Architect
Centurion, 1916–1935
Born 8 April 1880 in New York (Brooklyn), New York
Died 10 September 1935 in Lake George, New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Alfred D. F. Hamlin and Edwin H. Blashfield
Elected 6 May 1916 at age thirty-six
Century Memorial
Charles S. Peabody was one of the ready talkers of the Club; companionable, sanguine, always alert to seize upon new points of view in his conversation. Something of this imaginative spirit infused itself into his architectural achievement. With his partner [William Orr Ludlow], Peabody designed such distinctive edifices as the forty-eight-story Chase Tower on East Fortieth Street, the New York Times Annex on West 43rd Street, the Johns-Manville Building on East Fortieth Street—not to mention a long list of temples, churches and college buildings throughout the Eastern United States. He was one of the architects, among whom our fellow-members Gilbert and York were notable, who solved the artistic problem, deemed impossible in New York of the Nineties—the problem of making the “sky-scraper,” into whose construction engineering invention rushed, a thing of beauty.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1936 Century Association Yearbook
