Archimedes Russell

Born in Andover, Massachusetts and trained under local architect Horatio Nelson White, Russell served as a professor of architecture at Syracuse University from 1873 through 1881.^[1][2]

In the course of his career he designed over 850 commercial and civic buildings in the central New York region, including the David H. Burrell Mansion in Little Falls, New York, a Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival stone mansion.

His practice still continues today as King + King Architects, and is New York state’s oldest and the third oldest architectural firm in the United States.^[3][4]

He died in Syracuse on April 3, 1915, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[5]

Russell's work, much of which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, includes:

• Mrs. I. L. Crego House, 1870
• West Sibley Hall, 1870, and McGraw Hall, 1872 at Cornell University
• St Lucy Church, Syracuse, 1873
• First Baptist Church of Camillus, 1879
• Otsego County (New York) Courthouse, 1880
• Crouse College, Syracuse University, 1881
• Third National Bank, aka the Community Chest Building, Syracuse, 1885
• Overlook, Little Falls, New York, 1889
• Whedon–Schumacher House, Syracuse, 1892;^[6] National Register of Historic Places
• West Hill School, 1891–93
• Dey Brothers Building, Syracuse, 1893, a contributing building in the South Salina Street Downtown Historic District
• Bastable Theatre, Syracuse, 1893^[7]
• Central Technical High School, Syracuse, 1900
• Onondaga County Courthouse, Columbus Circle, Syracuse, 1904-1907 (with murals by William de Leftwich Dodge)
• C. W. Snow and Company Warehouse, 1913
• St. Matthew's Church, East Syracuse, 1915
• St. Anthony of Padua Church, Syracuse