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PICKERING, ARTHUR DONOVAN, architect, was born in Chi- cago. Ill., July 27. 1859, and is the son of Thomas Pickering and Ellen W., daughter of George A. Shufeldt and his wife, Mary Howey-Wilson. He is the grandson of JJohn F. I. Pickering and Mary Ann Donovan. his grandfather having been Governor of the Windward Islands. From Trinidad, West Indies, where they owned large estates, his grandparents came to this country, after the emancipation of slaves . by the English Government, settling in New Haven, Conn. The pa- ternal ancestors were formerly seated at Fox Lease, New Forest, Eng- land. Through his paternal grandmother, Mr. Pickering descends from Sir Hugh Middleton, who brought the New River water to Lon- don. On the maternal side he is the great-great-great-grandson of Henry Howey, of Wooter. England, and of Rev. Alexander Wilson, a Scotch clergyman. One of the brothers of the latter was Sir Ord Wil- son, an officer in the British Army, while another was Sir Alexander
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Wilson, physician to the Duke of Kent. Mr. Pickering's great-uncle, Steven Bayard Wilson, was a Captain in the United States Navy. His uncle, Rear-Admiral Robert W. Shufeldt, United States Navy, was Consul-General at Havana during the Civil War. Having been educated in public and private schools in New York City, Mr. Pieker- ing studied architecture in the offices of W. Wheeler Smith, John II. Duncan, and Bruce Price. He has practiced his profession for about ten years, his works including the Sun Fire Office Building. Pine Street; the Baron de Hirsch Trade School, East Ninth Street; many residences in the city and elsewhere, and a number of memorial foun- tains. He has designed seventeen such fountains for the estate of Henry Rosenberg, at Galveston, Tex. He is a member of the Archi- tectural League of New York, and of the National Sculpture Society.
PIERCE, ANDREW WHITE, architect, was born in Westport, Mass., July 4, 1865, and is the son of Allen W. Pierce, the grandson of Elisha Pierce, and the great-grandson of Richard Pierce. On the maternal side he is the son of Alice White, the grandson of John White, the great-grandson of Jarathinel White, and the great-great-grandson of Israel White, being a direct descendant of Peregrine White, of the " Mayflower." Mr. White was educated under private tuition and at the Regents' High School, Rockville Centre, L. I. He followed the trade of a carpenter and builder, and was Superintendent of Con- struction for eight years. At the same time he studied architecture, and a few years ago opened an office as an architect in Flatbush. He has made suburban architecture a specialty, and has furnished plans for more than three hundred residences in Flatbush and vicinity, Bay Shore, and Rockville Centre. He is architect and superintendent for the Germania Real Estate and Improvement Company. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a member of the Royal Arcanum, and a member of the Cortelyou Club, of Flatbush, Brooklyn.
DAUS, RUDOLPH LAURENT, architect, was born in Mexico August 10, 1854; studied for four or five years in Germany, traveled for several years with his parents, and studied architecture at the Ecole des Beau-Arts, Paris, from which he received the certificate of capacity in 1879. In 1880 he came to New York City, while in 1883 he opened an office as an architect in the Borough of Brooklyn. He designed and erected the Thirteenth Regiment Armory, Brooklyn; the German Hos- pital, St. John's Home, an orphan asylum; the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis de Sales, a Swedish Church, the Monastery of the Pre- cious Blood, the Home for Aged Men, the Home for Consumptives, and many residences in Brooklyn and Manhattan Borough. He is a mem- ber of the Brooklyn. Riding and Driving. Rembrandt, and Columbian clubs.
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HOUGH, WILLIAM CLARK, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 12, 1859, is the son of Henry R. Hough and Susan F. Willis, is the grand- son of Clark Hough, and is in the eighth generation from William Hough, who was born in England in 1619, and subsequently came to the American colonies. On the maternal side he is the grandson of James Willis, the great-grandson of Daniel Willis, and the great-great- grandson of Jacob Willis. He is the great-grandson of JJoseph Patter- son, who was in turn the son of Alexander Patterson, the grandson of Alexander Patterson, the great-grandson of Robert Patterson, and the great-great-grandson of John Patterson, of Scotland. Mr. Hough re- ceived his education at the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, and Colum- bia College, and also studied architecture in the offices of H. Hudson Holly, MeKim, Mead & White, and JJ. C. Cady. He began the practice of architecture on his own account in 1885, being associated with H. P. Fowler, in the firm of Fowler & Hough, for ten years. More recently he organized his present firm of Hough & Deuell. Fowler & Hough were architects for several armories, churches, clubhouses, hospitals, bank buildings, and private dwellings. Hough & Deuell have designed and erected several school buildings in Brooklyn, together with the build- ing of the Jamaica Savings Bank at Jamaica. Mr. Hough is a mem- ber of the Crescent Athletic Club and the Twenty-third Regiment Vet- eran Association, as well as of the Architectural League of New York, and is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and of its Brooklyn Chapter.
