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Calvin Thomas Stowe Brent (1854-1899) was an African-American architect, generally thought to be the first to practice in Washington, D.C.. ==Biography== Calvin Thomas Stowe Brent was born in 1854 in Washington, D.C., son of John and Elizabeth Edmondson Brent. He was the seventh of eight children. Calvin Stowe seems to have been named for Calvin Ellis Stowe, the husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe. His father had been born a slave but had earned enough money to buy his freedom, and obtained a government job. In 1847 his father founded the John Wesley AME Zion Church and became the first pastor. He bought land at 18th and L streets, NW Washington where he built the family house in which Calvin T.S. Brent was born. As a young man Calvin Bent played second base on the second team of the "1st Relief Base Ball club of the City of Washington." Brent was apprenticed to the architectural firm of Plowman and Weightman at the age of nineteen, the first known occasion when a black architect apprenticed to learn his profession from a white architect. In 1875 he began practicing as an architect, and during his career undertook over one hundred projects throughout Washington, D.C. Brent undertook most of his work between the mid-1880s and 1893, when the pace of building in Washington, D.C. was hurt by an economic depression. Brent is sometimes listed as both builder and architect on city permits. Probably he combined the two trades rather than specializing in fine architecture, which would have been beyond the means of his clients. He gained commissions to build speculative housing from prosperous clients such as the Wormley family, Dr. John Francis and Douglass Syphax, but was not asked to build homes or churches for the black elite of the city. His father's congregation was a valuable source of architectural commissions. In 1874 Brent married Albertine Jones, daughter of a prosperous feed merchant. They had seven children. John Edmonson Brent, born in 1889 and named after his grandfather, was also an architect and practiced in Buffalo, New York. After Albertine died, Calvin Brent married Laurelia Brown, a widow with a private income. Brent died suddenly in 1899 at the age of 45. In the early 1900s he was held up as an example to aspiring young African-American architects. His Washington, D.C. residence at 1700 V Street, NW is on the African American Heritage Trail of that city, and is marked with a plaque. He lived at this house for a short period in the early 1890s with his second wife Laurelia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Calvin Brent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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