Gamaliel King

Gamaliel King ( born December 1, 1795 Shelter Iceland, New York, † December 6, 1875 ) was an American architect who worked mainly in New York and Brooklyn.

Life

King was born in 1795 as son of Abraham King and Bethia Parshall King on Shelter Iceland. About his childhood today is as good as nothing more is known.

On 19 June 1819 he married Catherine Oliver Snow, daughter of John Snow and Catherine Oliver Snow from Brooklyn; with her he had five children, four of them reached adulthood.

Gamaliel King and Catherine are buried at Green-Wood Cemetery.

Career

Manhattan

King is best known for his designed buildings in Manhattan, most of which were taken during a partnership with John Kellum, another architect from New York. This was from 1846 to 1859, during this time was jointly designed by both Cary Building in New York.

The beginnings of his career as an architect in the 1820s in Brooklyn. In 1823 he was commissioned jointly with Joseph Moser, to build York Methodist Episcopal Church in New York, a year later it was completed.

After this rather large project, the two architects were still enlisted as a designer of an Italian "Friend 's Meeting " house in Gramercy Park.

Today, none of the buildings more, the King had built at the beginning of his career in Manhattan exists.

Brooklyn

As the largest work of both partners is to call the Brooklyn Borough Hall in Brooklyn. Originally, this was designed by Calvin Pollard, according to financial difficulties and the resulting freeze the work in 1845 but handed over to King and Kellum, because King had finished second behind Pollard in the selection for the design of the house in 1835.

King is also the architect of many churches in Brooklyn. In a later collaboration with William H. Willcox also he built the Kings County Savings Bank in Williamsburg.