Background
Robert W. Gibson was born in 1854 in England, United Kingdom.
Robert W. Gibson was born in 1854 in England, United Kingdom.
Gibson studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
He first began practice in Albany where he was commissioned to design the All Saints Episcopal Cathedral. The church, English Gothic in type, considered a notable achievement of an architect not then thirty years of age, was dedicated in 1884 before being completed, and remains still in an un¬finished state with the last major construction carried out between 1902 and 1904.
In 1887 Mr. Gibson became a naturalized citizen, and began his career with an office in New York City. In carrying on a large and lucrative practice for many years, he planned and successfully completed numerous public and commercial structures in the city, of which should be named the following: West End Collegiate Church, 1892; Ear and Eye Infirmary at Second Avenue and 13th Street, 1894; New York Clearing House, at 77 Cedar Street, 1896; U. S. Trust Co. Building, 45-47 Wall St. (won in a competition); Fifth Avenue Savings Bank; Greenwich Savings Bank; Coffee Exchange, at 110 Pearl Street; Women’s Hotel, 29th St. near Madison Ave. begun 1901. Among other buildings he designed outside of New York were; St. Stephen's Church, at Olean, N. Y.; Griswold Hotel, New London, Conn; Merchants and Mechanics Bank, Scranton, Pa.; and restoration of St. Paul's Church at Buffalo, originally designed by Richard Upjohn and built 1860-61. In addition Mr. Gibson designed a large number of country homes and estates in New York and throughout New England.
St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Manhattan)
(The present limestone Romanesque building, the third on t...)
Cathedral of All Saints (Albany, New York)
(It is the central church of the Albany and the seat of th...)
restoration of St. Paul's Cathedral (Buffalo, New York)
(originally designed by the late Richard Upjohn and built ...)