Cass Gilbert cladding a steel frame became the model for decades. Modernists embraced his work: John Marin painted it several times; even Frank Lloyd Wright praised the lines of the building, though he decried the ornamentation. Gilbert was one of the first celebrity architects in America, designing skyscrapers in New York City and Cincinnati, campus buildings at Oberlin College and the University of Texas at Austin, state capitols in Minnesota and West Virginia, the support towers of the George Washington Bridge, railroad stations (including the New Haven Union Station, 1920), and the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.. His reputation
Lewis Cass Ledyard Burlingham, Edward Julius Berwind, Morgan J. O'Brien, William Sloane Coffin Sr., Herbert Eustis Winlock, Arthur Curtiss James, Frank L. Polk, Cass Gilbert, Edwin H. Anderson, Harry M. Lydenberg, Keyes Metcalf, John G. Milburn, and Devereux Milburn. His estate was valued in excess of $10,000,000 upon his death. Through his son, he was the grandfather of Lewis Cass Ledyard III (1911–1990), Dorothy Cass Ledyard, who first married Hugh McLeod Fenwick (1905–1991) (he divorced her in 1931 to marry Millicent Vernon Hammond), and later, Richard Allen Knight (d. 1947), in 1933, and Ruth Emery Ledyard, who married William de Rham, a great-great