Background
Bradford Gilbert was born in 1853 in Watertown, New York, United States.
(South Side Sportsmen's Club was a recreational club that ...)
South Side Sportsmen's Club was a recreational club that catered to the wealthy businessmen of Long Island during the gold coast era from the 1870s thru the 1960s. Its main clubhouse and other facilities were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Southside Sportsmens Club District in 1973, and are today contained within the Connetquot River State Park Preserve.
Bradford Gilbert was born in 1853 in Watertown, New York, United States.
Mr. Gilbert received an architectural training in the New York office of J. Cleveland Cady. At the age of twenty-three he was appointed official architect of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, and in that capacity designed a number of the company’s stations. Later he remodelled the old Grand Central Station in New York, supervised the erection of the Northern Pacific Railway offices at St. Paul, Minn., and at one time served as Consulting Architect to a number of the main railroad companies.
During subsequent years Mr. Gilbert maintained an independent office in New York engaged in practice of a general nature. His work included office buildings and public structures of various types, noted examples of which were the Tower Building in New York, fifteen stories in height, built in 1898, the New York City Riding Club, the Arms Hotel at Berkeley, N. J. and the old Jefferson Presbyterian Church in Detroit. He was also appointed Supervising Architect of the International and Cotton States Exposition which opened at Atlanta, Ga. in 1895, and in 1901 served in a similar position at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition at Charleston.