STURGIS, RUSSELL (1836-1909), American architect and art critic, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, on Oct. 16, 1836. He graduated from the Free Academy in New York (now the College of the City of New York) in 1856. He studied architecture under Leopold Eidlitz and then for two years in Munich. In 1862 he returned to the United States. He designed the Yale University chapel and the Farnham and Durfee dormitories at Yale, the Flower Hospital, New York, the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, Albany, and many other buildings. After 1880 he did comparatively little professional work. He was in Europe in 188o-84. For a short time after his return he was secre tary of the New York municipal civil service board. He was president of the Architectural League of New York in 1889-93, was first president of the Fine Arts Federation in 1895-97, and was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the National Sculpture Society, the National Academy of Design, and the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He
lectured on art at Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Peabody Institute of Baltimore and the Art Institute of Chicago. He edited A Dictionary of Architecture and Building (3 vols., 1901-02) and the English version of Wil helm Liiebke's Outlines of the History of Art (2 vols., 1904), and he wrote European Architecture (1896), How to Judge Architec ture (1903), The Appreciation of Sculpture (1904), The Appre ciation of Pictures (1905), A Study of the Artist's Way of Work ing in the Various Handicrafts and Arts of Design (2 vols., 1905) and an unfinished History of Architecture (1906 et seq.). Dur ing his last years he was nearly blind. He died in New York Feb. II, 1909.