Paul Bartholomew

From the beginning of his practice, he received a variety of high-profile commissions for both residential and non-residential structures, mainly in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

His buildings typically had historicist facades, with neoclassical or Italianate ornamentation covering a modern framework.

During the Great Depression, a particularly trying time for architects, he received the commission to design Norvelt, which was a new town created as part of President Roosevelt's New Deal policies.

[2] He graduated from Gettysburg College in 1905, and then studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received a second degree in 1908.

One source claims the partnership commenced in 1915,[3] while Bartholomew's entry in an architects' directory states it began in 1920.