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From The Kentucky Encyclopedia -
Charles Julian Clarke was born in Franklin
County , Kentucky, on December 16, 1836, the son of Joseph and Harriett
(Julian) Clarke. He was Kentucky's fourth native architect, behind the Shryock
brothers and John McMurtry . Clarke was educated in Kentucky. During the Civil
War he worked in Louisville with Henry
Whitestone and afterward with the Bradshaw brothers, eventually
becoming a partner. After Whitestone's retirement in 1880, some considered
Clarke Louisville's premier designer. In 1882 he became Kentucky's first
architect to join the Western Association of Architects.
Arthur Loomis, a native of
Massachusetts, entered the Clarke office in 1876 and became Clarke's chief
draftsman in 1885. The 1890 Todd Office Building, designed principally by
Loomis, was Louisville's tallest building at the time of its construction. In
1891 Clarke and Loomis established a partnership, which was one of the leading
architectural firms in Louisville for the rest of the century. The Theophilus
Conrad residence on St. James Court and the George A. Robinson residence are
their best residential works; the 1893 Levy Brothers Store at Third and Market
Streets is their most noted commercial structure. They also designed the
Louisville Medical College of 1891 and the 1893 Manual Training School, both
notable institutional buildings. Their Louisville churches include St. Paul's
Evangelical, the German Reformed Evangelical, St. Matthew's, and the First
Presbyterian at Fourth and York streets. Clark died on March 9, 1908, in Louisville
and was buried in the Frankfort Cemetery.
WILLIAM B. SCOTT, JR., Entry Author
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