- Bruce Price
Bruce Price (
12 December ,1845 –29 May ,1903 ) was thearchitect of many of theCanadian Pacific Railway 's Château-type stations andhotel s. A fine example of his work for CP isMontreal 's Windsor Station and thechateau of CP co-founder James Ross now known as Chancellor Day Hall atMcGill University .Born in
Cumberland, Maryland , Bruce Price practiced briefly in Baltimore andWilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania , before moving toNew York in 1877. Price married Josephine Lee of Wilkes-Barre. His daughterEmily Price , who wrote under the nameEmily Post , is the famous author of books onetiquette . Early in his career, Price worked on a series of domestic projects which culminated in the design and layout ofTuxedo Park , a vacation community in New York. TheShingle style houses Price built at Tuxedo, with their compact massing and axial plans, influenced several young architects includingFrank Lloyd Wright .After four years of internship in the office of the Baltimore
architect s Niernsee & Neilson, he began his professional work in Baltimore withEphraim Francis Baldwin as a partner. Following a brief study trip toEurope , he opened an office in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he practiced from 1873 to 1876. He then settled inNew York , where he designed many office buildings, among them theAmerican Surety Building ,St James Building , and theInternational Bank . One of the residential works which made him famous was the laying out of Georgian Court, the neo-Georgian residence ofGeorge Jay Gould I , esq, inLakewood, New Jersey .Price invented, patented, and built the parlor bay-window cars for the
Pennsylvania Railroad and for the Boston and Albany. This work prompted the Canadian Pacific Railways to consider his portfolio. He designed theChâteau Frontenac in Quebec for the railway, as well as the firstBanff Springs Hotel in Alberta and many other hotels and stations. He also collaborated with sculptorDaniel Chester French on theRichard Morris Hunt Memorial (1898) set into the wall of New York'sCentral Park , and several memorial buildings atYale University .He was a Fellow of the
American Institute of Architects (1890), and belonged to theArchitectural League of New York as well.Selected works
* 1886
Sterling Homestead
* 1888Banff Springs Hotel
* 1891Welch Hall ,Yale University
* 1893Château Frontenac
* 1894American Surety Building
* 1896 Georgian Court
* 1902Audrain Building
* 1903Northfield Chateau
* 1904Thomas T. Gaff House
* 1909 Clarence Moore HouseSee also
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Canada's railway hotels
*Canadian Pacific hotels
*Canadian Pacific Railway References
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