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- Henry Rutgers Marshall (born July, 22, 1852 in New York City, Died May 3, 1927 in New York City with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York) was an American architect and psychologist. He was born in New York City; graduated from Columbia University in 1873; and became a practicing architect in New York in 1878. He lectured on æsthetics at Columbia in 1894-95 and at Princeton in 1915-16. Though Marshall achieved success as an architect and was president of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (1902-04), he became better known perhaps as a psychologist. Rutgers and Hobart colleges gave him honorary degrees. He served as president of the American Psychological Association in 1907. His writings include: Pain, Pleasure, and Æsthetics (1894) Æsthetic Principles (1895) Instinct and Reason (1898) Consciousness (1909) War and the Ideal of Peace (1915) Reference: Obituary from The New York Times dtd May 4, 1927 Henry R. Marshall, Architect, 74, Dies Municipal Art Commission's Executive Secretary for the Last Eight Years. Honored By Universities Former Head of the American Psychological Association - Author of Many Works. Henry Rutgers Marshall, a leading architect of this city and Executive Secretary of the Municipal Art Commission, died of pneumonia yesterday in the Roosevelt Hospital at the age of 74. For almost half a century Mr. Marshall had been a practicing architect here. In 1902 he became President of the New York branch of the American Institute of Architects. He had lectured on art and architecture at Columbia, Yale and Princeton, and had written many books and magazine articles. The last years of his life were largely absorbed in the work of the Municipal Art Commission. He was appointed as a Commissioner in 1902 and served as the board's architectural member until 1905. Fourteen years later, in 1919, he accepted the post of Executive Secretary, and he became in many respects the chief executive of the commission. To his picturesque office in the tower of the City Hall there came plans, blueprints and designs of all descriptions for statues, school buildings, bridges, water works and other municipal structures which needed an expert architect's approval. Mr. Marshall was one of those whose duty was to select the good designs from the bad, to prevent inartistic or unsuitable structures from being erected and to set high standards for municipal architecture. Incidentally, the upper part of the City Hall's rotunda became, under Mr. Marshall's direction, something of an architectural museum, with photographs and paintings of notable works of architecture in Greater New York. He was born in New York on July 22, 1852, the son of Henry Perry and Cornelia E. Marshall. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College in 1873 and a Master's degree three years later. Almost to the day of his death he was interested in Columbia affairs, and he made his home at the Columbia University Club, 4 West Forty-third Street. In 1894 he joined the Columbia Faculty for a year, lecturing on aesthetics. He lectured at Yale in 1906 and 1907, and at Princeton from 1915 to 1917. Besides being an officer of the American Institute of Architects, Mr. Marshall was elected in 1907 to the Presidency of the American Psychological Association. He gave much attention to the theory of art and to philosophy. He made the principal address on esthetics at the St. Louis International Congress of Arts and Sciences in 1904. In the same year Rutgers University conferred on him the degree of L. H. D. , and in 1910 Hobart College conferred that of Doctor of Science. Robert W. De Forest, President of the Municipal Art Commission, said yesterday that Mr. Marshall's death was a distinct loss to the city, as well as to his friends and admirers. "His education as an architect and his personal relations with architects fitted him peculiarly to deal with the projects which come before the Art Commission, most of which are architectural," said Mr. De Forest. "He cultivated sympathetic relations with the members of the different city departments with whom he came in contact. It is rarely that any man of talent finds a position for which he is peculiarly fitted, and it is still more rare that such a position finds such a man. "The office will be filled by some successor, but no one can be found qualified to take the place which Mr. Marshall made for himself. " Mr. Marshall's wife, Julia Robbins Gilman, died in 1888. Two sisters, Miss Julia P. Marshall and Miss Cornelia E. Marshall, survive him, as do his grandchildren, children of his daughter, the late Mrs. C. Minot Weld. Funeral services will be held in Calvary Episcopal Church, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street, tomorrow at 10:30 A. M. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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