Owen McGlynn


Owen McGlynn was an architect who practiced in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth. He designed in a variety of styles, including the classical and Gothic revival. His built works included numerous banks, schools and churches.

Biography

McGlynn was born in Stockton, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1878, the son of Daniel and Bridget McGlynn. The father immigrated to the United States in 1866 and worked as a coal miner. The son was educated at St. Mary's R.C. School in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In the 1900 census of Wilkes-Barre, McGlynn gave his age as 23 and his occupation as architect.
Around 1900, McGlynn formed a partnership with an older, more established architect, Benjamin Davey, Jr. That year, they completed the new St. Aloysius R.C. Church in Lee Park, near Wilkes-Barre, to which they each donated a stained glass window. After Davey died in December 1901, McGlynn assumed full ownership of the practice.
McGlynn married Elizabeth MacDermott on October 17, 1900. He died on October 15, 1918, of pneumonia brought on as a result of the Spanish flu.

Architectural works

Among the completed works of Owen McGlynn are the following: