Author: George Shepard Chappell
Alternate names: Walter E.Traprock; Walter E. Traprock
Born: 2 January 1877
Died: 25 November 1946
Bio: He was born and died in Connecticut, USA, studied at Yale, and trained as an architect at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After compiling An Architectural Monograph on Colonial Architecture in Vermont, he wrote more than a dozen mostly humerous books, the last of which was published in 1933.  Many of these were under the pseudonym of Walter E Traprock.

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