Résumé

Draftsman, architectural office, Detroit, MI, c. 1920.

Draftsman, Joseph H. Wohleb, Architect, Olympia, WA, 1924-1928.

Principal, Franklin Cox Stanton, Architect, Olympia, WA, 1925-1929;

Stanton and [Joseph] Wohleb, Architects, Bellingham, WA, 1931-1933;

Principal, Franklin Cox Stanton, Architect, Bellingham, WA, 1933-1941; Wohleb and Stanton may have maintained an association from 1930-1941, focusing on Bellingham work. On 04/27/1942, Stanton maintained a lease on office #1411 in the 4th Avenue Building in Seattle, WA.

Principal, Franklin Cox Stanton, Architect, Seattle, WA, 1946-1950; between 1946-1950, Stanton operated an office at 209 Seneca Street.

Specifications Writer, Naramore, Bain, Brady and Johanson (NBBJ), Architects, Seattle, WA, c. 1953-1956.

College

Coursework, University of Michigan (UM), Ann Arbor, MI, 1912-1915; if Stanton attended UM in architecture, he would have trained under Emil Lorch (1870-1963), who became director of the program in 1906. While at the UM, he belonged to the campus Dixie Club, a group celebrating the Southern heritage.

College Awards

Member, Alpha Rho Chi, University of Michigan (UM), Ann Arbor, MI, 1915.

Relocation

Born in La Grange, GA, Franklin Cox Stanton moved to Los Angeles, CA, probably after the death of his father. He lived with his mother, sister and brother in a residence at 429 South Lucas Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles.

Two years later, he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor between 1912-1915. At the outbreak of America's involvement in World War I, he lived at 47 Alexandrine Street West, in Downtown Detroit, MI. He worked as a draftsman for R.H. Marr, a busy architect with offices in the Kresge Building. Employed as a draftsman, Stanton boarded at a rooming house at 685 2nd Avenue in Detroit, MI, in 1920. In 1921, he lived at 64 North Avenue, Highland Park, MI.

In 1930, he lived with his wife and daughters at 6009 6th Avenue NE in Seattle, WA. Ten years later, they resided at 708 17th Street in Bellingham, WA. This house had a value of $10,000, about double the 1940 average.

He resided at 6820 17th Avenue NE in Seattle, WA on 04/27/1942. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives At St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Box or Roll Number: 193, accessed 04/22/2024.)

Stanton's last residence was in Mount Angel, OR, the same city where Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) designed a new library for the Mount Angel Abbey, opened in 1970.

Parents

His father, William L. Stanton (born c. 10/1844 in GA), worked as a grocer in 1900. His mother, Sallie Cox (born c. 06/1854 in AL), managed the house, supervising a staff of three servants in 1900. The eldest child, Frank had a sister, Corinne (born c. 1891 in GA) and W. Lewis (born c.

Spouse

He married Genevieve O'Leary (born 06/12/1894 in Montague, MI-d. 12/28/1986 in Wasco County, OR) on 02/06/1918 in Ann Arbor, MI. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 141; Film Description: 1918 St Clair-1918 Wayne, accessed 04/22/2024.)

Genevieve's father was Irish, her mother from ME.

Children

He and Genevieve had two daughters, Lucie Stanton McCoy(born 07/01/1920 in Ann Arbor, MI-d. 02/03/2013 in The Dalles, OR) and Mary Stanton South (born 05/11/1922 in Ann Arbor, MI-d. 02/20/1995 in Denver, CO).

In 1940, Lucie had completed three years of college, Mary, three years of high school.

Biographical Notes

At age 26, his World War I Draft Registration Card described him as tall and slender, with blue eyes and light brown hair. (At age 51, he stood 6 feet tall and 170 pounds.) On his World War II Draft Registration Card dated 04/27/1942, Stanton wrote in the name of Seattle architect John Paul Jones (1892-1982) as someone who would always know his whereabouts. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives At St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Box or Roll Number: 193, accessed 04/22/2024.)

SSN: 537-12-5000.

• La Grange, GA (Architect's Birth)
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