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Milton Bennett Medary AIA Gold Medal Awarded In 1929

 
Milton Bennett Medary

Milton Bennett Medary

Award Name : AIA Gold Medal

Year of Award : 1929

Award for : Architecture

Location : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

 

Milton Bennett Medary was an American architect from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Milton Bennett Medary Jr. was born in Philadelphia in 1874. In 1929, he received the AIA Gold Medal. Medary was a design consultant to several universities, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association, and Mount Vernon. His buildings include the Pennsylvania Athletic Club, Bryn Mawr Hospital, and, with Paul Cret, the Detroit Institute of Arts. Medary served as chairman of the Department of Labor's Housing Corporation during World War I and was selected in 1927 by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon to serve on the Board of Architectural Consultants, which advised the department on the design of the Federal Triangle development. Medary served on the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C.; he was president of both the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Philadelphia chapter, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and was affiliated with the Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture and with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Medary was honored by the AIA with a gold medal in 1929 and by the Philadelphia Art Club with a gold medal in 1927, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Pennsylvania in 1927. He died in 1929. 

 

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