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Joseph H. Freedlander FAIA (1870 – November 23, 1943) was an American architect.

Life and career

Joseph Henry Freedlander was born in 1870 in New York City. He entered the MIT School of Architecture with the class of 1891 but left to enter the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1890. He joined the atelier of Honoré Daumet and earned his architecte diplômé par le gouvernement (ADG) in 1895. He returned to the United States and immidiately began practice in New York. In 1896 he formed the partnership of Freedlander & Dillon with Arthur Dillon, who had also been educated at the Beaux-Arts but had not graduated. In 1899 they completed their major collaborative work, the St. Louis Club, now the Saint Louis University Museum of Art. They dissolved their partnership in 1900 and Freedlander returned to sole practice.

Architectural works

• 1899 – St. Louis Club, 3663 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis
• 1908 – Importers and Traders National Bank Building, 247 Broadway, New York City

• French Institute Alliance Française,