Price, Bruce, 1845-1903

Bruce Price; 12 December 1845, Cumberland, MD – 29 May 1903, Paris, France; studied for a short time at Princeton University; internship at Baltimore architects Niernsee & Neilson (1864–68); began his professional work in Baltimore with Ephraim Francis Baldwin; opened an office in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he practiced from 1873 to 1876; settled in New York City in 1877; design and layout of the exclusive 7,000-acre planned community of Tuxedo Park (1885–86), created by Pierre Lorillard IV; striking buildings Price designed there, with their severe geometry, compact massing and axial plans, were highly influential in the architectural profession; designed were the American Surety Building, the St. James Building, the Bank of the Metropolis and the International Bank (all in Manhattan); invented, patented, and built the parlor bay-window cars for the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Boston and Albany Railroad; designed the Château Frontenac in Quebec City; Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, and many other hotels and stations; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (1890) and belonged to the Architectural League of New York; 1900, he entered into a partnership with French architect Jules Henri de Sibour; named "Bruce Price & de Sibour"; married Josephine Lee (1871), two children: Emily Price Post, and son William who died in infancy;