Louis Magaziner
Louis Magaziner was born in Humenne on March 7, 1877.
He attended Philadelphia's magnet school, Central High School,
and later earned a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
He was the first of Magaziner to attend college, graduating in 1900.
At Penn, Louis was a classmate
and friend of Julian Abele, the first black architect to graduate from that
University.1 Louis was the only
Jew in the program at the time, and their shared status as disparaged
minorities in the predominantly wealthy WASP program was the beginning of a
lifelong friendship.
Louis designed a wide variety of buildings, including hospitals such as Mt.
Sinai Hospital, movie palaces such as the Uptown and the Midway, and college
buildings such as the Hillel at Pennsylvania State University. Louis performed
design work on the store and warehouse for the Markovitz Bros. department
store, a business owned by Sadie's husband and his
brothers. Louis's biography and further pictures can be found on the
Philadelphia
Architects and Buildings website.
On October 26, 1910, Louis married Selma Jonas, an American-born daughter of
German immigrants. They had three children.
Louis died on May 19, 1956 at the age of 78, after a long battle with
cancer. He was 79 years old.
Children of Louis Magaziner and Selma Jonas are:
- Henry Jonas Magaziner (b: 13 SEP 1911; d: 25 DEC 2011)
- Lena Louise Magaziner (b: 30 DEC 1914; d: 7 DEC 2007)
- Richard Herman Magaziner (b: 27 AUG 1918; d: 22 APR 2010)
Henry Jonas Magaziner
Henry Jonas Magaziner was born in Philadelphia on September 13, 1911. Like his
father, Henry attended Central High School, then earned a B.A. in architecture
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1936. For the first few years after
graduation, Henry worked as a draftsman at Louis's firm, then he spent several years
working at other firms around the country. He returned to Louis's firm in
1946, and the firm became known as Louis & Henry Magaziner. Henry practiced as
Magaziner Architects after Louis's death.
Henry married Reba Henkin in Philadelphia on June 19, 1938. Reba was born in
Philadelphia on February 4, 1914, the daughter of Russian immigrants. They had
two children, both living.
Henry had a deep devotion to historic preservation, perhaps due in part to
watching his father "modernize" buildings of styles that were hated in the 1930s but were
later revered. Henry was a key figure in the efforts to preserve Germantown's
Victorian Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion. He worked as an architectural historian
for the National Park Service from 1972 to 1987. In 1985, he was a founding
member of the Delaware Valley chapter of the Association for Preservation
Technology International. Henry earned several awards for his historic
preservation work, and the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of
Architects (AIA) created an annual historic preservation award in his name.
Henry remained active in the AIA Philadelphia's historic preservation
committee well into his 90s.
In 2000, at the age of 89, Henry wrote his first book, The Golden Age of
Ironwork. The book discussed the use of cast iron in architecture, an industry
that was centered in his hometown of Philadelphia. He followed that with a
children's book about the Liberty Bell in 2007, at the age of 96.
Henry's wife Reba died in Philadelphia on November 10, 1997. Henry died at
Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia on Christmas day in 2011 at
the age of 100.
Lena Louise Magaziner Pincus
Lena Louise Magaziner was born on December 30, 1914 in Philadelphia.
She was one of the first women to study economics at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1936.
She later earned a library degree at U.S.C. and worked as a reference librarian
until she was 82 years old.
On September 24, 1939, Lena married Irwin Jack Pincus.
Jack was born on December 2, 1912 in Braddock, PA.
Jack was a gastroenterologist and a professor of medicine.
He was the first cousin of Irwin Nat Pincus, who married
D. Arthur Magaziner's daughter Marjorie a
few years later. Lena and Jack lived in Beverly Hills from the 1950s
until his death. They had three children, all still living.
Jack died on October 12, 2000 while they were living in Beverly Hills,
California. Lena moved to the Boston area after his death, where their
oldest son, a doctor, resided. She spent her last few years at the Youville
House assisted living facility in Cambridge. She died on December 7, 2007,
just before her 93rd birthday, after a short illness.
Richard Herman Magaziner
Dick Magaziner was born on August 27, 1918 in Philadelphia.
He attended Central High School, then earned a degree from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1939.
He attended Naval Communcation School at Harvard University, and served in the
Navy before and during World War II, from 1940 to 1945.
He worked for Connecticut General Life Insurance for more than 30 years.
He was also active in civic affairs, serving as a member of the
Upper Dublin Parks and Recreation board in the early 1970s and as
Upper Dublin Township Commissioner between 1974 and 1981.
Dick married in Philadelphia in 1948 to a woman who is still living.
They had three children, all still living.
From around the year 2000, Dick lived in a nursing unit at the Quadrangle
in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He died there of congestive heart failure on
April 22, 2010.
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