Irving Ray Timlin (December 15, 1880 – October 18, 1955) was an American
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 ...
. He spent his entire career with the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, where he was chief architect during the company's rapid expansion in the first half of the twentieth century. From the 1910s to the 1940s, Timlin designed or co-designed 140 buildings for the company in cities across the midwestern and southwestern United States.
Timlin joined the
Bell Telephone Company
The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 9, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who also helped organize a sister company – the New Engl ...
of Missouri in 1904 as a draftsman in Kansas City. In 1907 he was made assistant equipment engineer, then architect in 1911. Timlin moved to St. Louis, headquarters of Bell Telephone's Southwestern System, in 1917. He retired in 1945.
Timlin was architect or associate architect of several skyscrapers, many of which are still in use. These include
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Oak Tower
Oak Tower, also called the Bell Telephone Building, is a 28-story skyscraper in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Hoit, Price & Barnes, a local firm that conceived many of Kansas City's landmark structures, designed the building in association wit ...
, Kansas City, Missouri;
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Three SBC Plaza (308 S. Akard St.), Dallas, Texas;
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Southwestern Bell Building, St. Louis, Missouri; and
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Southwestern Bell Building (105 Auditorium Cir.), San Antonio, Texas.
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I.R. Timlin, AIAI.R. Timlin, joins the AIA
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20th-century American architects
1880 births
1955 deaths