Background
Arnold W. Brunner was born in 1857 in New York, United States.
Arnold W. Brunner was born in 1857 in New York, United States.
He was educated in the city schools of New York , and after completing a special course in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He continued his training as a draftsman in the office of George B. Post in New York. In 1896 he joined the late Thomas Tryon in partnership and under the firm name of Brunner & Tryon designed the Congregation Shearwith Israel, oldest Jewish Synagogue in New York, opened in 1897, at Central Park West and 70th Street. Another of the firm's work of that period was the Chemistry Building at the College of the City of New York.
After 1898 Mr. Brunner practiced independently, actively engaged in the planning and execution of a number of important commissions. Among these were the Mount Sinai Hospital, 1898; the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn; new buildings at the Jewish Maternity Hospital at 10th Street and Fifth Avenue; the School of Mines at Columbia University, 1904; Students' Building at Barnard College; new units of the Jewish Theological Seminary at 123rd Street, New York, and the concrete stadium for the College of the City of New York; also Chapel and dormitories at Denison University, Granville, O; and the Cadet Hospital at West Point, N. Y„ 1924, Early in the century he was appointed architect of a group of buildings on the Mall in Cleveland, of which the first to be completed was the Federal Building in 1910, followed by the County Court House, and the Finance Building, the latter erected in 1929 after Mr. Brunner's death under the direction of the New York firm of Gehron & Ross.
Mr. Brunner was an active member and past-president of the New York Chapter, a member of the Architectural League of New York, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and was appointed to the National Council of Design by the late President, Theodore Roosevelt.