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Born: 4/25/1903, Died: 5/19/1990 Robert A. C. Gilfillan was born in Philadelphia, the son of Arthur A. and Gertrude Clark Gilfillan. He attended Frankford High and Brown Preparatory schools in the city before enrolling in Lafayette College in Easton, PA, where he studied refrigeration between 1925 and 1928. Between 1925 and 1927 he worked for the Welsback Company, a refrigeration manufacturer, designing machine dies and installing and servicing domestic and commercial refrigerators. Apparently unsatisfied by this line of work, he entered the office of architects Marshall & Tyler in 1927, where he contributed details to residential projects. Gilfillan left Lafayette without completing a degree, and entered the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1928. He completed a B. Arch. in 1934 and returned briefly to refrigerator installation (presumably because architectural work was slim in the Depression), working for the Kelvinator Corporation in Philadelphia through 1935. That same year, Gilfillan again found architectural employment, drafting and designing for architects H. Bartol Register and Edmund Krimmel, who worked in association for the Highland Homes Development in Wayne, PA, a project funded through the Public Works Administration. During World War II, Gilfillan served with both the U.S. Army and Navy. He was later a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve.There is little information about Gilfillan's post-war career beyond his association with Montgomery & Bishop, Allan A. Berkowitz, and Ezekiel Levinson for the Liddonfield Housing project in Philadelphia in 1953. Gilfillan was a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the AIA in 1951, and again from 1960 to 1970; he joined the national AIA in 1960. Sometime after 1950, he formed a partnership with Albert T. Maymon. Gilfillan was a long-term resident of the Main Line.
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