Notable for his pioneering introduction of New York's first all-metal internal structural skeleton in the New York Product Exchange, 1884), architect George Post is associated with the earliest elevator buildings and the developing of the New York skyscraper. An 1858 graduate of the Scientific School of New York University, Post studied with Richard Morris Hunt. He began professional practice in 1865 after serving in the Union army. Among his principal buildings were the Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion, 1881; the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building of the Worlds's Columbian Exposition, 1893; the New York Stock Exchange, 1903; and the Wisconsin State Capitol Building, completed in 1917 after his death.
Post's first--and already overdue--ANA diploma portrait, also by Blashfield, was accepted by the Council on April 6, 1908. Over a year later, it was exchanged for a second, the portrait now in the NAD collection.
