Stephen Child
Stephen Child (1866–1936) was an American architect and landscape architect. He received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1888 in civil engineering. He served as the deputy street commissioner and superintendent of the sewer department in Newton, Massachusetts between 1891 and 1901.
Stephen Child
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- 1866
- Died
- 1936
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- United States
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- architect
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- Harvard University · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Stephen Child (1866–1936) was an American architect and landscape architect. He received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1888 in civil engineering. He served as the deputy street commissioner and superintendent of the sewer department in Newton, Massachusetts between 1891 and 1901.
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Child studied under Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. At Harvard between 1901 and 1903 and designed several parks in California as well as one of the first proposals for the Cambridge campus of MIT. He also designed the Colonia Solana allotment in Tucson. Buried in Painesville, Ohio.
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Stephen Child is recorded as having studied at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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