Arthur Cotton Moore, defining architect of Washington, dies at 87

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He died last Sunday, September 4. Even as late as Sunday morning a week later, the 11th, his Wikipedia entry had not been updated. My IP address is blocked from editing, so I can't do anything about that.

Arthur Cotton Moore, defining architect of Washington, dies at 87

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Arthur Cotton Moore, defining architect of Washington, dies at 87
The sixth-generation Washingtonian led a celebrated renovation of the Library of Congress as well as the development of Georgetown’s Washington Harbour.

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Arthur Cotton Moore

Portrait of Arthur Cotton Moore

Born: April 12, 1935; Washington, D.C.
Alma mater: Princeton University, Princeton University School of Architecture
Website: https://www.arthurcottonmoore.com

Arthur Cotton Moore (born April 12, 1935) is an American architect who has achieved national and international recognition for his contributions to architecture, master planning, furniture design, painting, and writing.

Moore began his professional practice in 1965 and is best known for expanding the purview of the country’s nascent Preservation Movement, from the restoration of historic manor houses to re-purposing urban industrial structures. His first project––Canal Square, in Washington D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood––was the earliest recognized manifestation of combining an old mercantile building with major new construction.

Moore is also known for the Washington Harbour development on the Potomac River in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., the Goh Annex of the Phillips Collection also in Washington, D.C., and the renovation and modernization of the Thomas Jefferson and John Adams buildings of the Library of Congress, the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, and the renovation of Washington D.C.'s tallest residential building, the Cairo Hotel.

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Early life



"Tanglebank," Arthur Cotton Moore's childhood home.

Arthur Cotton Moore spent his early years at “Tanglebank,” his grandparents’ Victorian house off Connecticut Avenue in the Kalorama neighborhood of NW Washington, D.C., now the site of a new People's Republic of China building providing housing for its embassy personnel.

Moore’s maternal grandfather was Admiral Ridley McLean. His father, Captain Charles Godwin Moore, Jr., served during both World Wars. His mother was the granddaughter of Thomas Monroe Gale, whose house in the Kalorama neighborhood is now the Myanmar Embassy. Moore is a relative by marriage of Senator James McMillan of Michigan, Chairman of the 1900 McMillan Commission, which authored the second Master Plan of the National Mall (McMillan Plan).

Education

• 1954 St. Albans School, Washington, D.C.
• 1958 Princeton University, A.B. cum laude
• 1960 Princeton University School of Architecture, M.F.A.

Career

• Skidmore Owings & Merrill: New York. Summers (1956–1958)
• Ketchum & Sharp: New York. (Summer 1959)
• Satterlee & Smith: Washington, D.C. (1960–1961)
• Chloethiel Woodard Smith & Associates: Washington, D.C. (1961–1965)
• Arthur Cotton Moore/Associates: Washington, D.C. (1965 to present)

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I thought he had designed the canopies at the entrances to Metrorail stations, but that was someone else.

Metro plans a unique canopy for Dupont’s north entrance
TRANSIT By Neil Flanagan (Contributor) June 10, 2014

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History of the canopy program

The engineers of the original Metro system didn’t think it would be cost-effective to cover all the system’s many escalators. But by 1999 increasing escalator breakdowns and a change to DC’s building code required WMATA to build canopies over its entrances.

After a bad reaction to early canopies at Petworth and Glenmont, Metro held a design competition. They ultimately chose a simple glass design by Lourie & Chenoweth Architects because it evokes stations’ coffered ceilings and can be easily adapted to multiple sites.

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Schematic drawing of the standard Metro escalator canopy. Image from WMATA.

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