Bruce Price

Bruce Price, during the quarter of a century that he practised the profession of architecture in the city of New York, achieved a brilliant reputation. Born in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1845, he studied in Baltimore and four years in Europe, and after a few years in Baltimore, and, subsequently in Wilkesbarre, Pa., established himself, in this city in 1877. His first notable work was the Long Beach Hotel on the Beach of Long Island and in the first two-score buildings and the Gateway, at Tuxedo Park. Later he designed the famous Chateau Frontenac, at Quebec, the Canadian Pacific Terminal Building at Montreal, several of the buildings for Yale University, Judge Russell’s home at Southampton, and Georgian Court, the residence of Mr. George Gould at Lakewood. In this city he was the architect of the Hunt Memorial in the Fifth Avenue wall of the Central Park, the American Surety Building, the St. James Building, the Century Building in lower Broadway, and the buildings of the International Bank and the Bank of the Metropolis. His skill and attainments were cordially recognized in the professional press of France, Belgium, and Germany as well as in this country. To all his work, varied as it was in purpose and extensive in scope, he gave the impress of a strongly individual mind, which made up for certain defects of earlier years by intense study of the problems presented. He was at different times President of the Architectural League and of the Municipal Art Society, while his social activity was shown in his membership of a dozen clubs, besides the Century, in this and other cities. He had a rare gift for inspiring devoted co-operation and service, which he repaid with unquestioning loyalty.

Edward Cary
1904 Century Association Yearbook