Background
George M. Anderson was born in 1869.
George M. Anderson was born in 1869.
George studied at the city public schools in his youth. Later received a professional education at the Department of Architecture in Columbia University and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.
Mr. Anderson was employed for a few years as draftsman in the office of Samuel Hannaford & Sons, one of the leading firms in the city, and on leaving there, joined the late Alfred C. Elzner in a partnership. He continued practice under the firm name of Elzner & Anderson, and until the time of his own decease was connected with the design of a number of the city's early buildings, notably the Avondale Presbyterian Church , and the Ingalls Building, also the Children's Hospital, associated on the latter with Stanley Matthews.
