Edward Boehmer (1861–1940) was an American-born, London-based architect.

Early life

Edward Boehmer was born in 1861 in

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

, United States. He was educated in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, Germany.

Career

Boehmer co-founded an architectural firm with Percy Christian Gibbs in 1889. Together, they designed Harley House on

Marylebone Road Marylebone Road ( ) is an important thoroughfare in central London, within the City of Westminster. It runs east–west from the Euston Road at Regent's Park to the A40 Westway at Paddington. The road which runs in three lanes in both direction ...

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in 1904. They also designed Cavendish Mansions in West Hampstead, and the Lissenden Gardens mansion estate. They designed Portland Court, located at 160–200

Great Portland Street Great Portland Street in the West End of London links Oxford Street with Albany Street and the A501 Marylebone Road and Euston Road. A commercial street including some embassies, it divides Fitzrovia, to the east, from Marylebone to the west. ...

in Fitzrovia, from 1904 to 1912. Meanwhile, they designed 80 Portland Place in 1909. With Charles G. F. Rees, Boehmer designed the

Deutsche Evangelische Christuskirche The Deutsche Evangelische Christuskirche is a church on Montpelier Place in Knightsbridge, London.'Montpelier Square Area: Deutsche Evangelische Christuskirche, Montpelier Place', in Survey of London: Volume 45, Knightsbridge, ed. John Greenacombe ...

in Knightsbridge in 1904-1905.'Montpelier Square Area: Deutsche Evangelische Christuskirche, Montpelier Place', in Survey of London: Volume 45, Knightsbridge, ed. John Greenacombe (London, 2000), pp. 124-127 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol45/pp124-127 ccessed 7 June 2015

Death

Boehmer died in 1940.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boehmer, Edward 1861 births 1940 deaths Architects from Pennsylvania Architects from London American expatriates in the United Kingdom 19th-century American architects 20th-century American architects American expatriates in Germany