New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-03
DEATH OF GEO. 81. PELHAM.
STRUCK DOWN WITH ApOPLExY AT An
ELEVATED STATION.
HIS WORK AS AN ARCHITECT IN THIS CITY ANH
ELSEWHERE-A SKETCH OF HIS LITE-ARS.

HIS WORK AS AN ARCHITECT IN THIS CITY ANH
ELsEwHERE-A SKETCH OF HIS LEE-NRs.
PELHAM FRUSTRATED.
Great excitement was caused at the Thirty y-th1rd|
st. uptown station Of the SiXth.ave. elevated rak
road at about o'clock yesterday afternoon by tho
sudden death by apopleXy Of George b. Pelham, q
wel[known architect of this city. Mr. Pelham has
occupied an office at No. l,4sl Broadway for four
years, having previously had an office at No. SO
Wall-st., and it was while coming uptown from q
business engagement that he was suddenly taken
sick and faint and got of the train at Thirty.
thlrd-st. to get something to help him. Once on
the platform he staggered to a BENCH and sittina
down, fell backward, dead. The body was taken
to the Ihirtieth-st police station, and from therS
to hfs home, No. 81 East Seventy.eighth- st..
which he owned
Mr. Pelham was born in London England, In
1881, and was graduated at an English universt ty.
In ls59 he was sent by the English Government
to Ottawa to plan and superntend the erection
of the present Government buildings. This hs
did in satisfactory manner, altogether spend-
ing nine years in Canada, for the most part
working for the Government From Ottawa ho
moved in 1868 to Portland, Maine, arriving there
a short time after the great fire had devastated
that city. Here work was plenty, and he prose
percd, but at the end Of three years the place.
being entirely rebuilt, stopped growing and wish-
ing TO secure the advantages Of a hrSer spherey
wherr he could extend his work, he settled in
this city in s7l and has stayed here ever since.
MIR. pELHAM'S WORK IN NEw.YoRK.
At various times in his business career in News
York Mr.. Pelham has been associated with other
prominent architects in the designing and buildS
ing of many large fat-houscs and other buildingsl
but he has made speciality lately OF acting as a
consulting architect. lie WIS IA friend of o. b.
Potter. and WAS associated with him in a con,
fdental capacity III the building OF the majority
OF large houses owned by him. notably in the
plans Of the Potter building.
Mr.. Pelham for several wears was the 0ftciaI
architect Of the Park Department. and has lcft
on enduring monument TO his name and genius
in the beautiful proportions of The Belvedere in
Genital Park. and also of the terrace.
Pelham. became associated with his father
IN business and did the architectural
DESIGNING, mor especially OF private dwellings,
fO- the firm Of James & Taylor and other con-
tractors and builders. Mr. Pelham, jr., will con-
tinue the business OF his father for some time ia
come at No. ,4sl Broadway.
MRS PELHAM FRUSTRATED BY THE SHOCK. |
Mr.. Pelham was vcstryman IN the Church od
the Epiphany, at Forty -scvcnth-st and LeXington-
ave. He was we'll known and liked by the cons
grrgation OF that church. The funeral will be-
on Monday at the Church OF the Epiphany, and
the scrvictS Will be conducted by the Rev. DE-.
Butler. The burial will be- at WOodlawn.
The news OF Mr.. Pclham's sudden death was
and the former is Frustrated by the effect Of the
first intcll grncr Mr. Pelham married in Eng<
land Miss Eliza Bnllivant, and one son and two
daughters survive him.