Background
George B. Ferry was born in 1851 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
George B. Ferry was born in 1851 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1871-72. Ferry was one of Wisconsin's first academically trained architects.
Some years later he established a home in Milwaukee, and in 1880 began practice in partnership with the late Alfred C. Clas under the name of Ferry & Clas.
The firm designed a number of the city's early buildings, notable examples of which were the Public Library and Museum; City Hospital; the Plankinton Hotel; and the Northwestern National Insurance Building. They also were architects of the Public Library at Jackson, Mich.; Library of the State Historical Society at Madison, Wise.; and the Wisconsin State Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis in 1906.