Background
George W. Conable was born in 1866 at Cortland, New York, United States.
George W. Conable was born in 1866 at Cortland, New York, United States.
He received a formal education at Cornell University, and following his graduation in 1890, took up architectural study.
After acquiring training and experience in different offices in New York, in 1905 he joined Ernest Flagg to assist in preparing plans for the Singer Building, For a subsequent period of six years (1908-14) he was a member of Hobart Upjohn’s office where he collaborated on the plans of a number of ecclesiastical buildings including the Lutheran Church and Parish House at 164 West 114th Street, and other churches at Stapleton, N. Y., and in Philadelphia.
During another and later period he collaborated with William E.Austin on a number of hospitals in greater New York, the most important of which were: the Willard Parker Hospital, a group at the Kingston Avenue Brooklyn Hospital, the Riverside Hospital on Brother Island, and at Jamaica, Long Island, the Hospital for Contagious Diseases. He was also associated with Mr. Austin on plans for the Hallenbach-Hungerford Building in New York.