JULLIEN, Philip Morrison (1875-1963) was listed in Vancouver City Directories as an 'architect and decorator' who was active there from 1910 until 1916. Born in Washington, D.C. on 22 March 1875, he attended Columbian College [now George Washington University] from 1894 to 1897, then travelled to Alaska to join the gold rush both there and in the Yukon. In 1900 he moved to New York City to work as an assistant in the offices of some of the leading American architects including McKim, Mead & White, and Carrere & Hastings, and Donn Barber. During the course of the next ten years, he gained valuable experience and obtained a wide-ranging knowledge of the Beaux-Arts style and how it could be applied to civic, commercial and residential buildings. It is unclear why he chose to move to Vancouver, B.C. in 1910 and open an office there. His practise was moderately successful; his largest commission in Vancouver was the design for the Kensington Place Apartments (1912), a 6 storey Beaux-Arts landmark overlooking Sunset Beach Park and English Bay. His name last appears in the Greater Vancouver City Directory in 1916 and the following year he moved back to his home town of Washington, D.C. and maintained a successful practise there for nearly 40 years. His best known work was the massive Neo-Gothic design for the Chasleton Apartment Block (1919-20), begun in 1919 with 155 units, and doubled in size during construction to 310 units. It was the largest apartment block ever constructed in Washington at the time, and held that title until 1924. Jullien also designed the sprawling Congressional Golf Club House in Bethesda “in a pure Italian style” (1924), a landmark which still stands today.
During his career in Washington, Jullien also taught advanced courses in architecture to students at Catholic University from c. 1925 to c. 1935. He retired in 1953, and later died in West Palm Beach, Florida on 12 September 1963 (obit. Palm Beach Post [West Palm Beach], 13 Sept. 1963, 8; obit. Washington Star, 15 Sept. 1963; biog. D. Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 470, 507; inf. American Inst. of Architects, Washington)
(works in Vancouver unless noted)
TERMINAL CITY CLUB., located within the Metropolitan Bank Building, West Hastings Street, design of the interiors, and complete decoration of the club, 1912 (Const., v, Dec. 1912, 57-60, illus. & descrip.)
KENSINGTON PLACE APARTMENTS, Nicola Street at Beach Avenue, 1912 (Province [Vancouver], 10 Aug. 1912, 22, descrip.; 23 Aug. 1913, 7, illus.; dwgs. at the Vancouver City Archives)
VICTORIA, B.C., residence in Uplands for John Moxam of Calgary, 1912 (The Sun [Vancouver], 12 Aug. 1912, 15, descrip.)
VICTORIA, B.C., residence in Uplands for T.H. Bradstreet, 1912 (The Sun [Vancouver], 12 Aug. 1912, 15, descrip.)
KITSILANO, residence for J.E. Aitkins, West 8th Avenue near Larch Street, 1912 (City of Vancouver b.p. No. 3437, 13 Sept. 1912; inf. Patrick Gunn, City of Vancouver)
NATIONAL MOVING PICTURE THEATRE, West Hastings Street near Abbott Street, interior decoration with a new front façade, 1913 (Vancouver Daily World, 30 April 1913, 23, descrip.)
REX THEATRE, West Hastings Street, 1912-13; demol. (Province [Vancouver], 15 Nov. 1913, 13, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at the Vancouver City Archives)
VICTORIA, B.C., “Riffington”, a mansion for Andrew Wright, Beach Drive at Lansdowne Road, Oak Bay (C.R., xxvii, 5 March 1913, 73, t.c.; S. Stark, Oak Bay's Heritage Buildings, 1986, 111, illus.; Larry McCann, Imagining Uplands, 2016, 287, illus.)
SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, residence for James Y. Griffin, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 21 May 1913, 70)
(works in Washington, D.C.)
CHASLETON APARTMENT BUILDING, 16th Street at R Street, 1919-20 (Washington Herald, 15 June 1919, Section Two, 12, descrip.; James M. Goode, Best Addresses: A Century of Washington’s Distinguished Apartment Houses, 1988, 192-95, illus. & descrip.)
REPUBLIC MOVIE THEATRE, U Street N.W. between 13th and 14th Street, for the Globe Amusement Co., and designed for “the Coloured patronage“ of Washington, 1920-21 (Washington Times, 25 Sept. 1920, 12, illus. & descrip.)
CONGRESSIONAL GOLF CLUB HOUSE, River Road, Bethesda, Maryland, 1922-24 (Washington Post, 5 March 1922, Section Three, 3, descrip.; Washington Times, 5 March 1922, 13, illus. & descrip.; Evening Star [Washington], 10 April 1922, 2, descrip.; Architecture [New York], Vol. 50, Nov. 1924, 177-82, illus. & descrip.)
MOTHER'S NATIONAL MEMORIAL, Massachusetts Avenue N.W., at Clifton, 1923, a competition entry and proposal for a monument, 1923 (Evening Star [Washington], 20 Sept. 1923, 32, descrip.)
THE BOWEN BUILDING, 15th Street N.W. near H. Street, 1923 (Washington Star, 15 Sept. 1963, list of works in obituary)
NEW YORK AVENUE, a 8 storey apartment block for the Boulevard Apartment Co., 1926 (Evening Star [Washington], 13 March 1926, 20)
KENMORE APARTMENTS, Connecticut Avenue N.W. at Legation Street N.W., c. 1926 (Washington Star, 15 Sept. 1963, list of works in obituary)
(works elsewhere)
PHILADELPHIA, PENN., Huntington Hall Apartments, 43rd Street at Locust Street, 1926-27 (inf. American Inst. of Architects, Washington, letter from P.M. Jullien dated 5 July 1926)
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, Cherokee Apartment Hotel, c. 1926 (inf. American Inst. of Architects, Washington, letter from P.M. Jullien dated 5 July 1926)
BUFFALO, N.Y., Cleveland Hall Apartment Hotel, c. 1926 (inf. American Inst. of Architects, Washington, letter from P.M. Jullien dated 5 July 1926)
PITTSBURGH, PENN., Fifth Avenue Apartment Hotel, and Law & Finance Building, a 14 storey skyscraper on Fourth Avenue, 1927-29 (Pittsburgh Gazette Times, 4 May 1927, 5; Pittsburgh Press, 15 May 1929, 10, illus. and descrip. in advert.; inf. American Inst. of Architects, Washington, letter from P.M. Jullien dated 5 July 1926)
PITTSBURGH, PENN., a 14 storey addition to the Fairfax Apartment Hotel, Fifth Avenue at Craig Street, in Oakland, 1929 (Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 3 Oct. 1929, 29, descrip.)
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA., Civic Auditorium, Clematis Street, 1959-60 (Palm Beach Post [West Palm Beach], 28 Oct. 1959, 1)