Grad Associates
{{Short description|Architectural firm}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{Other uses|Grad (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox company
|name = Grad Associates
|logo = Grad associates.gif
|logo_size = 150px
|type = Private
|founder = Frank Grad
|foundation = {{Start date|1906}}
|defunct = {{End date|2010|02|19}}
|industry = Architectural services
|hq_location = Newark, New Jersey
}}
Grad Associates, formerly Grad Partnership and Frank Grad & Sons, was an architectural firm based in Newark, New Jersey. Founded in 1906 by Frank Grad (1882–1968),{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5311/is_200611/ai_n21401135/ |title=GRAD Associates Celebrates 100 Years | New Jersey Business | Find Articles at BNET |publisher=Findarticles.com |access-date=2010-02-27 | year=2006}} the company was later run by his sons, Bernard (d. August 4, 2000){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/07/classified/paid-notice-deaths-grad-bernard-john.html |title=Paid Notice - Deaths GRAD, BERNARD JOHN - Paid Death Notice |work=NYTimes.com |date=2000-08-07 |access-date=2010-02-27}} and Howard (d. 1992).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/02/obituaries/howard-grad-dies-an-ex-engineer-79.html |title=Howard Grad Dies - An Ex-Engineer, 79 - Obituary; Biography |work=NYTimes.com |date=1992-12-02 |access-date=2010-02-27}} The company closed its doors on February 19, 2010.[http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/architectural_firm_that_helped.html Architectural firm that shaped Newark, N.Y.C. skylines closes after 104 years | NJ.com]
Born in Austria, Frank Grad was educated at the Newark Arts School (the forerunner of Arts High School). He began his Newark architectural practice in 1906. Grad was capable of working in many styles, from the Beaux-Arts, YMHA on MLK Boulevard, to the Spanish colonial Stanley Theater and Beth Israel Hospital, to the Neo-Classical Newark Symphony Hall, to the Art Deco 1180 Raymond Boulevard (aka, the Lefcourt Building). Several of Grad's greatest commissions, the YMHA, the Stanley Theater, Beth Israel, and the Lefcourt Building, were for Jewish patrons. In the mid-1930s the name of the firm became Frank Grad & Sons. Grad died in 1968.{{cite web|url=http://www.newarkhistory.com/ohebshalomcemetery.html |title=Oheb Shalom Cemetery |publisher=Newarkhistory.com |date=2002-08-08 |access-date=2010-09-07}}
His firm, Grad Associates was continued by his sons after Grad died. Grad Associates peaked in the 1980s when there were over 130 architects working there, but closed in the winter of 2010, a victim of the Great Recession. The firm added new partners in 1966, and became the Grad Partnership. In 1990, the firm became GRAD Associates, P.A.{{cite web|url=http://www.newarkhistory.com/ohebshalomcemetery.html |title=Oheb Shalom Cemetery |publisher=Newarkhistory.com |date=2002-08-08 |access-date=2010-09-07}} At the time the firm closed the managing partners were Allen Trousdale and Vasant Kshirsagar. Grad was one of the first large firms in the New York region to invest in extensive computer-aided design facilities.
Notable buildings
- Izod Center including the Pegasus Restaurant
- Harborside Financial Center{{cite news|last=Depalma |first=Anthony |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/11/realestate/region-new-jersey-office-tower-hudson-vies-for-title-state-s-tallest.html |title=IN THE REGION; New Jersey: Office Tower on the Hudson Vies For Title of the State's Tallest - New York Times |work=Nytimes.com |date=1986-05-11 |access-date=2010-02-27}}
- Seton Hall University School of Law at One Newark Center{{cite web|url=http://www.shorepointarch.com/About%20SPA.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110716062649/http://www.shorepointarch.com/About%20SPA.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-07-16 |title=ABOUT |publisher=Shorepointarch.com |access-date=2010-02-27 }}
- Newark Legal Center{{cite news|last=Kennedy |first=Shawn G. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/31/business/real-estate-an-addition-to-newark-s-downtown.html |title=Real Estate - An Addition To Newark's Downtown |work=NYTimes.com |date=1990-01-31 |access-date=2010-02-27}}
- Newark Liberty International Airport Continental Airlines Terminal and Atlantic City International Airport{{cite web |url=http://www.aertc.org/conference/btrousdale.asp |title=Welcome to the AERTC Conference |publisher=Aertc.org |access-date=2010-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724224918/http://www.aertc.org/conference/btrousdale.asp |archive-date=2011-07-24 |url-status=dead }}
- 1180 Raymond Boulevard, originally the Lefcourt Building{{cite web|url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=835 |title=1180 Raymond Boulevard, Newark |publisher=SkyscraperPage.com |access-date=2010-02-27}}
- One Newark Center
- University Heights, Newark, New Jersey
- James V. Forrestal Building in Washington, D.C.