MORRIS, MONTROSE W., born in Hempstead, L. L., March 20, 1861, was a student for seven years with Charles W. Clinton, architect, and in 1883 opened his own office in New York City. He designed and erected the residences of General Horace Porter and Mrs. Abby Thomp- son, on Madison Avenue, Manhattan Borough; and in Brooklyn Bor- ough the residences of II. C. Hulbert and J. G. Dettmer, Prospect Park. West; of Eugene Maxwell and Lewis Luckenbach, Eighth Avenue, and of Eugene G. Blackford, St. Mark's Avenue. Other buildings designed by him are the San Carlos and new St. George hotels. Brooklyn, and the new building for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the same borough. Among the notable Brooklyn apartment houses designed and erected by him may be mentioned the Arlington, on Montague Street; the Montrose, Hoyt and State streets; the Alhambra, Nostrand Avenue and Macon and Halsey streets; the Renaissance, Nostrand Ave- - nne and Hancock Street; the Imperial, Bedford Avenue and Pacific Street; the Bedfordshire, Pacific Street, and the Brevoort, Bedford Avenue, Fulton Street, and Brevoort Place.
POOLE, THOMAS HENRY, was born in Shrewsbury, England. September 25, 1860. He is the son of Thomas Poole and Emma, his wife, his father being a merchant. Both parents died when he was
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young. He was educated at Rugsby and Oxford, England, and, after leaving college, commenced the study of architecture and the allied arts. For eight or nine years he practiced architecture as a profession, in 1881 came to America, and since the latter date has followed his profession in New York City. He married, in 1890, Erdwin Hendricks, of Montreal, Canada. They have no children.
LAMBERT, WILLIAM A., architect, was born in London, England, August 16, 1869, the son of William J. Lambert and Emma Pizey. He was educated in the public schools of New York City, and at eighteen years of age began a course in architectural schools in Newark, N. J., and New York City. After nine years of study he engaged in business on his own account in New York, while he also maintains an office in Hackensack, N. J. He has made a specialty of suburban archi- tecture, has designed and erected many residences, and has published " Lambert's Suburban Architecture." He is the architect of the Tay- lor Building, the Campbell Building and Engine House, State Street, Hackensack, N. J., as well as of the 1. O. O. F. Hall of that place. He is a Mason, and a member of the Royal Arcanum. He married Alice Elizabeth Billinger.
PELTON, HENRY COLDEN, architect, was born in New York City, October 18, 1868, direct descendant of Samuel Pelton, born at Dorchester, Mass., about 1647. Mr. Pelton is a graduate of the Depart- ment of Architecture. School of Mines, Columbia University, class of 1889. Since that date he has practiced architecture in New York City. He is a member of the University Glee Club, Alpha Delta Phi Frater- nity, and the Columbia University Rowing Club.
MOULTON, J. WARRINER, architect, of the Borough of Rich- mond, was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1846, and is a descendant of Colonel Charles Moulton, who, at his own expense, raised and equipped a regiment for the patriot service in the Revolution. Mr. Moulton's father, Julius P. Moulton, was a prominent Democrat; his mother, Mary E. Cooper. traced descent from the family of Scott, which be- came established in this country in early colonial days. Mr. Moulton was graduated from the New Haven High School, and also at- tended lectures at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Beginning at the age of seventeen, he studied architecture with some - of the leading men in this profession. He has been a resident of Staten Island for more than twelve years. He is the architect of the new high school edifice at Port Richmond. His offices are at St. George. He was active in favoring the creation of the present corporation of the City of New York, being at one time the only charter member of the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce who favored consolidation. He wrote letters to the Legislative Committee which investigated the
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question of consolidation and the question of the inclusion of Rich- mond County, and made addresses before Mayor Strong and others. Before the Rapid Transit Commissioners and in the press he has opposed the project of an underground tunnel, recommending rapid transit over his own device of continuous steel bridges, from sixty to a hundred feet.
