The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-24

The many friends of the late Hon. Phinehas
Barnes, and of his daughter, Mrs. Clara Barnes
Martin, will be glad to read the following no.
tice of Mr.. Martin, taken from the American
Architect and Buildings News of Boston:
Mr. A. C. Martin, architect, died in Boston
"Wednesday, Oct. 20, from the effects of an ac-
cident. He was q member of the American
Institute of Architects, and one of the found
ers of the Boston Society of Architects, of
which he was for some time secretary. He
died in the prime of life, being As years old and
was the architect of many buildings in and
about Boston, country and city dwellings
shops and warehouses, hotels, school houses
and churches He had in early life, il we are
not mistaken, in obedience to his fathers re-
quirements, learned a trade but this was so
and set out on sea voyage. Returning from
this he went to study engineering at the Scien-
tific School of Harvard University, where he
took the degree of S. B. in 1856. He preferred
however to be an architect rather than an en-
gineer, and entered the Office of Mr.. Arthur
Gilman, who then had large practice in Bos-
ton. The amovnt of responsibility thrown up
on him here, and his own active intelligence
helped him to acquire rapidly a thorough
knowledge of an architects work, SO that
when he bryan ON his own account his success
was more than usually quick. Later he went
into partnership with Mr.. S. j. F. Thayer
After eight or ten years of busy practice he
went to Europe in 1867 where he spent year
in professional study and travel, at which time
he dissolved his partnership. Returning to
Boston he continued his professional work ac-
lively till his DEATH He was driving home
with one of his clients after professional con-
sultation when an accident occurred at q
drawbridge which they were about to cross land
Mr.. Martin, getting down from the carriage
was run over by frightened horse, and re-
ceived injuries from which he died four or five
days after.
His scientific bent and his studies in engi-
neering made him til CROUCH constructor, and
led him to give especial study to the subject OF
ventilation of buildings in which he was an
breadth of design and feeling for refinement in
treatment and in detail showed that the prac-
teal did not oyerbear the artistic sense He
made some essays on school-house ventilation,
which were new, and proved very successful.
This probably led to his being called up to de-
sign the large abattoir at Brighton, the first
building of its kind in the country; and one OF
his last works was the building of the new
Park Theatre, Boston, in which he ventured
on some experimental devices for ventilation
which have shown themselves efficient. Mr..
Martin was man of vigorous mind, interested
in many studies, and in all the Ii terature OF
his profession. He was an early contributor to
this journal, and wrote number Of papers for
different societies and occasions. AS a prac-
titoner he was of uncomprOmlSlng upright
ness with keen sense of the interests OF his
clients 1t might be said of him more literal
ly, we suspect than of most architects, that his
clients always returned TO him. To his per-
sonal friends his alert intelligence, his bnoy-
ant disposition, the vivacity and kindly sin
certify of his intercourse will long remain Il
pleasant memory.