- Stanley Theater/Newark Gospel Tabernacle {{cite web|url=http://www.newarkhistory.com/newarktabernacle.html|title=Stanley Theater/Newark Gospel Tabernacle|author=Bennett, Jeffrey}}
- Essex House New York on Central Park
- General Electric Regional Distribution Center, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey{{cite web|url=http://www.eda-pc.com/pcop.doc|title=Private, Corporate, and Office Projects|access-date=2010-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710170042/http://www.eda-pc.com/pcop.doc|archive-date=2011-07-10|url-status=dead}}
- General Public Utilities, Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey
- Howard Savings Bank Office Complex, Livingston, New Jersey
- Mt. Airy Associates I, II, III, IV, V Bernards Township, New Jersey
- Nabisco World Headquarters - Planting, Livingston, New Jersey
- Newark Symphony Hall
- New Jersey Bell Corporate Data Center II, Freehold, New Jersey
- New Jersey State Capitol Cultural Complex (New Jersey State Museum, Auditorium and Planetarium; New Jersey State Library)
- Overlook Farms, Readington Township, New Jersey
- Park 80 Addition, Saddlebrook, New Jersey
- Prudential Eastern Home Office, Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey
- Prudential Property & Casualty Insurance Co, Holmdel Township, New Jersey
- Prudential Supply Processing Center, New Providence, New Jersey
- Rockaway Farms, Tewksbury Township, New Jersey{{cite web|url=http://www.eda-pc.com/hotels.html|title=Environmental Design Associates PC - Hotels and Conference Centers|access-date=2010-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710170102/http://www.eda-pc.com/hotels.html|archive-date=2011-07-10|url-status=dead}}
- Springfield Farms, Tewksbury Township, New Jersey
- Two University Plaza, Hackensack, New Jersey
- Windemere at Hanover, Hanover Township, New Jersey
- Xerox Corporation - Parking, Webster, New York
- Essex County College - Newark, New Jersey{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/22/archives/essex-college-breaks-ground-for-new-buildings.html|title = Essex College Breaks Ground for New Buildings|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 22 June 1972}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Cite web|url=http://www.greatbuildings.com/wiki/GRAD_Associates,_PA,_Newark,_New_Jersey,_USA|title=GRAD Associates, PA, Newark, New Jersey, USA - Archiplanet|publisher=greatbuildings.com}}
- {{Cite web|url=http://www.architectureweek.com/directory/firms.cgi?11698|title=GRAD Associates, PA|access-date=2010-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605050838/http://www.architectureweek.com/directory/firms.cgi?11698|archive-date=2011-06-05|url-status=dead}}
- {{Cite book|last=Grad|first=Bernard|title=Adventure into Architecture|publisher=Arco Publishing Company|year=1968|pages=[https://archive.org/details/adventureintoarc0000grad/page/189 189]|isbn=0-668-01763-5|url=https://archive.org/details/adventureintoarc0000grad/page/189}}
Category:Architecture firms of the United States
Category:Architecture firms based in New Jersey
Category:Defunct architecture firms based in New Jersey
Category:Design companies established in 1906
Category:Companies based in Newark, New Jersey
Category:1906 establishments in New Jersey