Henry Hornbostel

Henry Hornbostel

Henry Hornbostel (1867 - 1961) was an American architect.

He designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and monuments in the United States; currently 22 are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated in 1891 from Columbia University and also studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. He was a partner, over his career, in the New York firms of Howell, Stokes & Hornbostel; Wood, Palmer & Hornbostel; Palmer & Hornbostel; and Palmer, Hornbostel & Jones. He also practiced independently from a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office.

Buildings

Nearly half of his works (110) were in Pittsburgh, an industrial boomtown in the early twentieth century, where in 1904 he won the campus design competition for Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Technical Schools (today's Carnegie Mellon University). He also helped to establish Carnegie Mellon's School of Architecture that same year. Among his many landmark are:
* Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh (1904)
* Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial, Pittsburgh (1907)
* Pittsburgh City-County Building, (1915-1917, with Edward B. Lee)
* At his Alma Mater, St. Anthony Hall Fraternity, New York (Building #96000484 listed as "Delta Psi, Alpha Chapter" [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/New+York/state3.html] .

Hornbostel is also noted for his work on the Queensboro Bridge (1909), done jointly with Gustav Lindenthal.

References

*cite book | author=Kidney, Walter C. | title=Henry Hornbostel: An Architect's Master Touch| location=Pittsburgh | publisher=Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation & Roberts Rinehart Publishers | year=2002 | id=ISBN 1-57098-398-4
*Patricia Lowry (2002). [http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20021119hornbostel1119fnp3.asp New book assesses Henry Hornbostel's influence on Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] . Retrieved April 26, 2006.

External links

* [http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/hornbost.html Henry Hornbostel Collection, Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives]


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