GRIEBEL, GEORGE H., was born in Berlin, Prussia, August 13. 1846, of wealthy and influential parents; was educated at a military academy for the Engineer Corps of the German Army. In 1865 he left the army and came to this city, where he at once began as an archi- tect, for which his education as an engineer had fitted him. He was in New York and Philadelphia from 1865 to 1868, when he located in Washington, D. C., opening an office. In 1869 he accepted employ- ment in the service of the Government, and for some years held the position of architect and engineer to the Quartermaster-General's Of- fice, War Department. In 1880 he resigned this position to establish himself in New York City. He superintended the construction of the Dakota Apartment Hotel for the Clark Estate, while for the same estate, during a period of eighteen years, he erected several fine struc- tures and rows of buildings. such as the Singer Manufacturing Com- pany's Office Building, Third Avenue and Sixteenth Street; fourteen houses on West Eighty-fifth Street, with a row on West Seventy-third Street, both rows being near Columbus Avenue; the Barnett Store, Seventy-fourth Street and Columbus Avenue, and many others. Other buildings erected by him include the Aschenbroedel Clubhouse, on East Eighty-sixth Street, of which club he was made a life member in recog- nition of his efficient services; the Unger Storage and Power Building, 46 East Houston Street; the Ahrens fireproof office building, corner of Elm and Franklin streets; the Majestic Apartment House, corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street, and many other buildings, equally prominent, including clubhouses, apartment hotels, and business buildings.
GARVIN, MICHAEL JOHN, was born in Grove Hill, Morrisania. N. Y., January 31, 1862, the son of Patrick and inn Garvin. His father, a carpenter and builder, was born in County Cork, Ireland, and his mother in Youghal, Ireland. He received his education at Manhattan Academy, this city, and for three years worked as a draughtsman, until poor health forced him to desist for a time. He then learned the work of a practical carpenter from beginning to end, after which he returned to architecture, which has been his profession con- tinuously since. He is now employed as an architect by the Twenty- third Ward Bank, the John Eichler Brewing Company, the Philip and William Ebling Brewing Company, Lyons & Chabot, drygoods mer- chants, and others. He is one of the trustees of St. Peter and St.
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Paul's Church, St. Am's Avenue and John Street, and is a member of the General Committee of Tammany Hall, representing the Thirty- sixth Assembly District. He is a member of the Bronson Catholic Club, Bronx Council, K. of C .; the Schnorer Club, the Emerald Club, and the Bronx Athletic Club. He married, in 1884, Cora Kroup, and has two children -- Edward John and Charles Joseph Garvin.
FREEDLANDER, JOSEPH HENRY, architect, was born in New York City, received his education as an architect at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Re- ceived here diploma from the French Government. Among his works are the Trade School. New York City, and the St. Louis Club, St. Louis.
MANNING, WILLIAM SOLOMON, landscape architect, was born in Reading, Mass., December 6, 1862, the son of JJacob Warren Man- ning and Lydia Brooks, daughter of Abiel Chandler. He is related to Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire. Rev. Dr. Manning, for many years pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, was a cousin. The first Manning in this country came from England and settled at Cam- bridge, Mass., in the seventeenth century. Mr. Manning was edu- cated at the public schools of Reading, Mass, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During ten years he was engaged in the growth and distribution of trees and other plants with his father. In 1891 he entered the office of F. L. Olmsted & Company, of Brookline, Mass., of which Frederick Law Olmsted was senior partner. At this time the grounds were laid out for the Columbian Exposition at Chi- cago, the estate of George W. Vanderbilt, at Asheville, N. C .; the estate of William Rockefeller, Tarrytown, N. Y .; the estate of Hamilton MeKay Twombley, Morristown, N. J .; the estate of Whitelaw Reid. White Plains, N. Y .; the estate of Adrian Iselin. Sr., New Rochelle, N. Y .; and the park systems of Boston, Rochester, and Buffalo. During the next two years be was engaged in working out in detail the park division of the estate of Hamilton MeKay Twombly. Since 1895 he has had his office in New York City. He is a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Central Park, and a vestryman of Grace Church, Madison, N. J .. where he resides. He was designer of James Park, a gift of D. Willis James, to Madison, N. J.
LOWRIE. CHARLES NASSAU, landscape architect, was born in ยท Warriors' Mark, Pa., April 8, 1869, the son of J. Roberts Lowrie and Matilda Hamill, daughter of Charles William Nassau, grandson of Walter Lowrie, and great-grandson of John Lowrie. He was gradu- ated in 1891 as a civil engineer from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, subsequently pursuing special studies along the lines of landscape art at Harvard University. In June, 1896, he opened an office in New York City. For the Department of Public
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Parks of New York City he has made plans and designs for the Edgar Allan Poe Park, Claremont Park, and the park along the Harlem River Speedway. He was consulted by the New York Zoological So- ciety respecting the landscape development of South Bronx Park, where the Zoological Gardens are being established. He has planned the grounds and supervised the construction of numerous country places and public parks in New England and the Middle States.
