George H. Gray (1874-1945)

Name

Gray, George H.

Personal Information

Birth/Death:    b. 1874 - d. 19 October 1945
Occupation:    American architect
Location:    Louisville, KY; New Haven, CT; New York, NY

AIA Affiliation

Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1914-decease
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) 1943

Biographical Sources

Biographical Directories:
Entry in Henry F. Withey, A.I.A., and Elsie Rathburn Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) (Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company, 1956. Facsimile edition, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970)

Biographical Information: Contributed by the Filson Historical Society: George H. Gray, architect, was born in California, graduated from Johns Hopkins University (1895) and attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts (1901-05). He began practicing in Louisville about 1907 and was later in partnership with Hermann Wischmeyer. He moved to New Haven, Conn. and practiced there for several years.

Related Records

Partner of Hermann Wischmeyer

Archival Holdings

The American Institute of Architects Archives
      Membership file contains membership application, Fellowship nomination, correspondence about AIA and professional activities.

The Filson Historical Society, Special Collections
      Mss. AR G779 Gray, George Herbert (1874-1945) Architectural Drawings, 1905-1919
Collection includes Gray's architectural drawings created while working at Louisville-based architectural firms Gray & Hawes and Gray & Wischmeyer as well as under his own name. Types of architectural drawings include blueprints, drafting linen sets, and pencil on trace paper for residential, ecclesiastical, and educational buildings as well as landscape studies and designs including Olmstead Brothers Landscape Architecture Firm drawings for the Belknap estate in Louisville, Ky. The collection includes drawings for Lincliff, The Midlands, Oxmoor, Bethlehem Evangelical Church, Church of Our Merciful Savior, Kentucky Child Welfare Exhibit, Parkland School, Pershing Stadium (in Paris, France), St. George's Mission, St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, Wyoming and Navarre Reality Co. See finding aid for more complete list of projects.
Link to online finding aid: http://filsonhistorical.org/research-doc/graygeorgeherbert

The Filson Historical Society, Special Collections
      Mss. AR G779a Gray, George Herbert (1874-1945) Additional architectural drawings, 1908-1928
Collection includes Gray's architectural drawings created while working at Louisville-based architectural firms Gray & Hawes, Gray & Wischmeyer and as under his own name both in Louisville as well as in New Haven, Connecticut. A collaboration with a Lawrence (first name unknown) is seen in one residential plan (Rye, NY; home of Col. Jason Joy). Another collaboration is with Gray's (assumed) brother Albert Morton Gray on the Forbes Hawkes, M. D. project. Types of architectural drawings include blueprints, drafting linen (waxed and heavy paper) sets, and pencil on trace paper for projects ranging from: residential, ecclesiastical, mixed use (residential and commercial), medical, and educational. A small amount of landscape drawings are also included in this collection. See finding aid for more complete list of projects.
Link to online finding aid: http://filsonhistorical.org/research-doc/gray-george-herbert-1874-1945-additional-architectural-drawings-1908-1928

The Filson Historical Society, Special Collections
      PC7.0109 Gray, George Herbert Photograph Collection
105 items, c1910-1930
The collection contains photographs of houses, churches, commercial buildings, and apartment buildings designed by Gray. Included are houses for Mrs. M. E. A. Dudley, Lewis C. Humphrey, William Ruedeman (1914), Dan Schlegel, J. Morton Morris , C. Bonnycastle Robinson (1916), all in Louisville. Churches pictured include Christ Church, Bowling Green, Ky., Church of our Merciful Saviour, Fourth Avenue Presbyterian, and Fourth Avenue Baptist in Louisville. There are photographs of the Aragon and Pennington apartment buildings in Louisville. The Forbes Hawkes house on Long Island, N.Y, the Arthur B. Clark house, New Haven, Conn., and Gray's own residences in New Haven and Louisville are also in the collection.

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