneer Square is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of downtown Seattle, Washington, US. It was once the heart of the city: Seattle's founders settled there in 1852, following a brief six-month settlement at Alki Point on the far side of ...

(1911)

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listed (Gould & Champney) * Rogers Building (1911), 470 Granville, Vancouver, Canada * Seattle YWCA at 1118 Fifth Avenue and Seneca (1914), NRHP listed * Elks Temple (Tacoma, Washington) (1916) * Women's University Club of Seattle (1922), with

Abraham H. Albertson Abraham Horace Albertson (April 14, 1872 – April 18, 1964) was an American architect who was one of Seattle, Washington's most prominent architects of the first half of the 20th century. He was born in New Jersey and educated at Columbia Univer ...

* St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle (1931) *1001 Terry Avenue Apartment Building in Seattle * Bekins Storage Company Warehouse Project in SeattleEdouard Frère Champney
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Édouard Frère Champney (Architect)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Champney, Edouard Frere 1874 births 1929 deaths Architects from Seattle People from Val-d'Oise French emigrants to the United States