William A. Boring

Full Name: William Alciphron Boring

Architect

Centurion, 1895–1937

Proposed by
Richard Morris Hunt and William Robert Ware

born September 9, 1859
Carlinville, Illinois

died May 5, 1937
New York (Manhattan), New York

elected March 2, 1895
Age thirty-five

buried Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium,
Middle Village, New York

proposer of

Member portrait of William A. Boring — Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 8, Leaf 9

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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

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