Charles Nagel (architect)
Charles Nagel, Jr. was a Saint Louis, Missouri architect and museum director. He was the son of Charles Nagel, a lawyer and politician. Charles Nagel, Jr. attended Yale University, where he earned three degrees, culminating with an M.F.A. in architecture. He was employed at the Saint Louis architectural firms of Jamieson & Spearl and Hall & Proetz, and with Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, Abbott in Boston, and later the firm of Nagel & Dunn in Saint Louis. He was curator of Decorative Arts at Yale's Gallery of Fine Arts, director of the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery. He died in Massachusetts, on 20-February 1992, and is buried there.
Nagel served as juror and secretary of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Competition, which led to the selection of the Gateway Arch design.
