Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Architect FJ Lauerman House Marinette
Architect New Utrecht Reformed Church and Buildings New York City
1836/00/00 Lawrence Bolton Valk is born at sea in 1836 off the coast of Florida. He will probably grow up in Charleston, South Carolina. Born
1861/05/27 Lawrence B Valk enlist in Company F of the 83rd New York Infantry Regiment. Military
1861/07/04 Lawrence B Valk of Company F of the 83rd New York fight at Harper's Ferry. Military Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Harpers Ferry, WV
1861/11/13 Lawrence B Valk receives a disability discharge. Military
1862/00/00 Lawrence B Valk moves back to New York, marries Ellen Leonard and resumes his architectural practice. The firm initially has offices at 544 Broadway in Manhattan. Life Soho Historic District New York City
1869/00/00 "Architecture for the Country: Valk's Cottages and Villas" by Lawrence B Valk is published. Author
1873/00/00 "Church Architecture: The New Form of a Plan for Churches" by Lawrence Valk is published. In his book, Valk advocates for the adoption of the Akron Plan, a design of pie-shaped classrooms that radiated from a central superintendent's platform. Author
1875/00/00 During the 1870s, Lawrence B Valk maintains an office at 229 Broadway (lost). In the mid-1880s he will moved to a larger space in Brooklyn. Work
1915/10/26 After changing the design to reduce the building cost, Lawrence Valk writes to the church building committee asking to "build it durable and churchly or don't buildit at all." Architect First Presbyterian Church of Eckert Orchard City
1915/11/30 As the building committee proposes more cost reductions, Valk writes them to complain that "This putting up of a barn of a church is a sacrilege to God." Architect First Presbyterian Church of Eckert Orchard City
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