https://dana-legacy.njit.edu/files/original/b05e1c4b921c07cfe5b9db50d6209414.jpg 9ff908aa4aa67de445c46588c14fe2fd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Architects/Architectural Firms Subject The topic of the resource architects architectural firms Person An individual. Birth Date 1869 Birthplace Chicago Death Date 1916 Occupation architect Biographical Text Ernest Foss Guilbert was the supervising architect of the Board of Education beginning in 1908, and a member of the firm of Guilbert & Betelle. In 1890, he went to Boston and worked with H. H. Richardson who was, at the time, designing Trinity Church. Upon his return to Chicago in 1891, he worked with Henry Ives Cobb on several of the World’s Fair buildings. He also worked in Minnesota, and soon after moving to New York in 189,9 took charge of Cass Gilbert’s office. While there he directed the preparation of the drawings for such buildings as the Union Club, United States Customs House in New York, and the Essex County Court House and the American Fire Life Insurance building in Newark. He later became manager of the office of John Russell Pope. In 1908, he was appointed the architect of the Newark Board of Education. In 1905 (1910?) he formed a partnership with James Oscar Betelle (d.1954), his associate in the New York office of Cass Gilbert and John Pope. The firm specialized in school buildings. Guilbert also taught at the Teachers College at Columbia University and was a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Bibliography <ul><li>"<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/127681" target="_blank">Ernset Foss Guilbert</a>" in Philadelphia Buildings and Architects</li> <li>Gilbert, Cass and Heilbrun, Margaret. Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert. New-York Historical Society. Columbia University Press, 2000.</li> <li>Turner, Jean-Rae and Koles, Richard T. Newark, New Jersey. Arcadia Publishing, 2001</li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ernst F. Guilbert Subject The topic of the resource architects Relation A related resource Gilbert designed in Newark: Central King Bldg, 1914 Cleveland School, c. 1913 Home of Ernest F. Guilbert, c. 1910 Newark Normal School, c. 1913 (Currently Technology High School) Ridge Street School, c. 1913 East Side High School, c. 1911 Robert Treat Hotel, c. 1916 South Side High School, c. 1913 (Currently Malcolm X Shabazz High School) architects