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Cass Gilbert (November 24, 1859 – May 17, 1934) was an American architect. [1] [2] [3] [4] An early proponent of skyscrapers, his works include the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court building, the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas, and West Virginia, the Detroit Public Library, the Saint Louis Art Museum and ...
Cass Gilbert (born November 24, 1859, Zanesville, Ohio, U.S.—died May 17, 1934, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England) was an architect, designer of the Woolworth Building (1908–13) in New York City and of the United States Supreme Court Building (completed 1935) in Washington, D.C. Conscientious and prosperous, he was an acknowledged leader of the a...
Cass Gilbert was born in Zanesville, Ohio on November 24, 1859. His parents were Samuel Gilbert and Elizabeth Wheeler Gilbert. He was named for a very prominent uncle, U.S. Senator Lewis Cass. In 1868, when Cass was nine years old the family left Ohio to join his father, who was working as a surveyor in St. Paul, Minnesota.
May 11, 2018 · Cass Gilbert was the U.S. architect responsible for the traditional style and regal proportions seen in many of the nation's finest public buildings—including the Supreme Court Building, in Washington, D.C.
Woolworth hired the architect Cass Gilbert, then known primarily for his Beaux-Arts style civic buildings and art museums, to turn this dream into reality. World’s Tallest Woolworth Building under construction, 1912 (photo: Bain News Service , Library of Congress)
Dec 27, 2018 · The Supreme Court building was the last project in the career of architect Cass Gilbert, who died in 1934, one year before the iconic structure was completed. The highest court of the United States was completed by members of Gilbert's firm — and under budget by $94,000.
Feb 17, 2014 · Cass Gilbert, selected as the architect, believed the designer should “weave into the pattern of our own civilization the beauty that is our inheritance.” [1] An ornate monument to the growing...
Jan 31, 2001 · The architect Cass Gilbert wrote these words to his colleague Ralph Adams Cram in 1920 about the building that is generally considered to be his masterpiece.
Along with Henry Bacon, Charles A. Platt, and John Russell Pope, Gilbert was a leading practitioner of neoclassical architecture, the idiom of the "American Renaissance" that dominated taste in public places during the decades following the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
The Architect: Cass Gilbert. Cass Gilbert respected the authority of tradition-his education and appreciation of architecture was grounded in historical models-but his romantic imagination made him receptive to the skyscraper as a new and experimental building type.
