Background
Charles I. Berg was born in 1856 in Philadelphia, United States.
(Erected in 1887 on a lot 25 feet by 73 feet, at the corne...)
Erected in 1887 on a lot 25 feet by 73 feet, at the corner of Wall and Nassau Streets, it was twenty stories in height, and one of the first "sky-scrapers" in the city, standing until some years after Mr. Berg's death when it was razed to make way for the Bankers’ Trust Building.
Charles I. Berg was born in 1856 in Philadelphia, United States.
Charles studied architecture in the Atelier Andre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.
After returning to New York Mr. Berg began his career in partnership with J. Cleveland Cady and Milton See in the firm with which he was connected for many succeeding years. One of the most important of the firm’s early commissions was the old Metropolitan Opera House (opened to the public in 1883), followed by the first building of the group at the American Museum of Natural History. Later in his practice, Mr. Berg was commissioned to design a number of commercial structures in New York, the most important of which was the Gillender Building. Erected in 1887 on a lot 25 feet by 73 feet, at the corner of Wall and Nassau Streets, it was twenty stories in height, and one of the first "skyscrapers" in the city, standing until some years after Mr. Berg's death when it was razed to make way for the Bankers’ Trust Building. Among his other works were the Charles Building, on Madison Avenue at 43rd St., the Windsor Arcade and the Hotel Touraine, the latter of French design, built on Fifth Avenue at 39th St. In 1915 he was appointed Consulting Architect of the President's Palace at Havana, Cuba, his last important commission before he retired, due to illness, about 1926.