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Harlan Thomas Pollux Variste Kjeld

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Harlan Thomas (10 January 1870 - 4 September 1953) was a prominent Seattle architect in the first half of the twentieth century. From 1926 to the early 1940s he served as Chair of the University of Washington Department of Architecture. He was also a noted watercolorist. Harlan Thomas was born in 1870 in Des Moines, Iowa. His family moved to Fort Collins, Colorado in 1879. Thomas entered the Colorado State College at Fort Collins in 1885, but after the death of his father the following year, he was forced to drop out and apprenticed as a carpenter, subsequently moving to Denver. In 1889 he took a job as a draftsman for a Denver architect, a position he held for two years. In 1891 he returned to Colorado State College; he majored in mathematics and mechanics, and graduated in 1895 with a Bachelor of Science degree. After a year in Denver working as an architect, Thomas married and then spent sixteen months in Europe. While in Paris, he studied with an atelier independent of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Thomas returned to Denver and practiced as an architect in the city for the next decade.