Arnold Brunner

Arnold William Brunner (1857 – February 14, 1925) was an American architect who was born and died in New York City. Brunner was educated in New York and in Manchester, England. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied under William R. Ware. Early in his career, he worked in the architectural office of George B. Post. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects after 1892 and was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to the National Commission on Fine Arts in Washington D.C. He was a member of the New York Fine Arts Commission, the American Civic Association, The Century Association, The Engineer's Club, The Players, the Cosmos Club in Washington D.C., the National Institute of Arts and Letters, The Union Club of Cleveland, and several other organizations. Brunner was also known as a city planner, and made significant contributions to the city plans of Cleveland, OH, Rochester, NY, Baltimore, MD, Denver, CO, Trenton, NJ, and Albany, NY. Brunner was, for a short time, partnered with Thomas Tryon as the firm Brunner & Tryon.

Notable works

Brunner designed several notable buildings including, with Tryon, the 1897 Congregation Shearith Israel, on Central Park West, New York, to house the United States' oldest Jewish congregation, founded in 1654. [http://isjm.best.vwh.net/Buildings/records/BR287.htm Congregation Shearith Israel] , Building Report, "International Survey of Jewish Monuments". Retrieved 3 April 2007.] Brunner also designed improvements at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, the Stadium of the College of the City of New York, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and the U.S. Post Office, Custom House and Courthouse in the Group Plan (1903) for a new urbanistic center for Cleveland, Ohio, which was a rare realisation of a "City Beautiful" plan, in which Brunner sat on the planning committee with Daniel Burnham and John Carrère. [ [http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=M Encyclopedia of Cleveland] .] . Other work in Ohio included the Monumental Bridge in Toledo and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He also won the competition for the design of the U.S. State Department Building in Washington D.C." [http://www.sah.org/oldsite06012004/aame/biob.html#83 Arnold Brunner] ," Brief Biographies of American Architects: Who Died Between 1897 and 1947, "Society of Architectural Historians". Retrieved 3 April 2007.]

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