Metadata
Title
Crozier, Matthew
Description
Matthew Crozier was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. In Ryan K. Smith’s Robert Morris's Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder, Crozier is included as a master carpenter for Morris’s mansion, known as Morris’s Folly. Crozier replaced John Sproul, another member of the Carpenters' Company, in November of 1795 and eventually “Crozier drifted away” from the doomed project.
Biography from the Philadelphia Architects and Builders website, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Sandra L. Tatman and Thomas Stokes.
Biography from the Philadelphia Architects and Builders website, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Sandra L. Tatman and Thomas Stokes.
Member Number
166*
Last Name
Crozier
First Name
Matthew
Deceased Date
1/1/1805
Date Elected
1/1/1792
Date Expelled
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Business Address
103 S. 5th St. (1797-99) Prime
Reference
Tatman & Moss Bio Dictionary Phila. Architects Bio page 175. A master builder elected to the Company in 1792. See Selected Bibliography in Tatman & Moss Bio Dictionary Phila. Architects. ----------------------- Managing Committee Minutes-1792-5,53 Matthew Crozier elected.
File Number
a
Grantor Records Notes
Also listings for Robert Crozier, 1799-1809, EF, 1, 116.