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Gilbert (CASS an American architect)

CASS, an American architect, born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1859. He was educated in the public schools at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began the study of architecture in 1876. Among the notable buildings which he designed are the Capitol of Minnesota at St. Paul; the Essex County court house at Newark, N. J.; the Agricultural Building at the Omaha Exposition; the Woolworth Building and the Custom House, New York; the Central Public Library at St. Louis; the Detroit Public Library; the New Haven Public Library; the Capitol of Arkansas, at Little Rock. He was appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of the Council of the Fine Arts, and was reappointed by Presidents Taft and Wilson. He was a member of the National Jury of Architecture at the Paris Exposition, and was a founder of the Architectural League of New York. He was also a member of many American and foreign architectural and art societies.