Treat, Samuel Atwater

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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.