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Henry Fernbach

1829 – 1883

American architect

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Lived 1829 – 1883 (aged 53–54). Henry Fernbach was an American architect.

Henry Fernbach (1829–1883) was an architect in New York City. Born in Breslau, which then belonged to Germany, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1848 and trained at the Bauakademie in Berlin.

He served as Treasurer of the United Association of American Architect. East 77th Street near Third Avenue, NYC (1863) original permanent location, Harmonie Club, 45 West Forty-Second Street, NYC (1867) entrance gate, Salem Fields Cemetery, 775 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn (1867) Temple Emanu-El, 43rd Street and 5th Avenue, with architect Leopold Eidlitz (1868; razed 1927) Central Synagogue, 652 Lexington Avenue, NYC (1870–72) 67, 69, 71, 75, 77, 81 Greene Street (1873) Stern Brothers Department Store, 32-36 West 23rd Street, NYC, expanded in stages (1878, 1878, 1880) Eden Musée, 55 West 23rd Street, NYC (Fernbach died mid-project; completed by Theodore de Lemos) (1884) 113, 115 Spring Streets, lofts with Tuscan columns and cast iron fronts SoHo Hotel at 101-111 Greene Street (not the new buildings 101 and 107–11 by Joseph Pell Lombardi)

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American architect

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Henry Fernbach died in 1883.

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· Wikidata: Q16983859

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