Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Lucius, W. W.  1877 - 
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	W. W.  LUCIUS.  During the past twenty years W. W. Lucius, of 
Portland, has occupied a prominent place among the architects of the Columbia 
River valley, many of the most important buildings in this section of the 
state having been designed by him, and he enjoys an enviable reputation in his 
line throughout the Pacific northwest. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1877, he 
is a son of Albert and Octavia (Sturdyvant) Lucius.  His father was a native 
of Germany, when he received a university education, being graduated in civil 
engineering. In the early ‘60s he came to the United States and quickly gained 
recognition as an able and competent engineer. For forty years he served as 
consulting engineer for the Vanderbilt railroad system, designing all the 
bridges for the Lake Shore railroad and the New York Central road. He served 
as chief engineer for the Atlanta Fair and the Charleston Fair and gained an 
international reputation in his special field of effort. He is still, at the 
age of eighty-six years, actively engaged in his profession in New York city. 
His wife died in 1923.
	W. W. Lucius attended the public and high schools of his home city and 
in 1898 graduated in civil engineering from the Brooklyn Polytechnic school.  
He then became associated with his father in important bridge contracts, after 
which he was with the Carnegie Steel Company, the Jones & Laughlin Steel 
Company and the Pennsylvania Steel Company. In 1909 Mr. Lucius came to 
Portland and opened an architect‘s office, in which profession he has been 
engaged to the present time. That his ability has been highly appraised here 
is evidenced by the following list of buildings designed by him: at Kelso, 
Washington, the Cowlitz county courthouse and the Wallace school building; at 
Eugene, Oregon, the Paine theater and apartment building; at Grants Pass, 
Oregon, the Oxford hotel and First National Bank building; at Corvallis, 
Oregon, the Sigma Nu house; at Astoria, Oregon, the Wenckebach hotel, the 
Astoria Improvement Company theater and office building, the Smith and Cooke 
buildings, the Spxardts apartment house, Neimi hotel and the Streichert-Moore 
building at La Grande, Oregon, the Julius Rosech buildings; at Vancouver, 
Washington, the Vancouver Infirmary; at Vale, Oregon, the Harvey garage; at 
Portland, the Labor temple, Italian Market building, Italian Federation 
building, People’s Theater, Sunset theater, Lawrence apartments, Armond 
apartment, Royal Manor apartments, Woodmen of World building, Steele & Davis 
hotel building, Blake warehouse, Manning warehouse, Brown garage, Zetosch 
garage, C. J. Mills garage, E. B. Meyer photo building, the Ice Hippodrome, 
Mrs. Davis building, Fitzpatrick Film Exchange building, Pike building, 
Hoggan’s warehouse, Howard-Cooper warehouse, D. P. Thompson garage, Grain 
Exchange building, Portland Natatorium, Union theater, Copeland apartments, 
Couchman garage, Llewellyn garage, Multnomah County Fair buildings, Mittlemen 
and Miskind apartments, First United Presbyterian church, James A. Tate 
warehouse and the E. E. Mulholland building, the aggregate cost of which 
buildings was over four and a quarter million dollars, and besides these he 
has drawn the designs for countless smaller buildings. His designs are 
characterized by an originality and distinctiveness appealing to 
discriminating builders, and Mr. Lucius well merits the high place which he 
holds in public esteem.
	On August 30, 1899, Mr. Lucius was united in marriage to Miss Mabel 
Elizabeth  Ferguson, of Toledo, Ohio, and to them have been born two children, 
both of whom are graduates of the Oregon Agricultural College, namely: 
Margaret Octavia, who is the wife of Donald Dickinson, of Weisa, Idaho, and 
William Wallace, Jr. an architect, who married Miss Margaret Fletcher, of 
Portland.
	In his political alignment Mr. Lucius is a republican, and he is a 
member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World, 
the Royal Arch Masons and the United Artisans, the American Society of 
Engineers and the American Automobile Association. A man of high professional 
attainments, marked business ability and unquestioned integrity, the sterling 
worth of his character is recognized by all who come in contact with him and 
he commands to a marked degree the respect and good will of his fellowmen.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 439-440

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