Prentice, Thurlow Merrill

Date of Birth: 1898, 15 Dec
Date of Death: 1985, 22 Jan

Hartford,

Biography: A native of Hartford, Prentice attended Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, Columbia, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Shortly before his death, by which time he was blind, he wrote his recollections of his four years at the Ecole which were published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, providing a decided break from the usual contents of the magazine. His first commission after the Ecole was a French chateau or his parents (K52). Prentice practiced in New York with Adams & Prentice, before returning to Hartford in Malmfeldt, Adams & Prentice for the Federal Building commission (1933) (A63). He remained in his home town as a partner in Ebbets, Frid, & Prentice and Frid, Prentice & Ferguson until his 1965 retirement. He also taught architecture at Yale, 1933-1935.
[T. Merrill Prentice, "Quartz Arts-My Experiences as a Student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris 1924-1928,"" Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 44, no. 4 (Dec 1985): 384-387; HC 24 Jan 1985, sec. C, p. 11.]

Sources: David F. Ransom: "Biographical Dictionary of Hartford Architects" (CT. Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. 54, nos.1-2, Winter/Spring 1989), p. 86.