Edmund Bailey Funston, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdmund Bailey Funston
American architect
Date of Birth: 19-May-1868
Date of Death: 10-May-1933
Profession: architect
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Edmund Bailey Funston
- Edmund Bailey Funston (May 19, 1868 – May 10, 1933) was an American architect in Racine, Wisconsin.
- He is credited with designing the Badger Building (1916).
- He was the founder of Edmund B.
- Funston Company Architects.
- Funston was born in Champaign County, Illinois on May 19, 1868 to John H.
- Funston and Elizabeth E.
- (Bailey) Funston.Funston graduated in 1892 with a Bachelor of Science architecture degree from the University of Illinois.
- He taught in a manual training school in Colorado for two years before working in New Orleans and Atlanta.
- He worked as superintendent of construction at Jos.
- C.
- Llewellyn of Chicago for five years, including work on the construction of five buildings at the University of Illinois.
- He also superintended the rebuilding of the Advance Threshing Machine Company's building in Battle Creek, Michigan.Funston came to Racine and was associated with A.
- Arthur Guilbert as a partner from 1905 until 1915.
- The firm of Guilbert & Funston, Architects designed the Welsh Presbyterian church (Racine, Wisconsin), the First Methodist Church (Racine, Wisconsin), Grange Avenue Methodist Church, the First National Bank building, the Commercial & Savings Bank building, N.
- D.
- Fratt School, Elks club house (Racine, Wisconsin), Racine Country Club building, Fire engine houses Nos.
- 1 and 2, and an office building for the Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company.After Guilbert & Funston dissolved in 1915, Funston organized the firm of Edmund B.
- Funston Company.
- P.
- T.
- Beicher was his assistant.
- In 1915-16 he oversaw the design and construction of the 4-story Badger office building.
- He also designed the manufacturing plant for the Hamilton Beach Manufacturing Company, remodeled the Masonic temple, and designed an office building for David B.
- James S.
- Company.He founded the Funston Long Distance Telephone Company and constructed a telephone toll line from St.
- Joseph, Missouri east through Wisconsin.
- They acquired the control of the Missouri River Telephone Company and the Dakota Telephone & Electric Company, and Funston became president of all three.Funston married Miss Ella M.
- Kephart of Ravenswood, Chicago on August 23, 1905.
- Their daughter Jeanette was born November 27, 1915.
- Funston died at his residence in Coral Gables, Florida on May 10, 1933.
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