L. Bancel LaFarge

[1] Louis Bancel LaFarge was born into a prominent American family.

His grandmother was a granddaughter of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin.

[5] LaFarge was a graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Architecture.

[3] He married the advertising executive Margaret Hockaday,[6] with whom he had three children: Timothy, Benjamin, and Celestine.

[1] LaFarge established himself as an architect in New York specializing in domestic architecture.