Hesseldon, Louis G.

Louis Gilbert Hesselden was born near Wendel, Oklahoma on February 10, 1895 to Annie (Peltier) while she was visiting her parents. Hesselden was raised in Albuquerque with his two older sisters and one older brother. He graduated from Albuquerque High School in 1913.

In 1917 he enlisted in the Army, was promoted to Lieutenant and resigned in 1918. He returned to work at Superior Lumber and Mill Company as manager for six years. During this time he took courses at the College of Engineering at the University of New Mexico. In 1924 he moved to Pennsylvania and attended the College of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture of University of Pennsylvania where he received his Bachelor of Architecture in 1927. Hesselden then held a position with the Department of Architecture of the Bureau of Home Missions for the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1929, he worked for Paul Phillip Cret, a leading American Classicist, with whom he had studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He simultaneously studied landscape painting at the Chester Springs School of Pennsylvania Academy.

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