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Edward Austin Kent (February 19, 1854 – April 15, 1912) was a prominent architect in Buffalo, New York. Born in Bangor, Maine, Kent moved with his family to Buffalo after the Civil War, where his father opened a successful department store, Flint & Kent. Kent graduate from Yale in 1875 and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Returning to the U.S. in 1877, he became junior partner in the Syracuse, New York firm of Sillsbee and Kent. In 1884 he returned to Buffalo and remained there for the rest of his career, helping to found the Buffalo Society of Architects and receiving many prominent commissions, including Flint & Kent. In 1912, he took a two-month vacation to France and Egypt and planned on retiring after returning home. He decided to delay his trip home so he could travel on the maiden voyage of the new and luxurious ocean liner, the . ==Notable Works== * Temple Beth Zion (destroyed) - erected in 1890 at 599 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Destroyed on October 4, 1961, when a fire fueled by flammable liquids being used to refinish the pews, destroyed the building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.buffaloah.com/a/del/805/hist/source/5.html )〕 * Chemical No. 5 Firehouse - erected in 1894 in the Art Nouveau style at 166 Cleveland Avenue in Buffalo, New York. * Otto-Kent Building - erected in 1896 in the Beaux-Arts style at 636-644 Main Street in Buffalo, New York adjacent to Shea's Buffalo for his father's department store, Flint & Kent * Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo - erected in 1906 in the English Gothic style at 695 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, New York and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 2015. 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「Edward Austin Kent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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