Arnold William Brunner (b. 1857 - d. 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, later he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied under George B. Post. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects after 1892 and a member of several other architecture related organizations. Brunner was, at one time, partnered with Thomas Tryon as the firm Brunner & Tryon. Together they designed the 1897 Congregation Shearith Israel, In New York City, near Central Park.
Notable works
Brunner designed several notable buildings including the collaboration with Tryon on the 1897 Congregation Shearith Israel, which today houses the United States' oldest Jewish congregation.[1] Brunner also designed the Albany City Plan and water fronts, 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 Cleveland, Ohio. 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.[2]
Notes
- ^ Congregation Shearith Israel, Building Report, International Survey of Jewish Monuments. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
- ^ "Arnold Brunner," Brief Biographies of American Architects: Who Died Between 1897 and 1947, Society of Architectural Historians. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
