S. B. TROWBRIDGE

Background

S. B. Parkman Trowbridge was born in 1862 in New York, United States.

Education

He was educated in the city's public schools of New York and at Trinity College. Following graduation in 1886 after three years at Columbia’s School of Architecture he was sent by the Archaeological Institute to superintend erection of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, and on completion of the building, went to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beauux Arts.

Career

Following his return to New York in 1896, Mr. Trowbridge entered the office of George B. Post, and after five years of training and experience, began practice in association with Goodhue Livingston. In the following years the firm received many important commissions, the earliest of which was the B. Altman Store on Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, built in 1907, also during that year Trowbriidge & Livingston began work on the framework of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, damaged by fire in the 1906 disaster.

Among the firm’s executed designs in New York were the Bankers' Trust Company Building on Wall Street, 1913; Banking House of J. P. Morgan & Company; Chemical National Bank; 20-story addition to the Stock Exchange Building; St. Regis Hotel; Empire City Savings Bank; Buildings tor the American Museum of Natural History, and the Bank of America under construction at the time of Mr. Trowbridge's death. Plans for the new Equitable Trust Company Building were also in preparation, and the structure was later erected at Broad Street and Exchange Place.

Trowbridge & Livingston were also architects (prior to 1925) of important business and public buildings outside of New York, including the Mellon Nationai Bank in Pittsburgh, Pa.. 1924; the Mitsui Bank in Tokio, Japan, and the National Headquarters of the American Red Cross in Washington, U. G.. erected between 1915 and 1917.

Works

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• Other Work

  • Palace Hotel in San Francisco

    (damaged by fire in the 1906 disaster. (Trowbriidge & Livi...)

  • Chemical National Bank, New York

    (Trowbriidge & Livingston)

Membership

A man of scholady attainments, Mr. Trowbridge was one of the founders. Vice-president and Trustee of the American Academy at Rome, and a member ot the National Academy of Design, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History. Among the honorary and professional positions he held was that of Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects, and the New York Chapter, A.I.A., Chevalier of the French Leqion of Honor, and Honorary member of the British Institute of Archaeology.

Connections

employer:

George B. Post

Following his return to New York in 1896, Mr. Trowbridge entered the office of George B. Post.

coworker:

Goodhue Livingston

In 1901 Mr. Trowbridge began practice in association with Goodhue Livingston.