Cass Gilbert Society

Selected Works

Cass Gilbert-Designed Works

Below is a selected sample from several hundred Cass Gilbert architectural works. Information on works designed in Gilbert’s Saint Paul office is based on original research by Thomas R. Blanck and Charles Locks, as well as sources cited with the individual entries. Information for the other works is based on cited sources and research compiled by Sonja Mason and Marjorie Pearson. Entries have been edited by Marjorie Pearson. In many instances, related Gilbert buildings are displayed for comparison, based mostly on visual qualities, type, and use. In some cases, the related buildings are by contemporary architectural peers.
Government Buildings
Minnesota State Capitol 1895-1905[1] Saint Paul
U.S. Custom House 1899-1907[2] New York
Arkansas State Capitol 1900-1909, 1910-1917[3] Little Rock
Essex County Courthouse 1904-1908 [4] Newark
Waterbury City Hall 1914-1915[5] Waterbury
United States Treasury Annex 1917-1918 [6] Washington
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank 1921-1925[7] Minneapolis
West Virginia State Capitol 1924-1932[8] Charleston
United States Supreme Court 1928-1935[9] Washington
U.S. Federal Courthouse 1929-1936 [10] New York
Institutions
Omaha Exposition Agricultural Building 1898, razed[11] Omaha
Palace of Fine Arts (St. Louis Art Museum) 1901-1904[12] St. Louis
Madison Central High School 1904-1908, razed 1986[13] Madison
Oberlin Finney Chapel 1905-1908[14] Oberlin
Ives Memorial Library 1907-1911[15] New Haven
St. Louis Public Library 1907-1912[16] St. Louis
University of Texas Library 1910-1911[17] Austin
Detroit Public Library 1913-1921 [18] Detroit
Oberlin Cox Administration Building 1913-1915[19] Oberlin
Allen Memorial Art Museum 1915-1917 [20] Oberlin
University of Texas at Austin Education Building (Sutton Hall) 1915-1918[21] Austin
Allen Memorial Hospital 1924-1925[22] Oberlin
Oberlin Graduate School of Theology Quadrangle 1930-1931[23] Oberlin
Seaside Clinic 1931-1935 Waterford
Churches
Dayton Avenue Presbyterian Church 1885-1886 [24] Saint Paul
Virginia Street Church 1886 [25] Saint Paul
St. Martin's Episcopal Church (Camp Memorial) 1887-1888[26] Minnetonka Beach
German Bethlehem Presbyterian Church 1890 [27] Saint Paul
German Methodist Episcopal Church 1892-1894, razed ca. 1900[28] Saint Paul
St. Clement's Episcopal Church 1894-1895[29] Saint Paul
St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Virginia MN 1895 Virginia
Christ Episcopal Church of Hibbing MN 1896, razed 1945[30] Hibbing
Residences
Elizabeth Gilbert Residence 1883-1884[31] Saint Paul
House on Virginia Avenue 1883, 1887 (moved)[32] Saint Paul
J.Q. Adams House 1883 [33] Saint Paul
C.P. Noyes Summer Cottage 1884 [34] White Bear Lake
D.W. McCourt House 1887[35] Saint Paul
O.W. Mosher Residence 1887[36] New Richmond
C.P. Noyes Residence 1887-1889[37] Saint Paul
A.J. Seligman Residence 1887[38] Helena
Driscoll House 1887-1900 Saint Paul
Portland Terrace 1888-1889[39] Saint Paul
Cass & Julia Gilbert Residence 1889-1890[40] Saint Paul
J.B. Tarbox Summer Cottage 1889[41] White Bear Lake
W.H. Lightner House 1893[42] Saint Paul
J.H. Skinner Summer Cottage 1894 [43] White Bear Lake
C. Livingston House 1898 [44] Saint Paul
Ingram Residence 1899 Eau Claire
Severance Residence (Cedarhurst) 1911-1917 Cottage Grove
Garden House at Cannonball House (now Keeler Tavern) 1915 Ridgefield
Offices & Banks
Endicott Building 1889-1890, 1910[45] Saint Paul
C. Gotzian & Company Building 1892, 1895[46] Saint Paul
Brazer Building 1896-1899[47] Boston
Broadway Chambers Building 1899-1900[48] New York
West Street Building 1905-1907 [49] New York
State Savings Bank 1906[50] Butte
Woolworth Building 1910-1913[51] New York
Union Central Life Insurance Co. Building 1911-1913[52] Cincinnati
Chase Brass and Copper Building 1917-1919[53] Waterbury
New York Life Building 1925-1928 [54] New York
Warehouses & Stores
Clark Bryant Block 1886-1887, razed 1980 South Saint Paul
Col. C.B. Kerr Building 1888[55] Saint Cloud
Blood Warehouse (Gilbert Building) 1893-1894[56] Saint Paul
Boston Clothing Co. (Bowlby Building) 1895, razed 1960s[57] Saint Paul
Realty Company Warehouse 1895-1909 [58] Minneapolis
Glass Block Building 1902 Duluth
Hotels & Clubs
Town & Country Club 1890 [59] Saint Paul
Montana Club 1903-1905[60] Helena
Placer Hotel 1912-1913[61] Helena
Railroad Buildings
Northern Pacific Railroad Hospital - Brainerd 1883 [62] Brainerd
Northern Pacific Railroad Hospital - Missoula 1883 [63] Missoula
Great Northern Railway Depot - Grand Forks 1891 Grand Forks
Northern Pacific Railroad Depot - Fargo 1897-1900[64] Fargo
Northern Pacific Railroad Depot - Bismarck 1899 Bismarck
Northern Pacific Railroad Depot - Little Falls 1899-1900[65] Little Falls
Northern Pacific Railroad Depot - Yakima 1899 North Yakima
New Haven Railroad Station 1909-1918[66] New Haven
Landscape & Planning
Roselawn Cemetery 1902-1904[67] Roseville
University of Minnesota Campus Plan 1907-1910 [68] Minneapolis
James Scott Memorial Fountain 1921-1925[69] Detroit

