WARREN, WHITNEY (1864— ), American architect, was born in New York city, on Jan. 29, 1864. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, under Daumet and Girault he began the practice of architecture in New York, later becoming associated with Charles D. Wetmore in the firm of Warren and Wetmore. They specialized in railway architecture, hotels, business buildings and residences and were architects for the New York Central, Michigan Central, Canadian Northern and Erie railways. Their numerous structures in New York city
include the Chelsea docks, the Grand Central terminal and the hotels Belmont (1905), Vanderbilt (I 91 0), Biltmore (1912) and Commodore (1916). In 1920 he was chosen by the international committee to reconstruct the library of the University of Louvain, destroyed by the Germans in