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Silas E. Nelsen (1894 - 1987) was an American architect.〔(Silas E. Nelson ) wewa docomomo〕 He worked for the Tacoma, Washington firm of Heath, Gove, and Bell (see Frederick Heath (architect)) for five years until 1917 when he started his own firm.〔Caroline Gallacci, Bill Evans (Proctor District ) Images of America Edition illustrated Arcadia Publishing, 2008 ISBN 0-7385-4812-X, 9780738548128 128 pages page 54 〕 He designed at least 15 churches, 150 residences, and some of the buildings on the University of Puget Sound campus, as well as designs for several libraries.〔〔 He was also an architect for some commercial buildings.〔 Nelsen's works include the McCormick Branch Library〔Setting It Straight News Tribune Feb 1, 1996〕 and the Everell S. Collins Memorial Library〔The Pioneer, Volumes 10-18 Library Bureau – Architecture – 1947〕 at the University of Puget Sound.〔(50th Anniversary pictoral history ) Collins Memorial Library University of Puget Sound〕 Nelsen and George Gove are credited as the architects for the Tacoma Mausoleum, which is historic landmark on the National Register of Historic Places. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects.〔()〕 ==Background== Nelsen was born in "Stoten" (a likely misspelling of Stoughton, Wisconsin) and went to high school in Portland, Oregon.〔 He did not have formal training in architecture when he went to work for Heath, Gove, and Bell, but was able to start his own firm five years later.〔 His first known project was a Tudor style dwelling at 2420 N. Union Avenue in Tacoma and he followed it with other residential buildings in a "twentieth century period revival styles such as Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival".〔 By the 1930s and 1940s his work became more modern and streamlined in character. He designed a remodeling project for a Sears, Roebuck & Co. Store (1936), designed Fire Station No.2 and No.5 (1935) in Tacoma, and after World War II, he "continued in the Moderne vein with such projects as the Mueller-Harkins Buick Dealership (1948), the Temple Baptist Church (1949), and the Johnson Candy Company Building (1949)."〔 His projects from the 1950s and 1960s include the Grace Moore Library branch (1950) and Fern Hill Library (1950) branches of the Tacoma Public Library system, "an International Style addition to the main Tacoma library (1952), the Tacoma City Light Administration Building (1953), and a Student Center (1959)". His design for the Collins Library at UPS was completed in 1952.〔 Nelsen was also a "coordinating architect for several fraternity buildings on the (University of Puget Sound (UPS)) campus (1961)".〔 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「Silas E. Nelsen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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