Treat, Samuel Atwater
Samuel Atwater Treat Soundex Code T630
Samuel Atwater Treat (December 29, 1839 New Haven to June 18, 1910, Battle Creek), Architect
Samuel Atwater Treat was graduated in 1856 from the Collegiate and Commercial Institute and immediately entered the architectural office of Sidney M. Stone at New Haven, where he remained until the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, when he enlisted. After the war he returned to Mr. Stone's office, but soon moved to Chicago. In 1872 he formed a partnership with Fritz Foltz, which continued until 1897, after which he was in business alone and devoted many years to the erection of a plant for the Western Electric Company in Hawthorne, a suburb of Chicago. Among the buildings designed by the firm of Treat & Foltz were St. Luke's Hospital, the machine works of Frazer & Chalmers, the Woolensack Fireproof Warehouse, Arizona Apartments, Tudor Apartments, and residences for C. B. Farwell, C. B. Libby, and George Armour. Mr. Treat was one of the oldest members of the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, having been elected an Associate of the Institute in 1873 and a Fellow at the time of the consolidation with the Western Association in 1889. He was twice president of the Illinois Chapter and twice president of the Chicago Architects Business Association. For nine years he was treasurer of the American Institute of Architects and at the time of his death was treasurer of the Chicago Architects Business Association.