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
Arthur Gilbert (real estate developer) Arthur Gilbert (real estate developer) Sir Arthur Gilbert (born Abraham Bernstein; May 16, 1913 – September 2, 2001) was a British-born American real estate developer, art collector and philanthropist. Arthur Gilbert was born as Abraham Bernstein on May 16, 1913 in Hackney, London. He grew up in Golders Green, London. His father was Lazarus Bernstein, a furrier, and his mother was named Bella. His parents were Jewish Polish immigrants who had moved to London in 1897, and they also owned land and built a house in Rishon LeZion. He and his parents attended the dedication ceremony of the Hebrew University