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[Recreation Park & Pier] Henry Kerr McGoodwin's Entry in the Walter Cope Memorial Prize Competition <I>AIA/T-Square Yearbook</I>, p. 135 (1904)
[Recreation Park & Pier]
Henry Kerr McGoodwin's Entry in the Walter Cope Memorial Prize Competition
AIA/T-Square Yearbook, p. 135 (1904)

Born: 4/5/1871, Died: 1/30/1927

Born in Bowling Green, KY, to Virginia Wooten and Isaac Daniel McGoodwin, Henry Kerr McGoodwin was brother to architect Robert Rodes McGoodwin. He received his B.S. from Ogden College in 1891 and then acquired his architectural education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with his B.S. from there in 1894. While at MIT he came under the influence of French-born and trained C. A. D. Despradelle, who had established an atelier system there. After MIT McGoodwin returned to Kentucky and worked for Harry P. and Kenneth McDonald (McDonald Bros.) from 1896 to 1898, then moved to Charleston, SC, to join the office of Albert Whitney Todd (1899-1900). By 1901 he was engaged with Frank L. Packard on designs for the Ohio State Building for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He then moved to Philadelphia, where his brother Robert was already residing, and became an instructor in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. With this position in architectural education McGoodwin launched his career as an educator, a career which would subsequently take him to Washington University in St. Louis (1904-1906) and the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA (1906-1918). In 1919 he established an independent architectural firm, based in Philadelphia, but returned to Pittsburgh in 1923 when he was appointed chairman of the faculty of the College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute of Technology.

McGoodwin is chiefly known for his influential publication Architectural Shades and Shadows, written while on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.

Written by Sandra L. Tatman.

Clubs and Membership Organizations

  • American Institute of Architects (AIA)
  • Philadelphia Chapter, AIA

School Affiliations

  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Carnegie Institute of Technology
  • Washington University (St. Louis)

 

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