Howard M. Reynolds, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHoward M. Reynolds
American architect
Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1885
Date of Death: 21-Oct-1943
Profession: architect
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Howard M. Reynolds
- Howard Montalbert Reynolds, Sr.
- (June 17, 1885 - October 21, 1943) was an American architect practicing in Orlando, Florida in the 1920s.
- He designed gracefully proportioned, notable public buildings in the prevailing fashionable styles of the 1920s, including Mediterranean Revival, Colonial Revival, Spanish Colonial, Egyptian Revival, Art Deco and Art Moderne.
- Among Reynolds' best known works are a number of educational buildings still in use as schools or community centers in Central Florida.
- Many of Reynolds' suave, stylish buildings have been designated as Orlando Historic Landmarks. Reynolds' was among a small but active group of ten architectural firms listed in the Orlando phone directory in 1926, the others including: Frank L.
- Bodine, Fred E.
- Field, David Hyer, Murry S.
- King, George E.
- Krug, Ryan and Roberts (Ida Annah Ryan and Isabel Roberts) and Percy P.
- Turner.
- This group of architects felt it important to create a distinctive regional architecture, an effort which they described in the Florida journal The Florida Circle in 1924 as follows: "Just as architects of old created styles to harmonize with their environment, so have the architects of Florida been creating, from native motifs, a style that is carefully adapted to the climatic conditions and surroundings of the state.
- This style has an individuality all its own and should have a fitting name to express its origins .
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- The Florida Association of Architects will give a prize of $25.00 for the name selected." On February 21, 1916, Reynolds married Doris Crandall who was born on January 25, 1896 (died 1978).
- They were the parents of three children: Marie (Mrs.
- Harry H.
- Fetters), Howard M.
- Jr.
- (1922-1990) (married Darlene Lentz) and Robert (married Mary Elizabeth Saine).
- Both Howard and Doris Reynolds are buried in Edgewood-Greenwood Cemetery, Apopka, FL.
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