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Phelps Barnum

Birth
Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA
Death
17 Jan 1976 (aged 84)
Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
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Father: William Milo Barnum (1856 - 1926)
Mother: Anne Theresa Barnum (1856 - 1928)

Spouse: Catherine Cornelia (Davis) Barnum (1895-1966)

Daughter: Elizabeth Phelps (Barnum) Bill (1923-2007)
Son: William Milo Barnum (1927-)

PHELPS BARNUM, 84, ARCHITECT, IS DEAD

January 19, 1976, Page 32
New York Times

GREENWICH, Conn., Jan. 18 —Phelps Barnum, an architect whose designs included the rebuilt Stoa of Attalos in the Agora, or marketplace, of ancient Athens, died yesterday at his home on Chapman Lane. He was 84 years old.

Mr. Barnum, in partnership with the late W. Stuart Thompson, was the architect also of such buildings as the Bradley Airport terminal in Windsor Locks, the Sterling‐Winthrop Research Institute near Rensselaer, N.Y., and the chapel of the Westminster, School in Simsbury.

Born in Scarsdale, N.Y., Mr. Barnum was a graduate of Westminster, of Yale in 1913 and of the Columbia School of Architecture in 1916. He received the French Croix de Guerre as an ambulance driver for the American Field Service at Verdun in World War I. In World War II he directed for Pan American World Airways the design and construction of 43 airports in Central and South America forming link to the campaign in North Africa.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. James O. Curtis of Blacksburg; Va., and a son, William Milo Barnum,
Father: William Milo Barnum (1856 - 1926)
Mother: Anne Theresa Barnum (1856 - 1928)

Spouse: Catherine Cornelia (Davis) Barnum (1895-1966)

Daughter: Elizabeth Phelps (Barnum) Bill (1923-2007)
Son: William Milo Barnum (1927-)

PHELPS BARNUM, 84, ARCHITECT, IS DEAD

January 19, 1976, Page 32
New York Times

GREENWICH, Conn., Jan. 18 —Phelps Barnum, an architect whose designs included the rebuilt Stoa of Attalos in the Agora, or marketplace, of ancient Athens, died yesterday at his home on Chapman Lane. He was 84 years old.

Mr. Barnum, in partnership with the late W. Stuart Thompson, was the architect also of such buildings as the Bradley Airport terminal in Windsor Locks, the Sterling‐Winthrop Research Institute near Rensselaer, N.Y., and the chapel of the Westminster, School in Simsbury.

Born in Scarsdale, N.Y., Mr. Barnum was a graduate of Westminster, of Yale in 1913 and of the Columbia School of Architecture in 1916. He received the French Croix de Guerre as an ambulance driver for the American Field Service at Verdun in World War I. In World War II he directed for Pan American World Airways the design and construction of 43 airports in Central and South America forming link to the campaign in North Africa.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. James O. Curtis of Blacksburg; Va., and a son, William Milo Barnum,


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