Arnold W. Brunner
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)Arnold W. Brunner | |
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| Born | September 25, 1857 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | February 14, 1925 (aged 67) New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Architect |
Arnold William Brunner (September 25, 1857 – February 14, 1925) was an American
Denver, Colorado, Trenton, New Jersey, and Albany, New York. Brunner was, for a short time, partnered with Thomas Tryon
as the firm Brunner & Tryon.
Notable works
Brunner designed several notable buildings including, with Tryon, the 1897
Central Park West, New York, to house the United States' oldest Jewish congregation, founded in 1654.[1] No attempt was made to convey an "eastern" vocabulary, as was often being done for other Jewish congregations: Brunner and Tryon provided a forthright Roman Baroque temple with a projecting three-bay center that contrasts with the windowless ashlar masonry flanking it and contains a recessed loggia
entrance under three large arch-headed windows, articulated by a colossal order of Corinthian columns surmounted by a pediment over a paneled attic frieze.
Another synagogue designed by Brunner was
120th Street, in 1907.[2]: 270 The limestone building was not designed in the typical Moorish Revival style of other synagogues of the time; Brunner argued that "synagogues have no traditional lines of architectural expression".[2]: 152 According to David W. Dunlap, the building "looks like a Roman temple until you notice the Stars of David in the column capitals, fanlights, and spandrel panels",[2]: 152 and "may rank as the single best Neoclassical synagogue in Manhattan".[2]
: 270
Students' Hall at Barnard College was built in 1916 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[3]
Brunner also designed improvements at the
City Beautiful" plan.[4] Other work in Ohio included the Monumental Bridge in Toledo and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He also won the competition for the design of the U.S. State Department Building in Washington D.C.[5]
Brunner designed a
Martin Luther King Bridge.[6]
Brunner's design introduced an innovative design for keeping streetcar power lines taut, yet allowing them to be safely raised with the bridge deck.[7]
Other lift bridges copied this innovation.
Gallery
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Central Park Westand 70th Street, New York (1897) -
Brunner's 1910 Federal Building in downtownCleveland, Ohio -
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ThePublic Baths (1904-1906) in Manhattan at Asser Levy Place and 23rd Street, designed by Brunner with Martin Aiken
References
Notes
- ^ Congregation Shearith Israel Archived February 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Building Report, International Survey of Jewish Monuments. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
- ^ ISBN 0-231-12543-7.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Cleveland.
- ^ "Arnold Brunner Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine," Brief Biographies of American Architects: Who Died Between 1897 and 1947, Society of Architectural Historians. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
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"The American city, Volume 11". American City Magazine Corporation. 1914. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
The Ohio bridge was designed by Arnold W. Brunner, architect, and Ralph Modjeski, consulting engineer.
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Electric railway journal, Volume 42. McGraw Hill. 1913. p. 967. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
A novel arrangement for taking up slack in the trolley wire over a bascule bridge when the span is raised has been installed by the Toledo Railways & Light Company on the Cherry Street bridge at ...
External links
- Jewish Encyclopedia: "Brunner, Arnold William" by Cyrus Adler (1906).
Media related to Arnold W. Brunner at Wikimedia Commons
