Gustave E. Steinback

Early life and career Steinback was sent to Germany for his elementary education. He later studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York City, and later received a B.S. from Columbia School of Architecture in New York City, class of 1900. After graduation, he traveled throughout Europe, spent three years in Germany, and one year in France working for Atelier Bernard.

He claimed at the end of his career to have started his practice in 1903 but this may have been a mistake, as he had earlier claimed 1904 as his first year.

Architectural practice After the partnership was dissolved, both men went on to lengthy careers designing Roman Catholic churches. He was licensed to practice architecture in New Jersey in 1905, and in New York in 1916, suggesting he only had to get his New York license after his partnership was dissolved with the more successful Reiley.

Unlike many other of his contemporaries, Steinback continued to work in private practice during World War I, not completing any government service until World War II when he worked on engineering on Stewart's Field and at Rye Lake Airport. 1912: Church of the Queen of All Saints, at Lafayette and Vanderbilt Avenues in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 1915: St. Patrick's Church, Bayshore, New York 1920: St. Ephram's School and Hall, Brooklyn, New York 1922: St. Monica's School and Convent, Jamaica, Queens, New York City 1931: St. Benedict's School, Bronx, New York 1951: Mary Queen of Heaven School, Brooklyn, New York

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