Background
Albert C. Berger was born in 1879 in Hungary.
Albert C. Berger was born in 1879 in Hungary.
After the technical education at the University of Budapest, Albert was graduated in Engineering at the age of twenty.
After migrated to the United States in 1904, Albert began his career in New York as a draftsman, employed first in the office of Schwartz & Green, later was associated with the firm of Starret & Van Vleck for several years. After 1923 when he began practice under the firm name of Sugarman & Berger, he was active until the time of his decease. On completion of the huge Hotel New Yorker in 1928, the firm designed the Garment Center Build¬ing on Seventh Avenue and was associated with Harvey Corbett on the Hotel at No. 1 Fifth Avenue and the Roerich Museum at Riverside Drive and 103rd Street. The last project on which Mr. Berger was independently engaged was the Rockliffe Apartments at Montclair, N. J.