Mr. Allen studied at MIT and Columbia University and obtained a degree in architecture. He was a partner in the Boston firm of Ewing and Allen, and designed the Architects Building of New York and Science Laboratory at Vassar College. During the World War he was an architect for the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy Department. He designed and oversaw the construction of the barracks and cantonments in Brooklyn, Pelham Bay, Ione Island, and Lake Denmark, NJ, hospitals at Philadelphia and League Island, and workmen's camps at Toledo and Cincinnati.
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Mr. Allen studied at MIT and Columbia University and obtained a degree in architecture. He was a partner in the Boston firm of Ewing and Allen, and designed the Architects Building of New York and Science Laboratory at Vassar College. During the World War he was an architect for the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy Department. He designed and oversaw the construction of the barracks and cantonments in Brooklyn, Pelham Bay, Ione Island, and Lake Denmark, NJ, hospitals at Philadelphia and League Island, and workmen's camps at Toledo and Cincinnati.
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Interment book #3, entry #4165
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Interment book #3, entry #4165
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Son of Franklin Ripley and Josephine Parkhurst Allen
"A verray parfit gentil knight"
[from Canterbury Tales by Chaucer]
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