| 1902 |
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 June 18: Julian Abele is the first African American to graduate from the
architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania |
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 March 25: The Philadelphia City Council awards first prize to New York architects Lord & Hewlett in a competition for a Soldiers and Sailors Monument for Logan Square |
| 1903 |
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April 25: Horace Trumbauer marries Sara Thomson Williams |
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March 20: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania authorizes the Free Library to accept
Andrew Carnegie's $1.5 million gift for the erection of 30 branch
libraries |
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April 17: Peter A. B. Widener suggests the City Hall end of the Fairmount
Parkway as the site for the central library building |
| 1904 |
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February: Architectural Record publishes a lengthy account of Horace
Trumbauer's work |
