Background
Albert S. Gottlieb was born in 1870 at Port Chester, New York, United States.
Albert S. Gottlieb was born in 1870 at Port Chester, New York, United States.
He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Beginning his career in New York, the young man entered McKim, Mead & White's office in 1892 and remained with the firm until 1900, acquiring valuable experience in working on plans of the Library at Columbia University, the Metropolitan Club and other important buildings. In 1901 Mr. Gottlieb established his own office in the city, and continued to practice independently until 1935, in which year he retired to his home at Harrington, Delaware. Among his best known works were the Jewish Temple B'Nai Jeshurum at Newark. N J. built in 1915, the Greenville Public Library in Jersey Citv and the Fifth Avenue office of L. Alvoime & Company in New York
From 1911 he was a member of American Institute of Architects.