Sibley College Cornell between 1883 and 1894

Archimedes Russell (June 13,1840 – April 3, 1915) was an American architect most active in the

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area.

Biography

Born in

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and trained under local architect

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, Russell served as a professor of architecture at

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from 1873 through 1881. In the course of his career he designed over 850 commercial and civic buildings in the central New York region, including the David H. Burrell Mansion in

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, a Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival stone mansion. His practice still continues today as King + King Architects, and is New York state’s oldest and the third oldest architectural firm in the United States. He died in Syracuse on April 3, 1915, and was buried at

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in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Work

Russell's work, much of which has been listed on the

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, includes: * Mrs. I. L. Crego House, 1870 * West Sibley Hall, 1870, and McGraw Hall, 1872 at

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* St Lucy Church, Syracuse, 1873 *

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, 1879 * Otsego County (New York) Courthouse, 1880 *

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, 1881 * Third National Bank, aka the Community Chest Building, Syracuse, 1885 *

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, 1889 * Whedon–Schumacher House, Syracuse, 1892; National Register of Historic Places * West Hill School (Canajoharie, New York), 1891–93 * Dey Brothers Building, Syracuse, 1893, a contributing building in the

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* Bastable Theatre, Syracuse, 1893 *

Central Technical High School Central Technical High School, also known as Central Tech, is located on South Warren Street in Syracuse, New York. It was designed by Archimedes Russell, and built in 1900. At that time, it represented the latest in educational building desig ...

, Syracuse, 1900 * Onondaga County Court House,

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, Syracuse, 1904-1907 (with murals by William de Leftwich Dodge) * C. W. Snow and Company Warehouse, 1913 * St. Matthew's Church, East Syracuse, 1915 * St. Anthony of Padua Church, Syracuse

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Archimedes 1840 births 1915 deaths 19th-century American architects People from Andover, Massachusetts Architects from Syracuse, New York Architects from Massachusetts Syracuse University faculty Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery