Platt, Charles

Charles Platt

Title

Platt, Charles

Cornish Dates

1889 to 1933

Cornish Residence(s)

S. A. Tracy Homestead
Platt House

Invited By

Henry Oliver Walker

Birth

16 Oct 1861
New York, New York

Death

12 Sep 1933
Cornish, New Hampshire

Non-Cornish Residence

New York, New York

Spouse

Annie Corbin Hoe
Married 10 Apr 1886

Eleanor Hardy Platt
Married 18 Jul 1893

Relations

Eleanor Hardy Platt (wife)
Sylvia Platt (daughter)
William Platt (son)
Roger Platt (son)
Geoffrey Platt (son)
Charles Platt Jr (son)
Grace Lawrence Taylor (niece by marriage)
Edith Lawrence (niece by marriage)
Louisa Lawrence Burlingham (niece by marriage)

Profession

Architect
Etcher

Location Studied

National Academy of Design
Art Students League
Académie Julian

Studied Under

Stephen Parrish
Gustave Boulanger
Jules-Joesph Lefebvre

Affiliations

Society of American Artists
National Academy of Design
Society of Etchers
British Society of Etchers
President, Saint-Gaudens Memorial

Awards

Webb Prize (Society of American Artists, 1894)
Bronze, Exposition Universelle (Paris, 1900)

Masque of Ours

Chronos

Sanctuary Bird Masque

Organizer

Notes

Designed homes for Henry & Laura Walker (1889); Annie Lazarus (High Court; 1890); his own (1890-1912); Grace & Edith Lawrence (1896); Herbert Croly (1897); Mary Smoot (1899); Winston Churchill (1901); Herbert Adams (1901-1903); Emily Slade (1904)

Sources

University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin (Dublin NH: University of New Hampshire, 1985), 102-104.

Colby, Virginia Reed and James B. Atkinson, Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire & the Cornish Colony (Cornish NH: Cornish Historical Society, 2010), 324-333.

Citation

“Platt, Charles,” The Cornish Colony Compendium, accessed September 19, 2024, https://cornishcolony.org/items/show/1.