American architect Jens Larson was a student at the Boston Architectural Club, and then attended Harvard Graduate School. He served in World War I as a captain and a highly decorated soldier in the Canadian Air Force attached to the Royal Flying Corps and is credited with having shot down 15 German airplanes. During the war, he also got his nickname “Swede” (“The Swede”). After the war Larson became an architect in residence at Dartmouth College from 1919-47. His first job was to design a building development plan with the college. There, he designed and built large parts of Dartmouth College in Neo-Georgian style and also taught art and architecture. His contributions to the sports facilities of Dartmouth were amongst others the tribune of Memorial Field from 1921-1923 (rebuilt in 2014) and the Davis Field House in 1929 (demolished in 1985). He also designed Davis Chapel at the Baptist Hospital and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine (later Wake Forest School of Medicine) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, were he did similar designs for the Wake Forest campus as he had done at Dartmouth.
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