User:JPRiley/Diboll

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Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, completed in 1931.
The St. John Bosco Chapel of Hope Haven in Marrero, designed by the successor firm of Diboll-Kessels & Associates and completed in 1941.
The Tidewater Building in New Orleans, designed by Kessels-Diboll-Kessels and completed in 1971.

Allison Owen FAIA (December 26, 1869 – January 30, 1951) was an American architect in practice in New Orleans from 1895 until World War II.

History[edit]

Allison Owen was born December 26, 1869 in New Orleans to William Miller Owen and Caroline Amanda (Zacharie) Owen.

Diboll & Owen was established in 1895 as the partnership of two architects, Collins C. Diboll and Allison Owen.

Collins Ceres Diboll was born July 23, 1868 in New Orleans. He was educated in the New Orleans public schools and at Tulane University, where he studied nights in architecture. From 1889 until 1894 he worked for architects in Dallas and New York City. In 1894 he formed a brief partnership with architect G. M. Torgerson, formerly of Meridian, Mississippi, but in February of 1895 left to form his partnership with Owen.

Allison Owen was born December 26, 1869 in New Orleans. He was educated in the New Orleans public schools and at Tulane University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied architecture from 1892 to 1894 with the class of 1895. He was a long time member and officer of the Louisiana National Guard, having first enlisted in 1890 as part of the 4th infantry batallion. He was transferred to the Washington Artillery and by the time he entered practice had been promoted to sergeant major.

Diboll & Owen developed a prominent general practice, and were particularly well known for the design of churches, which they designed as far afield as Portland, Oregon and Kansas City, Missouri. From 1907 to 1914 they were joined by a third partner, Moise H. Goldstein Sr., a graduate of MIT and a former student at the American Academy in Rome.

Alongside his practice Owen remained active in the national guard. He was commissioned a captain in 1897 and in 1909 was promoted to major in command of the Washington Artillery. In 1911 he commanded a military parade that preceded the dedication of the Jefferson Davis Monument in New Orleans, removed in 2017. As commander of the Washington Artillery he served in the Mexican Border War from 1916 to 1917. In 1917 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, then to colonel, when the Washington Artillery was mustered into the army as the 141st Field Artillery Regiment during World War I. He commanded the regiment in France from 1918 to 1919. In 1924 he was promoted to brigadier general. He retired in 1933.

In 1929 Diboll & Owen were joined by Collins C. Diboll Jr. as a junior partner, followed by Jack J. H. Kessels in 1933. Collins C. Diboll died May 17, 1936 with the remaining partners continuing until January, 1937. At that time Owen withdrew from the partnership to enter limited private practice, and the firm was continued by Diboll, Kessels and a third partner, Henry Boettner, as Diboll, Boettner & Kessels. After Boettner's death in 1940 Diboll and Kessels continued as Diboll-Kessels & Associates.

Architectural works[edit]

Works in New Orleans[edit]

Works elsewhere[edit]


  1. ^ New Orleans Architecture 7, ed. Dorothy G. Schlesinger, Robert J. Cangelosi Jr. and Sally Kittredge Reeves (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1989): 163.
  2. ^ New Orleans Architecture 8, ed. Robert J. Cangelosi Jr. and Dorothy G. Schlesinger (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1997): 128.
  3. ^ New Orleans Architecture 7, ed. Dorothy G. Schlesinger, Robert J. Cangelosi Jr. and Sally Kittredge Reeves (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1989): 114.
  4. ^ New Orleans Architecture 8, ed. Robert J. Cangelosi Jr. and Dorothy G. Schlesinger (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1997): 120.
  5. ^ New Orleans Architecture 7, ed. Dorothy G. Schlesinger, Robert J. Cangelosi Jr. and Sally Kittredge Reeves (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1989): 88.
  6. ^ New Orleans Architecture 7, ed. Dorothy G. Schlesinger, Robert J. Cangelosi Jr. and Sally Kittredge Reeves (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1989): 128.
  7. ^ New Orleans Architecture 7, ed. Dorothy G. Schlesinger, Robert J. Cangelosi Jr. and Sally Kittredge Reeves (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1989): 74.
  8. ^ Inez Hotel NRHP Registration Form (1988)
  9. ^ Westminster Congregational Church NRHP Registration Form (1980)
  10. ^ Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church NRHP Registration Form (1991)
  11. ^ St. Landry Catholic Church NRHP Registration Form (1982)
  12. ^ Manufacturers Record 84, no. 14 (October 4, 1923): 124.
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