Albert Wagner (architect)

{{Short description|German-American architect (1848–1898)}}

{{Infobox architect

| name = Albert Wagner

| practice =

| significant_buildings = Puck Building

| significant_projects =

| birth_place = Poessneck, Germany

| birth_date = {{birth date|1848|03|14}}

| alma_mater = Polytechnic of Stuffgart and Munich Academy

| death_date = {{death date|1898|08|24|1848|03|14}}

| death_place = New York

| image = Albert Wagner.jpg

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Albert Wagner (March 14, 1848 – August 24, 1898) was an architect from Germany who worked in New York City. Born in Poessneck, Germany, he moved to New York in 1871.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=luA-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA461|title=The National Cyclopedia of American Biography|last1=Derby|first1=George|last2=White|first2=James Terry|date=1896|publisher=James T White * Company|isbn=|volume=VI|location=|pages=461|language=en}} He designed the Puck Building, expanded years later according to designs by his relative Herman Wagner. The building housed Puck magazine. Wagner also designed 140 Franklin Street (1887), a building later converted to lofts, and 134–136 Spring Street, where clothing businesses were housed.{{Cite web|url=http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2017/04/albert-wagners-134-136-spring-street.html|title=Daytonian in Manhattan: Albert Wagner's 134–136 Spring Street|first=Tom|last=Miller|date=April 21, 2017}} He used terra cotta, Romanesque style stone and brickwork, and ornate ironwork in his buildings.

Wagner's office was at 67 University Place.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1gz9QiGp_kC&q=albert+wagner+67+university&pg=RA6-PA69|title=New York Supreme Court Case on Appeal Mary Braine Against Julie Rosswog|date=September 15, 1896|via=Google Books}} He had a son named Frederick Lewis Wagner.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zBjsTxHZIOwC&q=%22albert+wagner%22+architect|title=The Iron Age|date=September 15, 1911|publisher=Chilton Company|via=Google Books}} Wagner died in on August 24, 1898 in New York.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-41AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA289|title=Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer|last1=Meyer|first1=Henry Coddington|last2=Wingate|first2=Charles Frederick|date=June–November 1898|publisher=McGraw Publishing Company|isbn=|volume=XXXVIII|pages=289|language=en}}