Architect
Centurion, 1895–1937
Born 9 September 1859 in Carlinville, Illinois
Died 5 May 1937 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium
, Middle Village, New York
Proposed by Richard Morris Hunt and William Robert Ware
Elected 2 March 1895 at age thirty-five
Century Memorial
The Century had long been familiar with the serious face and downright conversation of William Alciphron Boring. For many years, during which he was a constant visitor at 7 West 43rd Street, he was one of those personalities that seemed to belong to the Club. Boring was an architect of industry, taste and judgment. He had been member of the first United States Council of Fine Arts, President of the New York Architectural League and one of the founders of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design. Medals for achievement in his craft were showered on him by the Buffalo and St. Louis expositions and by the Paris exposition of 1900. But perhaps the distinction which meant most to Boring was his appointment in 1915 as Columbia’s professor of architecture and head of the architectural faculty. To the progress of that branch of collegiate education, he was in many respects the chief contributor.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1938 Century Association Yearbook
