American, 1887 - 1958
A specialist in the design of governmental buildings, William Gehron was graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburg in 1912 after which he studied in Europe. He then began his practice in New York with Arnold W. Brunner with whom he worked from 1918 to 1925. He then became a partner in the firm of Gehron and Ross in 1925, after which he operated independently. From 1952, he was a partner with Gilbert L. Seltzer in the firm of Gehron and Seltzer, New York.
Among Gehron's designs are a group of buildings for the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg; several buildings at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point; the Queens Borough Hall, New York; the East Coast War Memorial in Battery Park, New York; the campus of Denison University, Granville, Ohio; and the Harlem Hospital Dispensary, New York.
He was a member of the Century Association, the Architectural League of New York, the American Institute of Architects, the Beaux Arts Society, and the Asia Institute. He was a consultant architect to the Housing Division of the Federal Public Works Project, New York Area, from 1933 to 1936; and was a co-author of the four volume work on architecture, Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture which was edited by Talbot Hamlin and published by Columbia University Press.
Among Gehron's designs are a group of buildings for the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg; several buildings at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point; the Queens Borough Hall, New York; the East Coast War Memorial in Battery Park, New York; the campus of Denison University, Granville, Ohio; and the Harlem Hospital Dispensary, New York.
He was a member of the Century Association, the Architectural League of New York, the American Institute of Architects, the Beaux Arts Society, and the Asia Institute. He was a consultant architect to the Housing Division of the Federal Public Works Project, New York Area, from 1933 to 1936; and was a co-author of the four volume work on architecture, Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture which was edited by Talbot Hamlin and published by Columbia University Press.
