S. B. P. Trowbridge

Full Name: Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge

Architect

Centurion, 1895–1925

Proposed by
George B. Post, J. Howard Van Amringe, and Frank Dempster Sherman

born May 20, 1862
New York (Manhattan), New York

died January 29, 1925
New York (Manhattan), New York

elected December 7, 1895
Age thirty-three

buried Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York

proposer of

seconder of

Member portrait of S. B. P. Trowbridge — Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 10, Leaf 29

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Century Memorial

S. Breck Parkman Trowbridge was of the stuff from which good Centurions are made. From the long-distant days of his work at the American School in Athens, through those of his active achievement as a busy architect, he strove unceasingly for the cultivation of his own mind and for the advancement of art in his country. His New York buildings, the Phipps House, the Morgan offices, Altman’s, the Bankers Trust Company, show his rank. Long a valuable participant in the labors of the American Institute of Architects, his later years were given with ardent and unflagging devotion to the service of the American Academy in Rome, of which he was Vice President. The Academy appealed infallibly to every instinct of Breck Trowbridge’s heart; to his love of culture and the humanities, to his sure belief in the classic tradition as the one sure basis for whatever we may attain to in valid artistic freedom, to his contempt for superficial sloppiness.

To his intimates, Trowbridge was one of the most charming of companions, especially afield with rod or gun, by stream or covert, on wild rivers and lonely lakes of the wilderness, or beside the blaze of the camp fire.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1926 Century Association Yearbook

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