The Biographical Dictionary of America/Atwood, Charles B.

ATWOOD, Charles B., architect, was born at Charleston, Mass.. May 18, 1849, and in 1866 became a pupil in an architectural office in Boston. After passing through the scientific school at Harvard, he established himself as an architect, and won many first prizes for designs for public buildings. In 1875 he went to New York city. He designed the interior decorations of many of the palatial residences throughout the country, notably that of Mrs. Mark Hopkins, in San Francisco, and the residences of William H. Vanderbilt and David Dows in New York city. He won the prize of five thousand dollars for the best design for a new city hall in New York. He planned the public library building in Boston, and furnished the designs for the house of Mrs. Mark Hopkins, in Great Barrington, Mass. In 1891 he went to Chicago, where he designed the Art Palace at the World's Fair, now the Columbian Museum, also the peristyle, and the great terminal station. He died at his home near Chicago, Dec. 19, 1895.