Henry Engelbert

Henry Engelbert (1826–1901) was a

Engelbert was born in Germany in 1826. In 1852, he established his practice in partnership with John Edson, and their office was at 85 Nassau Street in New York City.[1] The latter years of his career were spent in Detroit, where he died in 1901.^[2]

Notable buildings: New York City

In chronological order:

• Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, 1856, since demolished. The architects of this church are given as "Edson and Engelbert",^[3] referring to John Edson, Engelbert's office partner.
• College of Mount Saint Vincent
  Administration Building (originally Convent and Academy of Mount Saint Vincent), 1859, 6301 Riverdale Avenue at West 263rd Street.
• Church of Our Lady of Sorrows (now Mision Guadalupana), 1867–1868, 101-103 Pitt Street at Stanton Street.

• French Second Empire style for carpet magnate Elias S. Higgins, who later commissioned Engelbert to design the Grand Central Hotel
  .
• St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
  on Fifth Avenue.
• Church of the Transfiguration (formerly Zion English Lutheran Church), 1868 renovations to the original 1801 structure, 25 Mott Street. This church has a Georgian Gothic style.^[4]
  Engelbert was responsible for 1868 renovations, principally the addition of the current bell tower. This structure should not be confused with the Episcopal church of the same name on East 29th Street.
• Elias S. Higgins Warehouse and Store, (1868–1869): 424-426 Broadway. This six-story building has a cast iron facade and was designed in a
  French Second Empire style for carpet manufacturer Elias S. Higgins.^[5]
  This is one of three buildings that Higgins commissioned Engelbert to design. The building has been converted into residential lofts.
• Chelsea neighborhood of the city after the Civil War
  in order to follow its congregants. The church closed in 2013, and the building is currently not in use.
• army chaplain of World War I
  .
• Grand Central Hotel (later Broadway Central Hotel) (1870), 673 Broadway. This was the second commission for a hotel that Engelbert received from carpet magnate Elias S. Higgins, and in many ways it is a larger, more flamboyant version of Engelbert's 1868 Grand Hotel further north on Broadway. In 1973 this hotel abruptly collapsed, killing four residents. It appears that the removal of load-bearing walls in the basement, as part of a remodeling project, led to the structure's collapse.
• Corinthian columns with Second French Empire
  elements.

Notable buildings: other locations

In chronological order:

• St. Mary's Abbey Church, 1856–1857, Martin Luther King Boulevard at William Street, Newark, New Jersey. Now known as Newark Abbey.
• Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church and Parsonage, 1874–1975, 72 Spring Street at Hone Street, Kingston, New York.^[6]
• Sampson-Freeman Building, 1875, 1 Broadway at West Strand, Kingston, New York. This three-story building originally consisted of a store on the ground floor, with an opera house on the upper floors. A mansard roof and tower were lost in an 1885 fire. However, cast iron pillars at the ground level have survived to the present day.^[7]
• Polish Gothic Revival.^[8]
• St. Mary of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church, 1892, 1035 West 32nd Street, Chicago, Illinois. This Romanesque church was built for the Polish Catholic community of Chicago's South Side.^[9]

References

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1. ^ Curran, Kathleen, "The German Rundbogenstil and Reflections on the American Round-Arched Style, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 47, No. 4 (December 1988), pp. 351-373. See footnote #41 within that article.
2. ^ "News of the architects: Buildings operations for February: Death of Henry Englebert (sic)". Detroit Free Press. 10 March 1901. p. 11. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
3. ^ Meeks, Carroll L. V., Romanesque Before Richardson in the United States, Art Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 1 (March, 1953), pp. 17-33. See page 31 of article.
4. ^ New York in Photos: Church of the Transfiguration [1] Accessed January 25, 2008
5. ^ "The Proposed Soho-Cast Iron Historic District Expansion (pages 7 and 28)" (PDF). Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America (New York, New York). March 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-23.
6. ^ Hudson River Maritime Museum: Rondout Historic District "Rondout Creek, NY, Historic District". Archived from the original on 2008-01-08. Retrieved 2008-01-25. Accessed January 25, 2008
7. ISBN 978-1-883789-35-0
   .
8. ^ Detroit: The History and Future of the Motor City: St. Albertus Roman Catholic Church, [2] Archived 2007-12-15 at the Wayback Machine Accessed January 25, 2008
9. ISBN 978-0-15-602908-7
   .