Julian Abele

• Duke Spotlight: Julian Francis Abele (April 30, 1881 – April 23, 1950) was a prominent African-American architect, and chief designer in the offices of Horace Trumbauer. He was the primary designer of the West Campus of Duke University (1924–54). He contributed to the design of more than 400 buildings, including the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University (1912–15), the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia (1918–27), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1914–28).
   
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• Julian Abele: Honoring a legacy no longer in “the shadows”, by Jocelyn Rogers, American Institute of Architects
   
• Out of the Shadows. Susan E. Tifft, Smithsonian Magazine, February 2005. African-American architect Julian Abele is finally getting recognition for his contributions to some of 20th-century America’s most prestigious buildings