Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, active in the United States from the late 1820s until 1871. Charles Blaney Cluskey is said to have been born in Co. Offaly circa 1808-1809, but his background is unknown. He is thought to have had a brother named Arthur, which suggests that he might have been a son or relative of ARTHUR CLUSKEY ARTHUR CLUSKEY . In 1827 he emigrated to the United States. He may have received his architectural training with the firm of Town & Davis in New York before moving to Savannah, Georgia in 1829. During the 1830s he made his mark as a Greek Revival architect in Georgia with his Medical College in Augusta (1834-37) and the Governor's Mansion at Milledgeville (1837-40). He worked in Washington, DC, from 1847 to 1869, when he returned to Georgia. He died from malaria in Georgia in 1871.



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All information in this entry is from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org) and from a letter from J.L. Sibley Jennings, Jr., Commission of Fine Arts, Washington DC, to Jeremy Craig, 27 Dec 1971.