Rudolph Benz (1847 - 1906) was an American architect, primarily in the city of Mobile, Alabama. He immigrated from Germany. He lived at 201 Rapier Avenue in Mobile. He was buried at Magnolia Cemetery [1]
Works
edit- Mobile Cotton Exchange (1886), burned in 1917[2]
- Baldwin County Courthouse (1887) in Daphne, Alabama
- Mobile County Courthouse (1889), its fifth, demolished in 1950s[3]
- Pincus Building (1891)[4] on Dauphin Street
- Scheuermann Building (1893),[5] at 203 Dauphin Street[3]
- German Relief Hall (1896)[3]
- J. F. Hutchisson mansion[citation needed]
- Bienville Square fountain[5]
- Pollock Building (1907) at 412 Dauphin, NRHP listed Street[5]
References
edit- ^ "Rudolph Benz: Mobile's Gilded Age Architect" (PDF). 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ Sledge, John (June 4, 2014). "Bygone Structures".
- ^ a b c Elizabeth, Barrett Gould (Fall 1987). "From Fort to Port: An Architectural History of Mobile, Alabama, 1711-1918; The High Victorian Period, 1880-1900" (PDF). Gulf Coast Historical Review. 3 (1).
- ^ "Rudolph Benz | Companies". Emporis. Archived from the original on May 10, 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
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