Theodore Davis Boal
Theodore Davis (Terry) Boal (June 14, 1867 – August 22, 1938)[1] was an army veteran (Colonel) and architect in the United States. Boalsburg, Pennsylvania was named for his ancestors. He was senior partner at the Boal and Harnois architectural firm in Denver, Colorado.
Boal was born in Iowa City, Iowa. He graduated with a degree in architecture from Iowa State University in 1889. He joined an architecture firm in Denver, Colorado in 1891 and continued to practice there until 1894 when he traveled to Paris, France to continue his architecture studies. While there, he met and married Mathilde Dolorès Denis de Lagarde (1871–1952).[2] They had one child, Pierre.
He settled on his ancestral estate in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania after his father's death. He added a ballroom, offices and outhouses in 1898.[2]
After the Great War (World War I), Boal built the Cristobal Colon chapel using artefacts and furnitures "inherited by his wife from her aunt Victoria Colombus Montalvo, widow of Diego Colon." He was involved in the creation of the water, electricity, telephone and public transport companies in Boalsburg.[2]
During the Mexican war, and later in 1916, he raised his own cavalry squadron. He died in 1938, "partly ruined by the Great Crisis".[2]
A shrine dedicated to the 28th Infantry Division is located on the grounds of the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. The site was formerly Boal's estate. In 1916 Boal formed the Boal Troop, the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry, State College, a horse-mounted machine gun unit which was accepted as a provisional unit of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. In April 1917, the Boal Troop was reconfigured as an infantry unit, Company A of the 107th Machine Gun Battalion, and deployed to France for service in World War I.[3][4][5]
Boal died in Boalsburg on August 22, 1938. He was buried in a crypt at the chapel of the Boalsburg shrine.
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Architectural works (Boal & Harnois)
Boal and Harnois was active from 1901 to 1907. Boal partnered with Frederick Louis Harnois (1872–1921) at the firm. They worked in revival styles such American Renaissance and Spanish Colonial Revival. Harnois, a native of New York, moved to Denver in 1896 and is believed to have designed most of the buildings credited to Boal and Harnois.[6]
Denver
- Grant-Humphries Mansion (1902)
- Crawford Hill Mansion (1906), now the Town Club)
- Dines House
- Daniels House
- Lee House
- Ferguson-Gano House
- Hermon House
- Wheeler House
- Clubhouse for the Denver Country Club (original)
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church[6]
Elsewhere
- Clevehold Mansion in Redstone
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Station in Grand Junction, Colorado
- Wolhurst Mansion in Littleton
Other buildings in Utah, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.[6]
