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Egerton Swartwout

American architect Egerton Swartwout (1870-1943) earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1891 and soon after joined the firm McKim, Mead and White as a draftsman. He and Evarts Tracy, also at the firm, opened their own practice, Tracy and Swartwout, in New York in 1900. The firm operated under various names until Tracy's death in 1922; Swartwout then practiced on his own until 1941. His classical revival buildings include the National Baptist Memorial Church in Washington, D.C.; one of the buildings of the Yale University Art Gallery; the Elks National Veterans Memorial in Chicago; and the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Denver, Colorado. With sculptor Eugene Savage (who painted some of the murals in Elks National Veterans Memorial) he designed the Bailey Fountain in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York. Swartwout wrote several books, including The Classical Orders in Architecture and The Use of the Order in Modern Architecture. He served as president of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects and was a director of the Fine Arts Federation of New York. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy of Design, and the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1931 to 1936, including as vice chairman from 1933 to 1936. Swartwout was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1920.