Background
William G. Kaelber was born in 1886 at Rochester, New York, United States.
(German United Evangelical Church Complex, also known as S...)
German United Evangelical Church Complex, also known as Salem Evangelical Church (1921), Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church (1943), and Salem United Church of Christ (1957), is a historic Evangelical and Reformed church complex located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York.
William G. Kaelber was born in 1886 at Rochester, New York, United States.
He received an early public school education, and began preparatory study in architecture at the Athenaeum and the Mechanics Institute.
At the age of fifteen he entered the office of Walker & Briggs as student draftsman; two years later found employment with the firm of Gordon & Madden, and from 1908 to 1921 was junior partner in the organization During ten succeeding years he practiced jointly with Edwin S. Gordon, and after the latter's death in 1932 carried on work under his own name (in the last phase of his career (1938-48)).
Active throughout a long career, Mr. Kaelber was identified with the design of the Eastman Theatre; Post Office Building; Rundel Memorial Building (Public Library); Museum of Arts and Sciences; College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester; entire group of buildings at Men’s College on the campus (one of Gordon & Kaelber's most important and interesting works); also the Cutler Union, Munro Hall and dormitories of the Women's College; Park Avenue Hospital and the General Hospital; and Office Building for the Rochester Gas & Electric Company. In addition Mr. Kaelber designed independently, or with his partners, a number of churches in the city, more than forty elementary schools, several High Schools, industrial plants, business and mercantile buildings.
An active member and past-president of the Central New York Chapter, A.I.A., Mr. Kaelber was also affiliated with the Rochester Society of Architects, and the New York State Association of Architects. He had served on the New York State Board of Architectural Examiners, Co-operating Committee of Architects, Department of Architecture at Syracuse University, and was a member of various other professional organizations.