Ehrlich, Matthew Benjamin (1906 - 1979) -- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings

Born in New York City, the son of Benjamin Ehrlich, Matthew Ehrlich graduated from Swainboro High School in Swainboro, GA, 1922 before attending Syracuse University in 1922-1924. He went on to study architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a B. Arch. in 1927. He also studied with the T-Square Club in 1927-1929, earning a BAID Silver Medal in Archaeology, 1928. He was a teaching assistant in architecture at Penn in 1925-6.

Ehrlich worked in a number of Philadelphia firms: Thomas, Martin & Kirkpatrick (1925-1927), Frank E. Hahn (1927-1929), and Howe & Lescaze (1931-1934), becoming a partner in Carver, Davis, Ehrlich & Poole in 1939. From 1953 until about 1963, he was a partner in Ehrlich & Levinson. He retired in 1977. Ehrlich taught at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art as a lecturer and critic. He joined the national AIA in 1948 and was a member of the Philadelphia Chapter through 1963.

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