As per our current Database, Horace Trumbauer has been died on Sep 18, 1938 (age 69).
When Horace Trumbauer die, Horace Trumbauer was 69 years old.
| Popular As | Horace Trumbauer |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Age | 69 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Capricorn |
| Born | December 28, 1868 (Pennsylvania) |
| Birthday | December 28 |
| Town/City | Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | Pennsylvania |
Horace Trumbauer’s zodiac sign is Capricorn. According to astrologers, Capricorn is a sign that represents time and responsibility, and its representatives are traditional and often very serious by nature. These individuals possess an inner state of independence that enables significant progress both in their personal and professional lives. They are masters of self-control and have the ability to lead the way, make solid and realistic plans, and manage many people who work for them at any time. They will learn from their mistakes and get to the top based solely on their experience and expertise.
Horace Trumbauer was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Designed much of the campus of Duke University; prominent during the Gilded Age. His designs were harshly criticized during his lifetime, but achieved great acclaim after his death.
He was an apprentice for six years to the Hewitt brothers in Philadelphia; he opened his firm when he was 21. His first notable commission was Grey Towers Castle in 1893.
He employed in 1906 the first African-American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Architecture Department, Julian Abele. He would later make Abele his chief designer.
His father was a salesman. He and Sara Thomson Williams were married in 1903, and he became stepfather to her daughter, Agnes Helena.
He became a wealthy man by catering to his robber baron clients, a segment of the population that Mark Twain harshly critiqued.
