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194: 139:"Like many architects who sought Carnegie Library commissions, Shopbell welcomed publicity. When the Clarion-News of Princeton, Indiana, interviewed him in 1903, Shopbell mentioned that he was currently building four Carnegie libraries, and said that although smaller libraries were usually constructed of pressed brick, since his firm had "an inside price on stone", if Princeton acted quickly, they too could afford a stone library. The firm of Harris and Shopbell was selected and Princeton built a stone library. As the Illinois libraries built by Shopbell are all of brick, his inside price on stone must not have lasted into the 1910s." 212: 227: 183:, IN, on December 8, 1871. From 1889, Shopbell spent five years in the Indianapolis office of architect W. Scott Moore. In 1894 he moved to Evansville, working with architect C. A. Brehmer. In 1897 he married Winifred Dunlap of Indianapolis and joined Harris to form their architectural partnership. Shopbell was a member of the Freemasons, as well as belonging to the 60: 128:
By 1905, Harris & Shopbell had already built 9 Carnegie libraries: Shelbyville, Greensburg, Franklin, Seymour, Salem, Princeton, Alt. Vernon and Poseyville, IN, and Henderson, KY; as Clifford Shopbell, the firm went on to build several more. Illinois preservation staff record that Shopbell also
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Evansville, Indiana, historic preservation staff described Clifford Shopbell and Company as "probably the most prominent--or at least the most active" local architectural firm in Evansville's Downtown. They credit several of its works as showing "clear understanding of program and ceremonial
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libraries at Carmi in 1914, Grayville in 1913, and Marion in 1916. Illinois preservation staff called Clifford Shopbell "the dominant architect of Carnegie libraries in Indiana, with at least fifteen of that state's commissions". The preservation staff state frankly that:
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Clifford Shopbell (in rear, at right) and his staff of architects and engineers; Ed Thole is at typewriter, and Joe Berridge is at his left; photo dated 1919, Courtesy of Willard Library Archives
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contains "18. Copies of selected drawings from the office of Clifford Shopbell & Co., later Shopbell, Fowler & Thole, architects, Evansville (ca. 1916-1925)." Retrieved 28 November 2011
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Library of Congress. "Notes: Illus. in: The Western architect ..., v.28, no. 3, March 1919. Chicago : The Western architect, inc., 1919, plate 15."
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Municipal market for city of Evansville, Indiana, interior, 1919 - Clifford Shopbell & Company, architects
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NRHP, item 8 page 3; also names (45) YMCA of 1913, and (117) Walnut Street School of 1913.
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In 1919, Clifford Shopbell & Co. built the Evansville Municipal Market.
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design, and commend it for "one creditable Sullivanesque essay," (the
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in 1897 and still had that name in 1905. The firm later became
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Illinois Carnegie Libraries Multiple Property Submission
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Historic Photograph of Clifford Shopbell & Co, 1919
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Douglas L. Stern and Joan Marchand (October 19, 1981).
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Ball State University, Drawings and Documents Archive
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Harris & Shopbell architects, Evansville, Indiana
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South Main & South Elm Streets Historic District
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Index

Architecture
Evansville, Indiana
United States

Evansville, Indiana
United States
Indiana
Kentucky
National Register of Historic Places
Prairie School
Fellwock Auto Company Building
Illinois
Louisville
Freemasons
Knights of Pythias
Elks
Princeton
Shriners
Masonic Temple (Franklin, Indiana), now Johnson County Museum of History
Masonic Temple (Franklin, Indiana)
Johnson County Museum of History
Old Fellwock Auto Company, Evansville
Old Fellwock Auto Company
Masonic Temple (Evansville, Indiana)
Masonic Temple (Evansville, Indiana)
Albion Apartments
American Trust and Savings Bank
Bernardin-Johnson House
Bitterman Building
John W. Boehne House

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