Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-29
c. B. POST, FAMOUS
ARCHITECT, DIES
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buildings alone the services of over
5000 employees.
These buildings have $4,000 square
feet of floor space, contain 100000
cubic feet and front on four streets.
There are 45 elevators, 375 telephones
and three tunnels connect the build
ings.
The Prudential issues about 1000, 900
policies yearly, and Mr.. Post designed
in such way to make the home office
facilities such that every clerk, man.
ager and department head can do the
greatest possible amount of work UNI
der the best conditions, thus assuring,
according to the company, the great
ate expense rate in home Office man.
agement.
AS designer of some of the famous
buildings in New York and the coun-
try Mr.. Post won fame in his profess
sion. Among the structures he de-
signed are the New York Stock EX-
change, the New York Produce Ex-
change. the College of the City of New
York, the Pulitzer building, the West
ern Union Building in Dey street, the
Wisconsin State Capitol, the Cleve-
land Trust Company building in
Cleveland and the Manufacturers
Liberal Arts buildings, covering forty
acres at the Chicago exposition.
Mr.. Post also designed the Equitable
Life Assurance Society building
which was destroyed by fire and sew
eral well known residences, including
those of Cornelius Vanderbilt and
Coils p Huntington.
Mr. Post was the son of Joel b. Post.
He was educated at ChGrchill's Mill
tary School at Sing Sing. and was
graduated as a civil engineer from the
Scientific School of New York Uni
versity in 1858. He studied architect
ure with the late Richard M. Hunt.
and formed partnership with
Charles d. Gambrill in 1860.
He served as a captain in the TWEEN
ty-second Regiment of New York
Volunteers for a part of 1852 and
1863, and as volunteer aide he was
on the staff of Gen. Burnside, COM
manding the Army of the Potomac, in
1862 at the battle of Fredericksburg.
He was promoted to major, lieuten-
ant-eolonel and colonel of the Twen-
ty-second. In 1863 Mr.. Post married
Alice M Stone. There are five chill
dren-George B. jr., William s., A.
Wright, James Otis and Alice w, of
New York. Mr.. Posts town residence
was 129 East Sixty-ninth street.
Mr.. Post was at various times pres
ident of many architectural societies.
He was a member of the Tenement
House Commission known as the
Glider commission. In 1900 he was
made a chevalier de la Legion d Hon
neur, of France, and in 1910 he was
awarded the gold medal of the Amer
lean Institute of Architects.
The secretary of state appointed
him a delegate to the worlds con-
gress of architects in London, to rep.
resent American architects, and In
1906 the secretary of agriculture ap-
pointed him a collaboration of tho
forest service of the United States
of agriculture. He was
appointed an honorary corresponding
member of the Royal Institute of
British Architects in 1907.
President Roosevelt appointed him
a member of the national advisory
rails In 1906, and he was reappointed
In each of the three following years.
In 1907 he was elected an associate
of the National Academy Of Design
and a year later an academician of
the academy.
In 1908 he was appointed a member
of the permanent committee of the
congress of architects,
and in 1909 President Roosevelt made
him a member of the bureau of fine
arts. Governor Odell, of New York,
in 1902 made him a member of the
board of commissions of the st. Louis
Columbia University con-
ferred on him the honorary degree of
doctor of laws in 1908.