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Nationality
  
USA

Education
  
Royal Academy of Arts

Role
  
Architect


Name
  
Robert Gibson

Known for
  
Architect

Books
  
The morality of nature


Born
  
November 17, 1854
Essex, England

Died
  
August 17, 1927, Woodbury, New York, United States

People also search for
  
C. P. H. Gilbert, Morton Freeman Plant, Richard Upjohn, Charles Coker Wilson

Structures
  
Morton F Plant House, West End Collegiate Church, St Michael's Church, Cathedral of All Saints, Notleymere

Farewell message from Robert W Gibson CMG


Robert W. Gibson, AIA, (1854 in England – 1927 in New York City) was an English-born American ecclesiastical architect active in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New York City and New York State. He designed several large Manhattan churches and a number of prominent residences and institutional buildings.

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Gibson studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. He won a competition to design All Saints Cathedral (Albany, New York).

Works

  • 1885 Notleymere, Cazenovia (town), New York
  • 1888 All Saints Cathedral (Albany, New York)
  • 1888 (remodeling) St. Paul's Cathedral (Buffalo, New York)
  • 1889-1890 St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Olean, New York)
  • 1890 St. Michael's Episcopal Church (New York City)
  • 1892 Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
  • 1890-92 Music Hall (Sailors' Snug Harbor), Staten Island
  • 1890-93, Randall Memorial Church (Sailors' Snug Harbor), Staten Island, demolished 1952.
  • 1905 Morton F. Plant House, 651 Fifth Avenue, New York, with C.P.H. Gilbert. Since 1917, this has been Cartier's Flagship Store.
  • Personal

    Gibson married in 1890 to Caroline J. Hammond. They had four children: three daughters and a son.

    References

    Robert W. Gibson Wikipedia