Background
Gerald A. Holmes was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Gerald A. Holmes was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
He was educated in the city schools, afterward studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1903 with a B. S. degree.
After two years of supplementary training in draftsmanship with the Philadelphia firm of Day & Klauder, Mr. Holmes moved to New York to begin his career in McKim, Mead & White’s offices.
In 1923 he became a member of the firm of Thompson, Holmes & Converse and over a period of fifteen years practiced in that association. He was particularly identified with the planning and/or erection of buildings at New York City College; Bronx Center at Hunter College; Psychiatry Building at Bellevue Hospital; Civic Center and Municipal Building at Rochester, N.Y., and the Munsey Building in Baltimore. He was also connected with work at the Hotel Andrew Jackson at Nashville, Tenn., Hotel Carling at Jacksonville, Florida, and independently designed a number of fine homes.