Background
Poor, Alfred Easton was born on May 24, 1899 in Baltimore. Son of Charles Lane and Anna Louise (Easton) Poor.
Poor, Alfred Easton was born on May 24, 1899 in Baltimore. Son of Charles Lane and Anna Louise (Easton) Poor.
Student, St. George's School, Newport, Rhode Island, 1911-1916; Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1920; B. Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1923; M. Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1924; Woodman travelling fellow architecture, 1925.
Foreign the United States Federal Government. Poor was the president of the National Academy of Design in New York from 1966 to 1977, organizing its 150th anniversary in 1975. Over his long career, Poor"s projects include both public and private sector works.
Foreign the United States Government, he worked on a project that restored and extended the East Front of the United States Capitol building in the early 1960s, and was also a leading architect in designing the United States Library of Congress" James Madison Memorial Building, the third-largest public building in Washington.
Poor was especially active in the New York City area. His projects include the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, the Queens County Courthouse and prison in Kew Gardens, the Home Insurance Company Building, and the 40-acre Red Hook housing projects.
Poor was chosen by Walter Annenberg to design the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. According to his obituary in the New York Times, he also "designed dozens of branch offices in Manhattan and abroad for the Chemical, National City and Marine Midland banks" and "designed a number of Long Island country homes." Other works include the Cape Cinema, in Dennis, Massachusetts.
Alfred Easton Poor was a son of Charles Lane Poor.
He served in the United States Navy in World War I and in the United States Navy Reserve in World World War World War II
Trustee Metropolitan Museum Art, Burke Foundation Ensign United States Navy, 1918-1919. Flight instructor Air Station Key West, Florida. Commander United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946.
Bureau Aeor. representative 1943-1945, Trenton, New Jersey. N.A. Fellow American Institute of Architects, International Institute Arts and Letters, Royal Society Arts. Member National Institute Architectural Education, National Academy of Design (president), American Water Color Society, Federation Alliances Francaises (director), Delta Phi.
Clubs: Metropolitan (Washington), Knickerbocker (president), Century (New York City).
Married Janet Sheppard, October 26, 1929. Children: Charles Lane, John Sheppard, Anna Easton.