George Archer (1848–1920) was an American architect. A native of

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, and

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and a graduate of

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, he designed several churches, banks, and other buildings in the

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of the U.S.

Works

Harford National Bank Harford National Bank is a historic bank building located at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. It is a one-story, with day-light basement built in a modified Richardson Romanesque style of glazed red brick and rusticated brownstone. It was de ...

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, the

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, northeast of Baltimore. * Walters Bath No. 2 on the 900 block of Washington Boulevard, in the southwest area of

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in the Pigtown / Washington Village neighborhood. * Two private homes in

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, Maryland on the west side of suburban

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. * Buildings at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, on North Charles Street, (later renamed the

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) * Graham-Hughes House, his 1888 landmark residence on the southwest corner of North Charles and West Madison Streets, facing Washington Place and the famous

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in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood of central

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1848 births 1920 deaths Architects from Maryland Princeton University alumni Archer family (Maryland) {{US-architect-19C-stub