Background
George L. Morse was born in 1836 at Bangor, Maine, United States.
George L. Morse was born in 1836 at Bangor, Maine, United States.
When a youth went to New York where he studied under the late Jarvis Wheeler, an English-born architect.
In 1860 Mr. Morse started practice for himself, opening an office in the Brooklyn Post Building on Montague Street, and in his early work established a reputation in the field of domestic architecture.
As his practice continued to increase, Mr. Morse was commissioned to design both public and business structures, including the new home of the newspaper, the Brooklyn Eagle, built prior to 1893; Mechanics Bank, Montague and Court Streets; Franklin Trust Company; the Straus Building, and the First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, designed in a modified form of French Gothic, and erected at the north-east corner of Seventh Avenue and Carroll Street.