1894
July 13: Walter Stafford Vaughan is born in Cambridge, Mass. to Walter Clifton Vaughan and Mosetta Isabella Stafford.
Walter Stafford Vaughan
Timeline
1875
1900
1918-1919
Stafford Vaughan attends the Harvard Graduate Program in Architecture; earns Masters.
1919-1922
Stafford Vaughan apprentices at the office of Charles Freely Loring, Jr. in Boston.
1922-1924
Stafford Vaughan awarded Julia Armory Appleton Fellowship in Architecture for study at the American Academy of Rome; travels in Europe.
1924
Walter and Etta Vaughan visit Stafford Vaughan in Rome; Walter collects medieval ironwork and hardware.
c. 1924-1933
Stafford Vaughan works for various architects in New York.
1925
c. 1933-1941
Stafford Vaughan joins Ostrander & Eshleman, solidifying partnership with the W.C. Vaughan Co.
c. 1935
Stafford Vaughan designs W.C. Vaughan’s lever handle 637, later used on the front door of the Gropius house.
c. 1941
Stafford Vaughan leaves Ostrander & Eshleman, joins the W.C. Vaughan Co.
1944
Walter Vaughan retires; divides shares in W.C. Vaughan between Stafford Vaughan and Elmer Pratt.
1944
Stafford Vaughan becomes president of W.C. Vaughan.
1950
1964
Stafford Vaughan retires; Elmer Pratt becomes president of W.C. Vaughan.
1967
January 3: Walter Stafford Vaughan dies in Monterey, California.