Background
Grunsfeld, Ernest Alton was born on August 25, 1897 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Son of Ernest Alton and Theresa (Nusbaum) Grunsfeld.
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Ernest Alton Grunsfeld
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Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1918. Certificate in naval architecture, same, 1919. Studied Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1920-1922, American Academy in Rome, 1921.
Career
Architect Whitehall Hotel, 1926. Michigan Boulevard Apartments (Negro housing project founded by Julius Rosenwald), 1928.
Jewish People's Institute, 1925.
Stephen A. Douglas Branch Library (Chicago), 1928. Infirmary, Massachusetts Institute Technology (with C. Butler), 1927.
Adler Planetarium, 1930. Terrazo Promenade, and Lumber House Exhibit for National Lumber Manufacturing Association at A Century of Progress Exposition, 1933.
Main broadcasting studio World"s Greatest Newspaper, 1935.
Chicago Bar Association, 1937. Alverthorpe (residence and gallery for L. J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania), 1939. Max Straus Community Center, Chicago, 1941.
Bachelor Officers Quarters, Great Lakes, Illinois 1942.
Various war housing projects. Consulting architect.
Sinai Temple. Also many residences and miscellaneous work, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Columbus, Detroit, Savannah, New New York Visiting lecturer U. Illinois, 1950, Leland Stanford, 1951, 52.
Exhibited paintings Salon d’Antomne, Paris, 1956, 57, 58, 59. President Ernest A. Grunsfeld Fund.
Awards. Gold medal Societe des Architectes, par le Gouvernement Francais, 1917.
Student medal American Institute Architects, 1918. Gold medal Chicago Chapter, same for Alder Planetarium, 1931.
Rotch prize, 1918. Silver medal and diploma Pan-American Architectural Congress, Montevideon, 1939.
Gold Medal Order of Civic Merit (France). Chevalier Legion of Honor (France).
Achievements
Membership
Member of the Illinois Housing Commission, 1931. Member architectural groups for design of Jane Addams Trumbull. Cabrini and Brooke and other housing projects.
Served in United States Navy, 1918-1919.
(Fellow) The American Institute of Architects. Clubs: Tavern.
Connections
Married Mary-Jane Loeb, 1926. Married second, Maurine G. McCormick, 1943. Children: Esther, Ernest Alton III.
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Nationality
American