Allison Owen (1869-1951)

Name

Owen, Allison

Personal Information

Birth/Death:    deceased 1951 January
Gender:    male
Occupation:    American architect
Location (state):    LA

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AIA Affiliation

Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1909-decease
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) 1926

Biographical Sources

Related Records

Partner of Collins Cere Diboll, Sr.

Archival Holdings

The American Institute of Architects Archives
    Membership file may contain membership application, Fellowship nomination, related correspondence. Contact the AIA Archives at archives@aia.org for further information.
Southeastern Architectural Archive, Tulane University Libraries
Collection 107. Allison Owen, Sr. Drawings
Original drawings by New Orleans architect Allison Owen, Sr. (1869-1951). Most are charcoal sketches made by Owen while a student at Tulane University in the late 1880s. Sketches are mostly of plaster casts of classical statuary and architectural fragments. There are also two watercolor drawings of designs for the Confederate Memorial Hall, built in 1891. Owen was a partner in the firm of Diboll and Owen (Collins Cere Diboll, Sr., 1869-1936), one of the leading architectural firms in early twentieth-century New Orleans. For more information, visit http://seaa.tulane.edu
Southeastern Architectural Archive, Tulane University Libraries
Collection 134. Diboll and Owen, Limited Office Records
Records from the office of New Orleans architects Diboll and Owen [Collins Cere Diboll, Sr., 1869-1936; Allison Owen, Sr., 1869-1951]. Records include a few original tracings and blueprints for project drawings of New Orleans buildings. Included are drawings for the former New Orleans Public Library at Lee Circle, Milne Boys Home, and Orleans Parish Criminal Courts Building. Diboll and Owen collaborated with other New Orleans architects on the Calliope and Lafitte Public Housing Projects, and the 1939 plans also reside in the collection. For more information, visit http://seaa.tulane.edu

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