Henry Fernbach
{{Short description|American architect (1829–1883)}}
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Henry Fernbach (1829–1883){{cite web |title=Henry Fernbach |url=https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21385 |website=Philadelphia Buildings |accessdate=5 August 2018}} was an architect in New York City. Born in Breslau, which then belonged to Germany, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1848 or in 1855.
Life
Fernbach was a Prussian Jew,[http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/ARCH-Fernbach.htm Henry Fernbach] New York Architecture and trained at the Bauakademie in Berlin. He is noted for his synagogue designs, mainly in the Moorish Revival architecture style, and for his cast iron facades. Between 1867 and 1883 Fernbach designed more than two dozen of the properties now contributing to the SoHo - Cast Iron Historic District.{{cite web |title=NRHP Nomination Form, SoHo Cast Iron Historic District |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/52f78a70-a902-4b4d-a9ce-42aadcd5c4be |website=US Dept of Interior |accessdate=5 August 2018}}
He served as Treasurer of the United Association of American Architect. Alfred Zucker and Theodore de Lemos partnered with him. Paul J. Pelz worked as a chief draftsman for him. He designed the German Savings Bank with Edward H. Kendall.
Work
- First Jewish Orphan Asylum,Passikoff, Alexander G. (September 8, 2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ib41MyIrRoYC&dq=Henry+Fernbach&pg=PA83 A Façade of Buildings: A Collection of Architectural Styles, Architects, and Their Buildings That Make Up the Face of New York] pp. 82–83 East 77th Street near Third Avenue,[https://www.nytimes.com/1863/10/29/news/the-new-jewish-orphan-asylum.html The New Jewish Orphan Asylum] October 29, 1863 NYC (1863)
- original permanent location, Harmonie Club, 45 West Forty-Second Street, NYC (1867)
- entrance gate, Salem Fields Cemetery, 775 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn (1867)Bedoire, Fredric. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-QUKtom7AtkC&dq=Henry+Fernbach&pg=PA424 The Jewish Contribution to Modern Architecture, 1830-1930] pp. 425–426.
- Temple Emanu-El, 43rd Street and 5th Avenue, with architect Leopold Eidlitz (1868; razed 1927)[http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON025.htm Temple Emanu-El][http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON025.htm Temple Emanu-El image] NYC-architecture.com
- Central Synagogue, 652 Lexington Avenue, NYC (1870–72)
- 67, 69, 71, 75, 77, 81 Greene Street (1873)
- Victory Building, 1001-05 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1873–75){{cite web |title=New York Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, 1001-1005 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA |url=http://loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1022/ |website=Library of Congress |accessdate=5 August 2018}}
- Stern Brothers Department Store, 32-36 West 23rd Street, NYC, expanded in stages (1878, 1878, 1880)
- Eden Musée, 55 West 23rd Street, NYC (Fernbach died mid-project; completed by Theodore de Lemos) (1884)
- 113, 115 Spring Streets, lofts with Tuscan columns and cast iron frontsWhite, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MTJlkowOwA4C&dq=Henry+Fernbach&pg=PT368 AIA Guide to New York City].
- SoHo Hotel at 101-111 Greene Street (not the new buildings 101 and 107-11 by Joseph Pell Lombardi)
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Category:Architects from Wrocław
Category:German emigrants to the United States