JAMES O. BETELLE, 75
Retired Newark Architect, Specialist in School Buildings,
Dies in Florence, Italy
The Newark Evening News, June 5, 1954
James O. Betelle, retired Newark architect who rose from a $2-a-week clerk in an architect's office to become one of the country's outstanding designers of educational buildings, died Thursday in Florence, Italy. Mr. Betelle, who was 75, had been suffering from a heart ailment.
Mr. Betelle, who formerly lived in Short Hills, had spent much of his time traveling in recent years. He went to Italy earlier this Spring.
With completion of Weequahic High School in 1932 his firm, Guilbert & Betelle, had supervised construction of schools valued at more than $100,000,000. Included in the firm's work were 125 schools in Delaware, the gift of Pierre S. duPont to the state.
Art School Designer
Other examples of his work in Newark are Newark School of Fine Art and Industrial Art, Essex County Girls' Vocational School, West Side High School, Robert Treat Hotel, Essex County Hall of Records, Essex Club and Newark Chamber of Commerce Building.
His firm also designed the State Teachers colleges in Jersey City and Glassboro, Annandale Reformatory and the State Hospital for the Insane at Hillsdale. Other schools for which the concern was the architect were Columbia High School and Montrose and Clinton schools in the South Orange-Maplewood district, Vernon L. Davey Junior High School, East Orange and the High School and Jefferson School, Summit.
Mr. Betelle was born in Wilmington, Del., April 1, 1879, and attended public schools there until he was 16.
Upon leaving school, Mr. Betelle worked for $2 a week in the office of Cope & Stewartson, Philadelphia architects, while attending the School of Industrial Arts in that city.
1910 Start in Newark
Later, after studying in Europe, Mr. Betelle worked in the office of John Russell Pope, a leading New York architect. In 1910 he formed a partnership with Ernest F. Guilbert, and they opened an office in Newark.
Mr. Guilbert died in 1916. The next year Mr. Betelle closed the office to accept a captaincy in the Army Sanitation Corps when the United States entered World War I. Demobilized, Mr. Betelle started over again in Newark.
Mr. Betelle was elected president of Newark Chamber of Commerce in 1926 and re-elected in 1927. He served for a time on the North Jersey Transit Commission and Newark Zoning Board.
He was elected president of the New Jersey Society of Architects and New Jersey Chapter, American Institute of Architects, in 1920. In 1932 he was chosen regional director of the Middle Atlantic Division of the institute, of which he was a fellow.
For further info: http://jamesbetelle.com/
Retired Newark Architect, Specialist in School Buildings,
Dies in Florence, Italy
The Newark Evening News, June 5, 1954
James O. Betelle, retired Newark architect who rose from a $2-a-week clerk in an architect's office to become one of the country's outstanding designers of educational buildings, died Thursday in Florence, Italy. Mr. Betelle, who was 75, had been suffering from a heart ailment.
Mr. Betelle, who formerly lived in Short Hills, had spent much of his time traveling in recent years. He went to Italy earlier this Spring.
With completion of Weequahic High School in 1932 his firm, Guilbert & Betelle, had supervised construction of schools valued at more than $100,000,000. Included in the firm's work were 125 schools in Delaware, the gift of Pierre S. duPont to the state.
Art School Designer
Other examples of his work in Newark are Newark School of Fine Art and Industrial Art, Essex County Girls' Vocational School, West Side High School, Robert Treat Hotel, Essex County Hall of Records, Essex Club and Newark Chamber of Commerce Building.
His firm also designed the State Teachers colleges in Jersey City and Glassboro, Annandale Reformatory and the State Hospital for the Insane at Hillsdale. Other schools for which the concern was the architect were Columbia High School and Montrose and Clinton schools in the South Orange-Maplewood district, Vernon L. Davey Junior High School, East Orange and the High School and Jefferson School, Summit.
Mr. Betelle was born in Wilmington, Del., April 1, 1879, and attended public schools there until he was 16.
Upon leaving school, Mr. Betelle worked for $2 a week in the office of Cope & Stewartson, Philadelphia architects, while attending the School of Industrial Arts in that city.
1910 Start in Newark
Later, after studying in Europe, Mr. Betelle worked in the office of John Russell Pope, a leading New York architect. In 1910 he formed a partnership with Ernest F. Guilbert, and they opened an office in Newark.
Mr. Guilbert died in 1916. The next year Mr. Betelle closed the office to accept a captaincy in the Army Sanitation Corps when the United States entered World War I. Demobilized, Mr. Betelle started over again in Newark.
Mr. Betelle was elected president of Newark Chamber of Commerce in 1926 and re-elected in 1927. He served for a time on the North Jersey Transit Commission and Newark Zoning Board.
He was elected president of the New Jersey Society of Architects and New Jersey Chapter, American Institute of Architects, in 1920. In 1932 he was chosen regional director of the Middle Atlantic Division of the institute, of which he was a fellow.
