17 Facts About Bertram Goodhue

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was an American architect celebrated for his work in Gothic Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival design.

Bertram Goodhue designed notable typefaces, including Cheltenham and Merrymount for the Merrymount Press.

Later in life, Goodhue freed his architectural style with works like El Fureidis in Montecito, California, one of three estates he designed.

Bertram Goodhue's apprenticeship ended in 1891 when he won a design competition for St Matthew's in Dallas.

The multitalented Bertram Goodhue was a student of book design and type design.

In 1904, Bertram Goodhue built a townhouse at 106 East 74th Street, pushing the front to the building line and redesigning it in a mix of Gothic and Tudor styles.

In 1915, Bertram Goodhue accepted membership to what is known now as the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In 1917, Bertram Goodhue was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1923.

When Bertram Goodhue left to begin his own practice in 1914, Cram had already created his dreamed-of Gothic Revival commission at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City, and continued to work in the Gothic style mode for the rest of his career.

Bertram Goodhue departed into a series of radically different stylistic experiments over his independent career.

Bertram Goodhue's first was the Byzantine Revival style for St Bartholomew's Episcopal Church on New York City's Park Avenue, built on a new platform just above the Grand Central Terminal railyards.

In California, in 1915, Bertram Goodhue re-interpreted masterful Spanish Baroque and Spanish Colonial architecture complete with the latter's traditional Churrigueresque detailing into what became known as the Spanish Colonial Revival Style of architecture.

Bertram Goodhue was the lead architect, taking over from Irving Gill, with Carleton Winslow Sr.

Bertram Goodhue was interred within a wall vault in the north transept of his Church of the Intercession, at his request in the building he considered his finest.

Architectural sculptor Lee Lawrie created a Gothic styled tomb for him there, featuring Bertram Goodhue recumbent, crowned by a carved halo of some of his buildings.

Bertram Goodhue's offices had employed before they established their own independent practices and reputations, designers and architects such as Raymond Hood, Carleton Winslow Sr.

Bertram Goodhue directly influenced the dominance of the Spanish Colonial Revival style in major public and private architecture of 1920s Hawaii.