Background
William Stone Post was born in 1866 in New York, United States.
William Stone Post was born in 1866 in New York, United States.
He was educated at St. Mark's School in Southboro, Mass., and Columbia University. At the age of twenty he began architectural study at Columbia’s old School of Mines, and after graduating in 1890 with a B. S. degree, spent a year abroad in travel and supplementary training.
Starting his career in the office of his father, the young man assisted in designing a number of important buildings, including the New York City College and Stock Exchange, Prudential Insurance Building, Newark, N. J. and later the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. In 1904 he and a younger brother J. Otis Post were taken into the firm as equal partners, and prior to the elder architect's decease in 1913, William had much to do with the design of the Sinai Hospital and the Statler Hotel in Cleveland, as well as other large structures. In subsequent years he was largely responsible for the firm’s continued success in hotel work, with the Statler's in St. Louis, Buffalo and Boston, the Roosevelt in New York, the Olympia in Seattle, and the Wade Park Manor in Cleveland among the notable achievements of the firm.
A member of the New York Chapter, A. I. A. after 1901 and elected to Institute Fellowship in 1907, Mr. Post concluded his successful career in 1930.