For further info: http://jamesbetelle.com/
JAMES O. BETELLE, 75
Retired Newark Architect, Specialist in School Buildings,
Dies in Florence, Italy
The Newark Evening News, June 5, 1954
James O. Betelle, retired Newark architect who rose from a $2-a-week clerk in an architect's office to become one of the country's outstanding designers of educational buildings, died Thursday in Florence, Italy. Mr. Betelle, who was 75, had been suffering from a heart ailment.
Mr. Betelle, who formerly lived in Short Hills, had spent much of his time traveling in recent years. He went to Italy earlier this Spring.
With completion of Weequahic High School in 1932 his firm, Guilbert & Betelle, had supervised construction of schools valued at more than $100,000,000. Included in the firm's work were 125 schools in Delaware, the gift of Pierre S. duPont to the state.
Art School Designer
Other examples of his work in Newark are Newark School of Fine Art and Industrial Art, Essex County Girls' Vocational School, West Side High School, Robert Treat Hotel, Essex County Hall of Records, Essex Club and Newark Chamber of Commerce Building.
His firm also designed the State Teachers colleges in Jersey City and Glassboro, Annandale Reformatory and the State Hospital for the Insane at Hillsdale. Other schools for which the concern was the architect were Columbia High School and Montrose and Clinton schools in the South Orange-Maplewood district, Vernon L. Davey Junior High School, East Orange and the High School and Jefferson School, Summit.
Mr. Betelle was born in Wilmington, Del., April 1, 1879, and attended public schools there until he was 16.
Upon leaving school, Mr. Betelle worked for $2 a week in the office of Cope & Stewartson, Philadelphia architects, while attending the School of Industrial Arts in that city.
1910 Start in Newark
Later, after studying in Europe, Mr. Betelle worked in the office of John Russell Pope, a leading New York architect. In 1910 he formed a partnership with Ernest F. Guilbert, and they opened an office in Newark.
Mr. Guilbert died in 1916. The next year Mr. Betelle closed the office to accept a captaincy in the Army Sanitation Corps when the United States entered World War I. Demobilized, Mr. Betelle started over again in Newark.
Mr. Betelle was elected president of Newark Chamber of Commerce in 1926 and re-elected in 1927. He served for a time on the North Jersey Transit Commission and Newark Zoning Board.
He was elected president of the New Jersey Society of Architects and New Jersey Chapter, American Institute of Architects, in 1920. In 1932 he was chosen regional director of the Middle Atlantic Division of the institute, of which he was a fellow.
For further info: http://jamesbetelle.com/
Retired Newark Architect, Specialist in School Buildings,
Dies in Florence, Italy
The Newark Evening News, June 5, 1954
James O. Betelle, retired Newark architect who rose from a $2-a-week clerk in an architect's office to become one of the country's outstanding designers of educational buildings, died Thursday in Florence, Italy. Mr. Betelle, who was 75, had been suffering from a heart ailment.
Mr. Betelle, who formerly lived in Short Hills, had spent much of his time traveling in recent years. He went to Italy earlier this Spring.
With completion of Weequahic High School in 1932 his firm, Guilbert & Betelle, had supervised construction of schools valued at more than $100,000,000. Included in the firm's work were 125 schools in Delaware, the gift of Pierre S. duPont to the state.
Art School Designer
Other examples of his work in Newark are Newark School of Fine Art and Industrial Art, Essex County Girls' Vocational School, West Side High School, Robert Treat Hotel, Essex County Hall of Records, Essex Club and Newark Chamber of Commerce Building.
His firm also designed the State Teachers colleges in Jersey City and Glassboro, Annandale Reformatory and the State Hospital for the Insane at Hillsdale. Other schools for which the concern was the architect were Columbia High School and Montrose and Clinton schools in the South Orange-Maplewood district, Vernon L. Davey Junior High School, East Orange and the High School and Jefferson School, Summit.
Mr. Betelle was born in Wilmington, Del., April 1, 1879, and attended public schools there until he was 16.
Upon leaving school, Mr. Betelle worked for $2 a week in the office of Cope & Stewartson, Philadelphia architects, while attending the School of Industrial Arts in that city.
1910 Start in Newark
Later, after studying in Europe, Mr. Betelle worked in the office of John Russell Pope, a leading New York architect. In 1910 he formed a partnership with Ernest F. Guilbert, and they opened an office in Newark.
Mr. Guilbert died in 1916. The next year Mr. Betelle closed the office to accept a captaincy in the Army Sanitation Corps when the United States entered World War I. Demobilized, Mr. Betelle started over again in Newark.
Mr. Betelle was elected president of Newark Chamber of Commerce in 1926 and re-elected in 1927. He served for a time on the North Jersey Transit Commission and Newark Zoning Board.
He was elected president of the New Jersey Society of Architects and New Jersey Chapter, American Institute of Architects, in 1920. In 1932 he was chosen regional director of the Middle Atlantic Division of the institute, of which he was a fellow.
For further info: http://jamesbetelle.com/
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