Résumé

Principal, Constant-Désiré Despradelle, Architect, Boston, MA, 1893-1905.

Partner, [Stephen R.H.] Codman and Despradelle, Architects, Boston, MA, 1905-1912. As noted in his obituary, Despradelle, a highly influential École des Beaux-Arts-trained architect, won first awards in the University of California Design Competition sponsored by Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919). His obituary in the New York Times noted: "In 1899, he won one of the first awards in the Phoebe Hearst competition for a complete plan for the buildings and grounds of the University of California. Later, he was a member of the Advistory Board for building that university." (See "Noted Architect Dead," New York Times, 09/04/1912, p. 11.)

Teaching

Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture, Cambridge, MA, 1893-1912.

Professional Activities

Member, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA.

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Boston, MA.

Vice President, Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, New York, NY. This group was founded by American graduates of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1894. The society became the central authority in creating design programs for schools of architecture and independent architectural instructional studios across the US in the 1890s. It became the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (BAID) in 1916,

Corresponding Member, Institute de France, Academie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1910.

College

Dipl., École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1882-1886. Despradelle ranked first of the one-hundred-forty candidates that applied for admission in 1882. At the École, he studied in the atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal (1837-1920), who won the Prix de Rome competition there in 1866.

Relocation

Despradelle was born in Chaumont, France, on 05/20/1862.

He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1882.

Despradelle passed away from an illness of about one year at this residence, 382 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. (See "Noted Architect Dead," New York Times, 09/04/1912, p. 11.)