Clyde Nelson Friz Explained

Clyde Nelson Friz (1867–1942) was an architect in Baltimore, Maryland, who was active in his field from 1900 until his death in 1942. He is noted for designing the main Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch,[1] [2] the Scottish Rite Temple with John Russell Pope,[3] the Standard Oil Building, and numerous residential commissions in Tuscany-Canterbury and elsewhere.[4] [5]

History

Clyde Nelson Friz was born in 1867. From 1887-1890 he attended Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, and was in the School of Fine Arts.[6] [7]

In 1900, he began working in the architecture field, in which he would work until 1942, when he died in November of that year.[8] In 1911, he began a partnership with fellow Baltimore architect Edward Hughes Glidden, forming the firm Glidden & Friz. During their partnership, which ended in 1922, they designed buildings including Tudor Hall Apartments, Essex Hall, Canterbury Hall Apartments, The Esplanade, Calvert Court Apartments, Furness-Withy Building (also called the "Furness House"), and Sydenham Hospital for Communicable Diseases.[9] [10] [11]

He also did the architecture for the main Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch, which opened in 1933,[12] [13] [14] the Scottish Rite Temple with John Russell Pope, and the Standard Oil Building, all in Baltimore.

Later, he worked with his son, Nelson Friz, on the architecture of the Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Maryland and the Loyola Federal Savings and Loan Association building in Baltimore, which later became the Liberal Arts and Policy Building of University of Baltimore.[15] He also entered into a competition to design a new building at Baltimore City College, as did Edward Hughes Glidden, Joseph Evans Sperry, Edward L. Palmer Jr., and many others, but the design contract was awarded to the Buckler and Fenhagen firm in June 1924.

Personal life

He married Ethel E. Murphy.[16] [17] He had three children with her: Clyde M. Friz[18] and Nelson Friz,[19] both of whom were born in 1906, and a daughter, Maynard.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Construction workers completing exterior walls and penthouses of new Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library (view looking southwest), May 1, 1932 . Digital Maryland. Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. February 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240213223731/https://collections.digitalmaryland.org/digital/collection/epfl/id/19. February 13, 2024. live.
  2. Web site: Mayor Howard W. Jackson addressing onlookers at cornerstone-laying ceremony of new Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, January 12, 1932 . Digital Maryland. Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. February 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20200621181105/https://collections.digitalmaryland.org/digital/collection/epfl/id/13/. June 21, 2020. live.
  3. Web site: Scottish Rite Temple . 10 January 2011 . Baltimore Heritage. February 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20170820133340/https://baltimoreheritage.org/issue/scottish-rite-temple/. August 20, 2017. live.
  4. Web site: Fielding. Meg. Hot House: Light-filled Tuscany apartment well-suited for slower lifestyle. Baltimore Fishbowl. March 8, 2022. February 13, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230428133507/https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/hot-house-light-filled-tuscany-apartment-well-suited-for-slower-lifestyle/. April 28, 2023. live.
  5. December 1, 1928 . Construction Activity This Week . The American Contractor . . F.W. Dodge Corporation . 9 . 48 . 31 . February 13, 2024.
  6. Book: 1890 . A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Washington University, With Courses of Study, for the Academic Year 1889-90 . St. Louis, Missouri . Nixon-Jones Printing Co. . 124, 142 .
  7. Book: 1888 . A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Washington University, With Courses of Study, for the Academic Year 1887-88 . St. Louis, Missouri . Nixon-Jones Printing Co. . 142 .
  8. Book: Hille, R. Thomas . 2018 . The New Public Library: Design Innovation for the Twenty-First Century . New York . . 1018 . 978-0-429-83141-6 .
  9. Web site: Edward Hughes Glidden Sr.. The Cultural Landscape Foundation. February 12, 2024. https://archive.today/20240213004534/https://www.tclf.org/pioneer/edward-hughes-glidden-sr. February 13, 2024. live.
  10. Web site: Pousson. Eli. Zell Motor Car Company Showroom: A Stylish Dealership and Showroom on Mount Royal Avenue. Baltimore Heritage. February 12, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20160315145513/https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/540. March 15, 2016. live.
  11. Web site: Steward. Scott C. Keeping memory alive. Vita Brevis. New England Historic Genealogical Society. November 6, 2014. February 12, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20230921200224/https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2014/11/keeping-memory-alive/. September 21, 2023. live.
  12. Web site: Second-floor front corridor of new Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, circa 1932 . . Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. February 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20210428180735/https://collections.digitalmaryland.org/digital/collection/epfl/id/45/. April 28, 2021. live.
  13. 2019 . After a 3 1/2-year, $115 million restoration and revitalization, Baltimore, Maryland's historic Enoch Pratt Free Library reopens . Revitalization . 109 . . RECONOMICS Institute . February 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240213222900/https://revitalization.org/article/after-a-3-1-2-year-115-million-restoration-and-revitalization-baltimore-historic-enoch-pratt-free-library-reopens-to-the-public/. February 13, 2024. live . In 1933, when the EPFL was built...with the open interior plan developed by consulting architects Edward L. Tilton and Alfred M. Githens—both features incorporated by Baltimore architects Clyde and Nelson Friz into the final design.
  14. Web site: "Library Windows" of Baltimore. Library of Congress. 1933. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. February 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20210524040512/https://www.loc.gov/item/2007683583/. May 24, 2021. live.
  15. Web site: Bell. Laura. The History of UB's Buildings: The Liberal Arts and Policy Building. September 24, 2019. Robert L. Bogomolny Library. University of Baltimore. February 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20220705193600/https://blogs.ubalt.edu/library/2019/09/24/the-history-ub-buildings-the-liberal-arts-and-policy-building/. July 5, 2022. live.
  16. News: April 22, 1958 . Deaths: Mrs. Clyde N. Friz . . Salina, Kansas . February 12, 2024 . 19.
  17. News: November 26, 1942 . Clyde N. Friz Funeral Held . . Salina, Kansas . February 12, 2024 . 18.
  18. News: May 24, 1963 . Clyde M. Friz, Architect, Dies . . Baltimore, Maryland . February 12, 2024 . 19.
  19. Book: Giroux, Ann G. . 2015 . Guilford . . . 70 . 9781439652879.

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