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Thomas Podmore

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Thomas Podmore (1859–1948) was an architect from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In addition to his lengthy architectural career as an architect, Podmore is noteworthy for his experiments with the fabrication of concrete products.

Early life

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Thomas Podmore was born at Cherrington, Shropshire, England in 1859, the son of a farmer, and was baptized at the nearby village of Tibberton on March 23, 1859.[1] In 1881, he was living on St. Ann Street in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, employed as an "architect's assistant."[2]

Career in America

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Podmore emigrated to the United States about 1883, worked for a few years in New York, then moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. There, in 1886, he joined forces with Albert Hamilton Kipp (1850–1906) to form the architecture firm Kipp & Podmore.[3] The firm dissolved by mutual consent at the end of 1891.[4]

In 1903, Podmore received a patent for a "machine for molding concrete blocks,"[5] and in 1907 founded the Podmore Concrete Co., for the manufacture of concrete blocks by a method of Podmore's own devising.[6]

Podmore retired in 1928 after the completion of his last building, Sprague Memorial Hall, in Kingston, Pennsylvania.[7] He died in 1948.[8]

Principal Architectural Works

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ familysearch.org, English Births & Christenings.
  2. ^ 1881 UK Census, Stoke-upon-Trent.
  3. ^ Wilkes-Barre Record, December 25, 1886, page 1.
  4. ^ Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, December 26, 1891, page 4.
  5. ^ "Patents," The National Builder, November 1904, page 35.
  6. ^ "Notes of the Industry," Rock Products, Vol. VI, No. 10, April 22, 1907, page 48.
  7. ^ The Wilkes-Barre Record, February 3, 1948, page 13.
  8. ^ Wilkes-Barre Record, August 16, 1948
  9. ^ The Sunday Leader, September 11, 1887, page 8.
  10. ^ Wilkes-Barre Record, June 1, 1939, page 4.
  11. ^ Sunday News, June 8, 1890, page 3.
  12. ^ The Plymouth Tribune, October 16, 1891, page 8.
  13. ^ Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, October 18, 1893, Page 8.
  14. ^ The Wilkes-Barre Record, October 19, 1896, page 5.
  15. ^ Dollar Weekly News, December 16, 1899, page 3.
  16. ^ Dollar Weekly News, December 16, 1899, page 3.
  17. ^ The Wilkes-Barre Record, December 18, 1899, page 13.
  18. ^ The Wilkes-Barre Record, April 25, 1903, page 7.
  19. ^ The Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (1917).
  20. ^ Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, January 27, 1911, page 19.
  21. ^ The Evening News (Wilkes-Barre), December 10, 1918, page 1.
  22. ^ The Evening Journal (Wilmington, Delaware), June 29, 1918, page
  23. ^ The Wilkes-Barre Record, October 4, 1922, page 5.
  24. ^ The Wilkes-Barre Record, March 21, 1928, page 17.
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