Irving Ray Timlin (December 15, 1880 – October 18, 1955) was an American

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. He spent his entire career with the

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, 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

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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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, Kansas City, Missouri; * Three SBC Plaza (308 S. Akard St.), Dallas, Texas; *

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, St. Louis, Missouri; and *

(105 Auditorium Cir.), San Antonio, Texas.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Timlin, I. R. 20th-century American architects 1880 births 1955 deaths