Glenn Brown Lecture: An Alexandria Architect's Monumental Vision
April 12

Glenn Brown practiced architecture in both Washington, DC and Alexandria, serving as the first executive secretary of the AIA from 1898-1913. During Brown's tenure, the Institute was instrumental in developing the Senate Park Commission Plan which reasserted the open spaces of the eighteenth-century L'Enfant Plan. As a former assistant of Henry Hobson Richardson, he designed many local buildings and bridges in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Interested in historic structures, he was involved with documenting and restoring many local structures and authored the first comprehensive history of the US Capitol.

Mayor William D. Euille of Alexandria attended and presented our Chapter with a proclamation from the City of Alexandria proclaiming April 9-14 as Architecture Week. Presentations from Tony Wrenn, former archivist for AIA National, and William B. Bushong, Staff Historian at the White House Historical Association explained Brown's contributions. This event was cosponsored by the Lyceum.

Marlene Walli Shade, AIA receives Architecture Week Proclamation from Alexandria Mayor William D. Euille
Kathryn Brown, Photographer

A PDF of the exhibition boards may be viewed by clicking here.

Tony Wrenn speaks at the Glenn Brown Lecture
Kathryn Brown, Photographer

Alexandria Mayor William D. Euille at the Glenn Brown Exhibit
Kathryn Brown, Photographer


Bird's Eye View of Washington from Arlington, VA
McMillan Plan rendering by Francis L. V. Hoppin, 1902
(image courtesy of US Commission of Fine Arts)