Background
Alexander Mackintosh was born on October 2, 1861 in London, England. He was a son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Smith) Mackintosh.
Alexander Mackintosh was born on October 2, 1861 in London, England. He was a son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Smith) Mackintosh.
At the age of eighteen, Alexander Mackintosh graduated at the Royal Academy.
After being employed as a draftsman in Edinburgh and later Glasgow, Mackintosh returned to London to join the office of Sir Ashton Webb, and during that early period of practice became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Arriving in this country in 1896 he began his American career in New York associated with Francis H. Kimball, one of the city's leading architects. Among the important works in that office with which Mr. Mackintosh was identified was the Empire Bedding (extant), erected in 1898 at Broadway and Kector Street, which in design compared favorably with both the old and more recent buildings in that section of New York. In 1901 he established his own office in Brooklyn. He designed the North Side Bank in Brooklyn, 1914, the Cobb Office Building and the Major L'Enfant Building in Patterson, New Jersey, and in later years as Associate Architect on the Long Branch, New Jersey.
Active until shortly before his death at the age of eighty-four, Mackintosh had been a member of the Brooklyn Chapter, A. I. A. after 1903, served as Secretary for two terms (1903-05) and as President from 1910 to 1912. In 1923 he was raised to A. I. A. Fellowship, and in the following year became a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Alexander Mackintosh was a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and New Jersey Society of Architects (Newark).
On December 6, 1911 Alexander Mackintosh married Jeannette E. Day. On June 9, 1945 she died.