Charles Alling Gifford

Charles Alling Gifford

Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect and a partner at the New York firm Gifford & Bates. Gifford was born in New Jersey and studied at the Stevens Institute of Technology, which focuses on mechanical engineering.^[1]

His most well-known work is the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, designed for Joseph Stickney.^{[2] [3]} The 1902 Gilded Age hotel is a National Historic Landmark.^[4]

Additionally, a few structures in the Jekyll Island National Historic Landmark District were designed by Gifford, including the Sans Souci Apartments (1896), Mistletoe Cottage (1900), and Jekyll Island Clubhouse Annex (1901).^[5]

Projects

• Trenton Armory, New Jersey
• Camden Armory, New Jersey
• Rutger's Gymnasium and Armory, or Ballentine Gymnasium, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1894.
• Conyngham Manor, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1897.
• Conyngham Stable, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1898.
• 146 East 56th Street, New York, New York, 1905. Constructed as a private stable for Edwin Gould, in a neo-Georgian style.
• Brunswick Courthouse or "Old Glynn County Courthouse", Glynn County, Georgia. The courthouse cornerstone was laid on December 27, 1906 and construction was completed on December 18, 1907 at a total cost of $97,613. Restoration work began in the early 1990s.

References

1. 25 Herman W Knox., ed. Who’s Who in New York. Seventh Edition (1917-1918). (NY: Who’s Who Publications, Inc., 1918): 414.
2. Schellenbaum, Amy. "The Extraordinary History of 1902's Mount Washington Hotel ... and the 'Poor Fool' Who Built It". Curbed. Retrieved 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
3. Mount Washington Hotel to be sold The Lewiston Journal - May 20, 1988
4. "Mount Washington Hotel". National Park Service.
5. Brunswick: The City by the Sea by Patricia Barefoot page 48