Magaziners of Humenne

Updated 6/5/2009

	Louis Magaziner Louis Magaziner was born on March 7, 1877.1 He attended Philadelphia's magnet school, Central High School, and later earned a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.2 He appears to be the first of the Magaziners to attend college. At Penn, Louis was a classmate and friend of Julian Abele, the first black architect to graduate from that University.3 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.4 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.5 Louis performed design work on the store and warehouse for the Markovitz Bros. department store,6 a business owned in part by Sadie's husband. 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.7 They had three children: architect Henry Jonas Magaziner, who went into business with his father; Lena Louise Magaziner; and Richard Herman Magaziner.8 Louis died on May 19, 1956 at the age of 78, after a long battle with cancer.9
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Footnotes

1. According to the Humenne Jewish birth registry. Other records give his year of birth as 1878, or give him an age more consistent with a later year of birth, but the birth registry is the most reliable source.

2. According to his obituary in the Jewish Exponent and his biography in National Cyclopaedia of American Biography and confirmed by correspondence with a family member.

3. According to correspondence with Louis's family. Their friendship is discussed in many sources, including The Twilight of Splendor: Chronicles of the Age of American Palaces by James T. Maher (p. 372). See Abele's biography at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings.

4. According to correspondence with Louis's family.

5. According to his obituary in the Jewish Exponent and his biography on the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings website

6. According to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings website.

7. According to their Philadelphia marriage record; various United States census records confirm this information.

8. According to the 1920 and 1930 United States census and correspondence with the family.

9. According to his obituary in the Jewish Exponent and correspondence with the family.

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