Bruce Price

Bruce Price (12 December, 1845 – 29 May, 1903) was the architect of many of the Canadian Pacific Railway's Chateau-type stations and hotels. A fine example of his work for CP is Montreal's Windsor Station.

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12 December - 1845 - 29 May - 1903 - Architect - Canadian Pacific Railway - Stations - Hotel - Montreal - Windsor Station

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Born in Cumberland, Maryland, Bruce Price practiced briefly in Baltimore and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, before moving to New York in 1877. Price married Josephine Lee of Wilkes-Barre. His daughter Emily Price, who wrote under the pen name Emily Post, is the famous author of books on etiquette.

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Cumberland, Maryland - Baltimore - Wilkes-Barre - Pennsylvania - New York - 1877 - Emily Price - Pen name - Emily Post - Etiquette

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Early in his career, Price worked on a series of domestic projects which culminated in the design and layout of Tuxedo Park, a vacation community in New York. The Shingle style houses Price built at Tuxedo, with their compact massing and axial plans, influenced several young architects including Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Tuxedo Park - New York - Shingle style - Frank Lloyd Wright

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From http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Bruce_Price.html

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After four years of internship in the office of the Baltimore architects Niernsee & Neilson, Price set off to Europe. On his return in 1873, he began his professional work in Baltimore with Ephraim Francis Baldwin as a partner, before moving briefly to Wilkes-Barre. He eventually settled in New York (1877), where he designed many office buildings, among them the American Surety Building, St James Building, and the International Bank. One of the residential works which made him famous was the laying out of Georgian Court, the neo-Georgian residence of George Jay Gould I, esq, in Lakewood, New Jersey.

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Architect - Europe - 1873 - Ephraim Francis Baldwin - New York - 1877 - American Surety Building - St James Building - International Bank - Georgian Court - George Jay Gould I - Lakewood

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Price invented, patented, and built the parlor bay-window cars for the Pennsylvania Railroad and for the Boston and Albany. This is what prompted the Canadian Pacific railways to consider his portfolio,; for the railroad he designed the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec among many other hotels and stations; collaborated with sculptor Daniel Chester French on the Richard Morris Hunt Memorial (1898) set into the wall of New York's Central Park, and several memorial buildings at Yale University.

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Pennsylvania Railroad - Boston and Albany - Chateau Frontenac - Daniel Chester French - Richard Morris Hunt - 1898 - Central Park - Yale University

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He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (1890), and belonged to the Architectural League of New York as well.

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American Institute of Architects - 1890

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