Louise Caldwell Murdock Explained
| Louise Caldwell Murdock |
| Birth Date: | 1857 |
| Birth Place: | Caneada, New York[1] [2] |
| Death Date: | 1915 |
| Death Place: | Wichita, Kansas |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Studied with Frank Alvah Parsons, founder of the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Art Interior Architecture (1906) |
| Significant Buildings: | Wichita Public Library, Caldwell-Murdock Building, Murdock Theater[3] |
| Significant Projects: | 20th Century Club of Wichita |
Louise Caldwell Murdock (18571915) was an American interior designer / architect.[1] Louise's father, J.E. Caldwell brought his family to Wichita from New York in 1871 and opened a Queensware (a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood) store on North Main Street.[4] She married Roland Pierpont Murdock in 1877[1] and founded the Twentieth Century Club with him in 1899 in Wichita.[5] She served as its president until 1906.[1] After her husband's death in 1906, she studied interior design with Frank Alvah Parsons in New York City, then returned to Wichita Kansas and designed and built the Caldwell Murdock building on East Douglas, which at seven floors became Wichita's tallest building.[3]
Further reading
- News: September 20, 1939 . Wichita Gets Gift of American Art: Paintings by 8 Well-Known Artists Purchased for Its Municipal Museum . The New York Times . 28 . .
- News: Ross . Novelene . January 1, 1999 . A celebration of American painting . https://web.archive.org/web/20160410001638/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-37649315.html . dead . April 10, 2016 . USA Today . April 11, 2015 . HighBeam Research .
- News: Updike . R. . February 3, 1999 . At TAM: Glimpses of a Fertile Era in Art . Seattle Times.
- Book: 2010 . Wichita Carnegie Library: A Vision Restored ; a Landmark Preserved . Fidelity Bank.
- Book: Louise Caldwell Murdock (1858-1915) . Muhr . Jeffrey . Biography and Genealogy Master Index . 2014 . Gale.
Notes and References
- Web site: State Register Listing: Twentieth Century Club . Kansas State Historical Society.
- Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book, Volume 51
- Linderman . Carrie . March 2012 . Womens Focus: A Local Historian's Look at National Women's History Month . Womens Focus.
- Galland, Bess Innes. Some Recollections of Louise Caldwell Murdock, pg. 5.
- Tharp . BD . May 2009 . Twentieth Century club celebrates 100th anniversary . Active Aging . 12 . Bonnie Tharp.
