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Born: 1/10/1890, Died: 1942 Born in Reading, PA, to William Henry and Rebecca Catherine (Hagman) Dechant, Miles B. Dechant graduated from Reading High School in 1910 and earned his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1915, winning both the Brook Gold Medal and the Harbeson Medal. After graduation from Penn Dechant traveled to Europe, and in 1916 he was one of the four final competitors for a scholarship to the American Academy in Rome. Later, from February to July 1919 he studied at the A.E.F. Art Training Center in France.Back in Reading he was a member of the firm of William H. Dechant & Sons, his father's enterprise. World War I, however, intervened, and he served with the army in France. Again returning to Reading, he developed a practice which included design of the Berks County Courthouse (1932) as well as a number of schools and residences. In the 1920s he was involved with the Hampden Heights Development Company, designing development houses for Palm Street in Reading. In 1938 Dechant won first prize in House Beautiful's competition for designs for remodeled houses in the United States. An accomplished painter and printmaker, Miles B. Dechant exhibited widely in Pennsylvania and Delaware. He was also the winner of the House Beautiful Small House Competition for Remodeled Houses in 1938, a competition for which he had previously received honorable mentions in 1928 and 1930.
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