Albert Buchman
Albert Buchman (1859–1936) was an American architect in practice in New York. Life and career. Buchman was born April 11, 1859 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Cornell University, graduating in 1880. He then took a job with the architect Herman J. Schwarzmann in New York. In 1884, he was made junior partner in the firm of Schwarzmann & Buchman. Schwarzmann retired in 1886, and Buchman began practicing under his own name. In 1887, he made Gustav Deisler junior partner in Buchman & Deisler. This continued until 1899, when Deisler retired from the firm and Buchman associated with Mortimer J. Fox  as Buchman & Fox. This partnership lasted until 1917, when Fox was appointed a vice president of the Columbia Bank. After Fox retired, Buchman formed a fourth and final partnership with Ely Jacques Kahn, as Buchman & Kahn. Office manager John M. Montfort was also associated. Due to his health Buchman eventually retired, and in January, 1930 Kahn reestablished the practice as the Firm of Ely Jacques Kahn, in association with Montfort. Buchman died in New York, April 15, 1936. Buchman was a member of the American Institute of Architects from 1921 to 1929.