Among his best-known buildings are Recreation Pier at Fell’s Point (now a luxury hotel, the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore) at 1715 Thames Street, and the SS.

On September 12, 1891, he left the U.S. for Paris and spent the next six years studying at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts where he received the French Government Diploma for architecture in December 1897, the ninth American to receive this award.

[1] In 1898, he received an honorary mention in the Salon, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He became a citizen and resident of the State of Maryland on October 27, 1908, at which time he gave his address as "Mt.

On the morning of January 1, 1930, he committed suicide in his studio behind the Wickford Road house, apparently due to worry over ill health and financial losses in the 1929 stock market crash.