PRICE, BRUCE, well-known New York architect, was born in Cum- berland, Md .. December 12, 1845, the son of William Price, a distin- guished lawyer. Through his mother he descends from the royal family of Bruce of Scotland. He studied architecture with Niernsee & Neilson, of Baltimore, for about four years, and then traveled in Europe. Returning, he began practice at Baltimore, in partnership with a Mr. Baldwin. From 1873 to 1877 he practiced at Wilkesbarre. Pa., while since the latter year he has been established in New York City. He designed and erected the mammoth hotel at Long Beach. and many buildings at Tuxedo Park, N. Y .. including the " Gates of Tuxedo." the St. James Building, and other prominent edifices in New York; the Canadian Pacific Grand Terminal Station at Montreal; the steamer " New Brunswick," and many parler cars. He married Miss Josephine Lee, whose father was one of the earliest " coal barons " of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Union. Tuxedo, Reform, Players" and Central Clubs, the Southern Society, and the Architectural League.
HARDING, GEORGE EDWARD, architect and member of the firm of Harding & Gooch, was born in Bath, Me .. in April. 1845. He was prepared for college, and then came to New York City, and took a course in the School of Mines of Columbia University. He then studied architecture and engineering for three years in Europe, mainly in France and England. In 1872 he began professional practice in New York City in partnership with Arthur Gilman. In 1880 this partner- ship was dissolved. and from that time until 1889 he practiced alone. . Since the latter date he has had as his partner William Tyson Gooch. He has designed and erected many of the prominent buildings in New York, including the Holland House, the Hotel Brunswick, and the Postal Telegraph Building. He also designed the notable decorations of the main floor of the Hoffman House. He is a member of the Eng- fish. Commercial and Hardware clubs.
GOOCH, WILLIAM TYSON. of the firm of Harding & Gooch. was born in England in 1855. He studied architecture with Frederick William Porter, and other well-known architects of London, as well as with the Government architect at Paris. Coming to New York. he practiced his profession with C. C. Haight from 1882 to 1889, when he
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entered into his present partnership with George Edward Harding. He is a member of the Hardware and Commercial clubs.
ZUCKER. ALFRED, architect, was born in Freiburg. Silesia. Jan- uary 23, 1852, and is the son of Julins Zucker, a noted engineer. He received a collegiate education, and studied architecture at the poly- technic schools of Hanover and Aix-la-chapelle, and at the Berlin Academy. In 1872 and 1873 he was assistant superintendent to the architect in charge of the construction of the government railroad depot at Hanover. Coming to America in 1873, he engaged with A. B. Mul- let, supervising architect of the Treasury Department, Washington. D. C. In 1874 he was connected with the Board of Public Works. Dix- triet of Columbia. During the Congressional investigation of the Cap- itol improvements, he was in the office of the Engineer to the Auditing Department. In 1876 he began the practice of architecture at Galves- ton, Texas, in partnership with John Moser. They erected the Gal- veston Cotton Exchange building. He opened a branch office in Vicks- burg. and was appointed consulting architect to the Vicksburg & Mo- ridian Railroad. In 1879 he designed and erected the building of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi. Sub- segmently appointed architect in charge of the State buildings, he de- signed the court houses at Meridian and Corinth, the East Mississippi State Insane Asylum at Meridian, and the Deaf Mutes' Institute at . Jackson. He traveled in Europe from December. 1882, to August. 1283. Returning. he located in New York City, becoming the partner of the late Henry Fernbach. The latter died a few months later, since which time Mr. Zucker has practiced alone. The buildings designed and erected by him include the Progress Club. the Rouss Building. the Cossitt Building, the Hotel Majestic, the Geraldine, the Decker Buildl- ing, and the residences of Edward Lauterbach and Leopold Weissman. He is a member of the Progress Club and the Liederkranz. He married in 1880 Miss Jean N. Brooke, of an old Southern family.
LAURITZEN, PETER J., architect, was born in Denmark. received his education at the Academy and Polytechnic Institute of Copen- hagen, and in May. 1869, came to the United States. He received an appointment to the office of the Supervising Architect of the United States at Washington, and remained there for two years. In 1871 he began the private practice of his profession in Washington. In 1875 he was appointed City Architect, and designed and erected many build- ings for the Police and Fire Departments, with many school buildings. He designed the residences of ex-AAttorney General Williams, Admiral Stanley, and William Galt. as also the Simpson Building and the Fire Insurance Building. From 1875 to 1883 he represented the Danish Government as Consul at Washington. Since 1883 he has practiced his profession in New York City. For two years he managed the Jack-
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son Architectural Iron Works in this city, executing contracts for struc- tural iron for the Cohnfeld Building, the Mercantile Exchange. the building of the Eagle Fire Insurance Company, and the store of Smith. Gray & Company. Brooklyn. He designed and erected the Union League Club House. the house of the Manhattan Athletic Club. the resi- dence of M. F. Smith, Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, and many other not- able structures.
