Owen McGlynn explained

Owen McGlynn (1878 – October 15, 1918) was an architect who practiced in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth. He designed in a variety of styles, including the classical and Gothic revival. His built works included numerous banks, schools and churches.

Biography

McGlynn was born in Stockton, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1878, the son of Daniel and Bridget McGlynn. The father immigrated to the United States in 1866 and worked as a coal miner.^[1] The son was educated at St. Mary's R.C. School in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.^[2] In the 1900 census of Wilkes-Barre, McGlynn gave his age as 23 and his occupation as architect.

Around 1900, McGlynn formed a partnership with an older, more established architect, Benjamin Davey, Jr. That year, they completed the new St. Aloysius R.C. Church in Lee Park, near Wilkes-Barre, to which they each donated a stained glass window. After Davey died in December 1901, McGlynn assumed full ownership of the practice.^[3]

McGlynn married Elizabeth MacDermott on October 17, 1900.^[4] He died on October 15, 1918, of pneumonia brought on as a result of the Spanish flu.^[5]

Architectural works

Among the completed works of Owen McGlynn are the following:

• Rubinsky Building, Market Street Luzerne, Pennsylvania (1897, while employed by Rudrauff & Davey)^[6]
• C.M. Schwab School, Weatherly, Pennsylvania, begun September 1901 and dedicated on September 19, 1903^[7]
• St. Ann's Monastery, Scranton, Pennsylvania (dedicated in March, 1904)^[8]
• 27 South Main Street Office Building, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (completed in 1904)^[9]
• Nanticoke High School, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania (completed in 1904)^[10]
• School and Convent, St. Mary's Church, Washington St., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1905)^[11]
• Convent, St. Vincent's Church, Plymouth, Pennsylvania (completed in 1905)^[12]
• Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, (cornerstone laid October 14, 1906)^[13]
• St. Mary's School, conversion of church to school, Plymouth, Pennsylvania (1907)^[14]
• First National Bank, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania (1907)^[15]
• First National Bank, Lansford, Pennsylvania (1907)^[16]
• First National Bank, Tamaqua, Pennsylvania (1907)^[17]
• Addition to Mercy Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1907)^[18]
• Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church and Residence, Edwardsville, Pennsylvania (1907)^[19]
• Town Hall, Coaldale, Pennsylvania (1907)^[20]
• St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church, Freeland, Pennsylvania (1907)^[21]
• Washington Avenue School, Plymouth, Pennsylvania (1908)^[22]
• Courtright Avenue School (about 1908)^[23]
• Church of the Immaculate Conception, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania (dedicated October 4, 1908)^[24]
• Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary, Scranton, Pennsylvania^[25]
• St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church, McAdoo, Pennsylvania^[26]
• James M. Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (dedicated February 1912)^[27]
• Citizens Bank, Freeland, Pennsylvania (completed July 1913)^[28]

See also

Architecture of Plymouth, Pennsylvania

Notes and References

1. 1900 U.S. Census, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
2. Dwight J. Stoddard, Prominent Men of Wilkes-Barre and Vicinity, 1906.
3. Wilkes-Barre Record, December 13, 1901, p. 16.
4. Dwight J. Stoddard, Prominent Men of Wilkes-Barre and Vicinity, 1906.
5. News: 1918-10-16. Clipped From The Wilkes-Barre Record. 18. The Wilkes-Barre Record. 2021-06-26.
6. "Wilkes-Barre Record", August 4, 1897, p.6
7. Wilkes-Barre Times, June 28, 1905.
8. Wilkes-Barre Times, June 28, 1905
9. Wilkes-Barre Times, October 21, 1904
10. Wilkes-Barre Record, August 5, 1904, page 2
11. Wilkes-Barre Times, October 1, 1904
12. Wilkes-Barre Record, August 5, 1904, page 2.
13. Wilkes-Barre Times, October 15, 1906.
14. Wilkes-Barre Times, January 22, 1907.
15. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908, p.7.
16. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908, p. 7.
17. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908, p.7.
18. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908.
19. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908, p.7.
20. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908, p. 7.
21. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908, p.7.
22. Wilkes-Barre Times, June 17, 1908.
23. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908.
24. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908, p.7
25. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908.
26. Wilkes-Barre Times, April 6, 1908.
27. Wilkes-Barre Record, February 13, 1912, page 5.
28. The Plain Speaker (Hazleton, PA) January 30, 1940, page 6.