Background
Gayle, Margot was born on May 14, 1908 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
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New York City houses more cast iron buildings than any place in the world. This book collects and describes some of the best examples of this mode of construction.
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The first book on the life and work of the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture. Nineteenth-century American inventor and entrepreneur James Bogardus was known for his unique grinding mill and other patented devices, but his enduring claim to fame is his cast-iron structures, forerunners of the modern skyscraper. A passionate advocate for iron's strength, economy, suitability for ornamentation, and fire resistance, he invented several new methods of construction; his buildings rose from New York to San Francisco and Havana. Modern interest in Bogardus stems from the historic preservation movement; his four surviving buildings, in New York, are recognized landmarks.
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Gayle, Margot was born on May 14, 1908 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Bachelor, University Michigan, 1930. Master of Science in Bacteriology, Emory University, 1933.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri she earned an undergraduate degree from University of Michigan and a master"s degree in bacteriology from Emory University. They moved to New York, where she wrote for Columbia Broadcasting System Radio, then worked as a freelance writer and public relations executive. Gayle wrote an architecture column for The Daily News for 16 years.
Gayle helped preserve the Jefferson Market Courthouse in the 1960s.
In the wake of the destruction of Pennsylvania Station, she helped lobby for passage of a preservation law. She also received the Historic Districts Council"s Landmarks Lion award in 1993.
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Co-founder Victorian Society of America, New York City, 1966. Democratic state committeewoman, district leader, Manhattan, 1953-1961. Co-chair Committee to Restore History Yorkville Clock, 1999.
Member Friends of Cast Iron Architecture (founder, president), Municipal Art Society New York (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis medal for preservation of the Soho cast iron history district 1997), Victorian Society of America (metropolitan chapter Lifetime Achievement award 1997, Book award 1999), Fine Arts Federation New York (president), Women's City Club, Society Industrial Archaeology (General Tools Lifetime Achievement award 1997), Preservation League New York State (Lifetime Achievement award 1999), Victorian Society in American (President award 1999), Friends of the Upper East Side History district (Ralph Menapace award 2000), Secial Recognition award, Art Commission of New York City, 2001.
Daughter of David Bunn and Edith Mildred (Cheatham) McCoy. Widowed; children: Carol, Gretchen Gayle Ellsworth.