New-York tribune., 1922-10-26
Lloyd W arren
Falls to Death
From Window
Architect Plunged From 9th
Floor Apartment While
Walking i,i His Sleep, Is
Theory Held by Brother
Was Subject to Vertigo
Institute of Fine Arts and
Beaux-Arts Society Mourn
Founder and Patron

Lloyd warren, mead OF the AnstltuGe
of Fine Arts, one Of the wealthiest and
best known Of American art patrons
and an architect of international dis
tinction, fell from a window of his
apartment, j West Sixty-fourth Street,
early yesterday and was found dead
hours later by the driver OF a milk
wagon. Mr.. Warren was the brother
of Whitney Warren, also an architect
of world repute. associated with the
firm Of Warren a Wetmore, architects,
OF 16 West Forty-seventh Street.
The first police report made it appear
that Warren was suicide. This theory
was set aside on examination of the
stances attending the death by DR..
Charles A. Gonzales, deputy medical
examiner, who declared it plainly due
to accident, DR.. Gonzales said couch
on which Mr.. Warren evidently had
been sleeping was near the window and
OF: level with the low sill. The ex-
aminer explained that Mr. Warren
might have rolled out of the window
from his couch or have fallen through
il while sleep-walking. Relatives Of MT.
Warren informed DR.. Gonzales he was
subject to somnambulism. The death
was officially recorded as due to acci-
dent.
MiIkman Finds Body
When found Mr.. Warren's body was
huddIed in the delivery alley at the
rear of his apartment, clad in pajamas.
The milkman notified Frederick Will
hams, janitor of an adjoining building
at West Sixty-fourth Street. The body
was removed to the Warren apartment
and medical aid summoned.
fiM,, c1tHaroJ IN yrht1o
motoring near Rome last summer"
Whitney Warren explained. "Since that
he had been subject to fits of vertigo,
but these were transient and he treated
them as of no great consequence. am
sure he fell from the window during
one of these seizures. Nothing was
further from his mind than suicide. He
had everything TO live for-wealth, his
intense interest in art and happy social
connections. My brother also was sub
ject to periodic somnambulism. The
sill of the window from which he fell
is only knee high. There are several
ways in which he might have fallen. ;,
Last night my brother entertained
a group Of friends at dinner in his
apartment. He was intending to en-
tertain other guests tonight. Prepara-
tions for this affair had occupied his
attention for several days"
Friend of Young Artists
Mr.. Warren returned two months
ago from tour of European centers
encouragement he gave aspiring stu
dents and for his liberality in aiding
them. John Gambel Rogers, 36T Lex
ington Avenue, president of the Beaux
Arts Society, under whose auspices the
Institute of Design operates, deplored
Mr.. Warren's death as Il blow to the
organization, He said:
"Lloyd Warren did more for the ad-
vancement of architecture in this
country than any other. He was gem
erous to q fault and devoted to artistic
ideals. His loss will be felt through
out the world of architecture"
Mr.. Warren was born in New York
City. He was fifty-fcur years old, the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. George Henry
Warren. Graduating from Columbia
University in 1888 he went with his
brother, Whitney, to Paris, where both
brothers studied several years in the
Ecole des Beaux Arts under Daumet
and Girault. On his return to the
United States in 1899 Lloyd Warren
took the lead in organizing the Society
OF Beaux, Arts Architects, which since
then has exercised an important in
fuence in American art and architec
ture.
Fostered Educational Work
Although an active member of the
firm of Warren G. Wetmore, of which
Whitney Warren is the head, Lloyd
Warren gave nearly his entire atten-
tion to educational work in connection
with the Beaux Arts Society and it's
various working studios throughout
New York City.
During the late war MIR. Warren in
terested himself in the School of Art