Henry Hornbostel

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Henry Hornbostel (1867 - 1961) was an American architect.

He designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and monuments in the United States; currently 22 are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Born in Brooklyn, New York he graduated in 1891 from Columbia University and also studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. He was a partner, over his career, in the New York firms of Howell, Stokes & Hornbostel; Wood, Palmer & Hornbostel; Palmer & Hornbostel; and Palmer, Hornbostel & Jones. He also practiced independently from a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office.

Nearly half of his works (110) were in Pittsburgh, an industrial boomtown in the early twentieth century, where in 1904 he won the campus design competition for Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Technical Schools (today's Carnegie Mellon University). He also helped to establish CMU's School of Architecture that same year. Among his other landmark Pittsburgh buildings are Rodef Shalom Temple (1904), the Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial (1907), and the City-County Building (1915-1917, with Edward B. Lee).

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Kidney, Walter C. (2002). Henry Hornbostel: An Architect's Master Touch. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation & Roberts Rinehart Publishers. ISBN 1-57098-398-4.
Patricia Lowry (2002). New book assesses Henry Hornbostel's influence on Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved April 26, 2006.