![]() ![]() The company was responsible for the design of such Philadelphia buildings as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Land Title Building (which came to house the offices of Trumbauer’s firm), and a number of mansions, including Edward Stotesbury’s Whitemarsh Hall. He spent his entire professional life with this large, nationally known firm, advancing to the position of chief designer in 1909 and taking over the office after Trumbauer’s death in 1938. ![]() Abele returned to Philadelphia and the Horace Trumbauer firm in 1906. There is no record of his study at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, which is sometimes reported, although French architecture would be his lifelong passion. He did all this while working all four years as a designer with the Louis Hickman Architectural Firm, juggling his job with afternoon and evening classes at the University.Īfter graduating from Penn in 1902 with his degree in architecture, Abele was immediately engaged by established architect Horace Trumbauer, who is said to have helped to finance the young architect’s three years European travel and study. During his senior year, Abele served on the student yearbook committee and as president of the Architectural Society. An outstanding student, Abele received a number of prizes during his undergraduate years at Penn, including first prize in competition for the Library Tablet to commemorate alumni gifts, first prize in competition for the Conklin Memorial Gateway at Haverford College, first mention from the Beaux Arts Society, the Arthur Spayde Brooke Memorial Prize and the T-Square Club Prize. Young Julian Abele was educated at the Institute for Colored Youth, Brown Prep School and the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art before enrolling at the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. Abele, an engineer with the Philadelphia Electric Company Robert Jones Abele, who graduated at the top of his 1895 class at Hahnemann Medical College Charles Abele, a brass sign maker who worked with artisan Sam Yellin. Through his mother Adelaide, Julian was a descendant of Reverend Absalom Jones (1746-1818), founder of the Free African Society and of St. Julian Francis Abele, born in Philadelphia on April 30, 1881, was the youngest of eight children born to Charles and Mary Adelaide Jones Abele. President of the student Architectural SocietyĪ well-known Philadelphia architectural designer, Abele was the first black graduate of what is today the School of Design.First African American graduate of the Graduate School of Fine Arts. ![]()
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