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| Born | Isaac Stacker Taylor December 31, 1850 Nashville, Tennessee |
| Died | October 28, 1917 (aged 66) St. Louis, Missouri |
| Occupation | Architect |
Isaac "Ike" Stacker Taylor (December 31, 1850 – October 28, 1917) was an American architect. He was one of the most important architects in St. Louis and the midwestern United States at the turn of the twentieth century, designing commercial, residential, industrial, and governmental structures.
Taylor's career spanned nearly 50 years, the last 36 at the helm of his own firm, and some 215 projects. An obituary declared that "his career...has been synchronous with the architectural progress of St. Louis" and his works "in number and importance are second to none in his city."[1] He served as Chairman of the Architectural Commission and Director of Works for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World's Fair) of 1904 and himself designed numerous pavilions at the fair. Taylor was still designing up until his death at age 66 several months after the United States entered the First World War.
- ^ "Isaac Stacker Taylor," in The Western Architect 26, no. 5 (November 1917), 36.