Background
Walter Gieske was born in 1883 at Catonsville, near Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Walter Gieske was born in 1883 at Catonsville, near Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
He studied for a professional career at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and at Cornell’s Architectural School.
As a practicing architect Mr. Gieske maintained an office in the Gunther Building in Baltimore for many years and in that period planned several commercial and industrial buildings in the city, also remodelled the Metropolitan Club. In addition he was identified with a number of architectural projects in Catonsville, such as the High School, German Orphans’ Home, built in 1925, and alterations and additions to the Rolling Road Golf Club. One of his last important commissions, the State Sanitarium at Baltimore, was completed shortly before his death.