CHAPPELL. GEORGE P., is a well-known architect of Brooklyn Borough, New York, and is the designer of many of the more notable buildings of that and other boroughs. He is a director and the Score- tary of the St. Mark's Improvement Company, and is interested in other business enterprises. He is a member of the Union League Club of Brooklyn, and of the New York Architectural League.
WOLFF. PHILIP, head of the firm of Philip Wolff & Son, has long been established at Stapleton. Borough of Richmond, as an architect. builder, mason, and general contractor, and has erected many build- ings, including school buildings, on Staten Island and elsewhere. He is a member of various clubs and societies.
MeELFATRICK, JOHN B .. head of the firm of J. B. MeElfatrick & Sons, architects and builders, was born in Harrisburg. Pa .. in 1827, the son of Edward McElfatrick. a well-known architect. He received his education in the public schools, studied engineering and railroad build- ing in Philadelphia. and subsequently established himself as an archi- tect and builder in Harrisburg. He has made a specialty of theaters. and has designed more than a hundred in various parts of the United States. He erected the Bank of Harlem, the Broadway Theater. the Harlem Opera House, the Standard Theater, the Bijou Theater, Herr- mann's Theater, the Star Theater, and the Columbus Theater. all of New York City; the Amphion Academy and the Park Theater, Brook- lyn; the National Theater, Washington; Tremont Theater, Boston; the Park. Bijou, and National theaters, and the German Opera House, Phil- adelphia; the Opera House and the People's Theater, Chicago; the Olympic. Pope's, and Standard theaters, the Grand Opera House, and the Music Hall. St. Louis; together with theaters and opera houses in Cincinnati. Detroit, St. Paul. Pittsburg. Louisville, Nashville, Memphis. Kansas City. Madison ( Wis.). Springfield (Mass.), and many other cities. The firm established its headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853; re- moving. successively. to Fort Wayne, Chicago, Louisville, and St. Louis. Offices are now maintained in both St. Louis and New York. John M. MeElfatrick was admitted to partnership with his father in 1876, while two years later. when the offices were established in St. Louis, he was placed in charge of them. He has since died. Another son. William
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HI. MeElfatrick, was taken into partnership in 1883, and is in charge of the offices and business of the firm in New York City.
BRADY, THOMAS J., was born in New York City, December 25, 1852, and is the son of Terence and Anne Brady. He received his edu- cation in Grammar School No. 28, in West Fortieth Street, and also in the public evening schools for drawing and designing. From 1865 to 1869 he was employed as an office and errand boy by a hardware firm. In 1869 he was apprenticed to a mason, and in due course of time won promotion to the position of superintendent for a prominent firm of general contractors. When the New York Elevated Railway System was built he was the superintendent and manager of the work for the contractors, and also acted in a similar capacity when the Sea Beach Railroad was built to Coney Island. On January 1, 1884, he was appointed an Inspector of Buildings in the Bureau of Buildings of the Fire Department. On October 19 1887, he was appointed First Deputy Superintendent of Buildings, and on April 1, 1889, was made Superin- tendent of Buildings in the Bureau of Inspection of Buildings of the Fire Department. In April. 1892, a bill was introduced in the Legis- lature creating the Department of Buildings, by combining the Bureau of Inspection of Buildings of the Fire Department with the Bureau of Plumbing and Drainage, Light and Ventilation of the Health Depart- ment, and on April 19 of the same year Mayor Grant appointed Mr. Brady Superintendent of Buildings, or head of the newly created de- partment. The department was organized and open for business on June 2, 1892, at the present offices, No. 220 Fourth Avenue. In Janu- ary, 1898, Mr. Brady was once more appointed to this office by Mayor Van Wyck. At present he is Chairman of the Municipal Building Code Commission, which is engaged in revising and codifying the New York City building laws. He is a member of the Engineers, Democratic. Colonial, Catholic, Narragansett, Pontiac. Amsterdam, and Driving Clubs, the Building Trades, the Catholic Benevolent Legion, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and the Knights of Columbus. His older brother, John T. Brady, was the builder and contractor for the Grant. Monument. at One Hundred and Twenty-third street and Riverside Drive. He is a prominent builder.
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