F.W. Caulkins
American architect
Died when: 84 years 256 days (1016 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Franklin Wellington Caulkins was a prominent architect in Buffalo, New York.Caulkins was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Dr.Russell Caulkins and Jane Whitbeck and later moved with his family to Toledo, Ohio, where he studied architecture from 1865 to 1870.
From that time until he went to work at the Buffalo office of Milton Beebe in 1875 he worked at the architectural offices of Charles Coots in Rochester, New York, and then at the offices of A.C.
Bruce in Knoxville, Tennessee before returning to Rochester to work briefly for Coots.He established himself as an architect and superintendent in room 8 of the Townsend Block, located at the corner of Main and Swan Streets in Buffalo, in April 1879 and relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1882 to 1885, during which time was a partner (separately) with John L.
Telford and O.P.Dennis.Caulkins returned to Buffalo in 1885, and moved his office into the Chapin Building, where he remained until 1903.In 1878 Caulklins married Jennie Louise Van Slyke (1858–1904) of Rochester, New York, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
He moved to Missouri in 1903, became a widower in 1904 and then married Gertrude B.Smith (1880-1938), with whom he had two more sons and another daughter before they were divorced.
From 1905 he worked in Missouri, Texas and Louisiana until his retirement in 1930.After retiring he lived at the National Elks Home in Bedford, Virginia.
He died in Bedford in 1940.In 1886 he became a founding member of the Buffalo Society of Architects, which was incorporated as the Buffalo chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1890.
Between 1876 and 1881 Louise Blanchard Bethune, one of few female professional architects at the time, worked in his office and for Richard A.
Waite.
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