Francis H. Kimball practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Francis H. Kimball as American architect (1845–1919).
Francis H. Kimball was born at Kennebunk in 1845. His recorded nationality is United States.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Among his best-known works are Trinity and U.S. Realty Buildings, Trinity Building and United States Realty Building. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in United States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Francis H. Kimball died in 1919, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Trinity and U.S. Realty Buildings
- Notable work: Trinity Building
- Notable work: United States Realty Building
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