Notes

  1. 1895-1905 Irish-1999; 1895-1905 Christen-2001
  2. 1899-1907 Irish-1999; 1899 Christen-2001
  3. 1917 Irish-1999; 1900-1909, 1910-1917 Hitchcock-Seale-1976
  4. 1901-1902 Irish-1999; 1904-1908 Christen-2001
  5. 1914-1915 Christen-2001
  6. 1917-1922 Irish-1999
  7. 1922 Christen-2001; 1921 Mpls-Fed-web
  8. 1924-1932 Irish-1999; 1924-1932 Christen-2001
  9. 1928-1935 Irish-1999; 1928-1935 Christen-2001
  10. 1929-1936 Irish-1999; 1929-1936 Christen-2001
  11. 1898 Irish-1999; 1898 Christen-2001
  12. 1901-1904 Irish-1999; 1904 Christen-2001
  13. 1905 Irish-1999
  14. 1905-1908 Irish-1999; 1905-1908 Christen-2001
  15. 1908-1911 Irish-1999; 1907-1911 Christen-2001
  16. 1907-1912 Irish-1999; 1907-1912 Christen-2001
  17. 1909-1911 Irish-1999; 1911 Christen-2001
  18. 1913-1921 Irish-1999; 1915-1921 Christen-2001
  19. 1914-1915 Irish-1999 1913-1915 Christen-2001
  20. 1914-1917 Irish-1999; 1915-1917Christen-2001
  21. 1915-1918 Irish-1999; Christen-2001
  22. 1924-1925 Irish-1999; Christen-2001
  23. 1930-1931 Irish-1999; 1931 Christen-2001
  24. 1886 Irish-1999; 1886-1888 Christen-2001
  25. 1886 Irish-1999; 1887 Christen-2001
  26. 1887-1888 Christen-2001; 1888 Irish-1999
  27. 1890 Irish-1999; 1890 Christen-2001
  28. 1892 Christen-2001
  29. 1894-1895 Irish-1999; Christen-2001
  30. 1896 Christen-2001
  31. 1882-1883 Irish-1999; 1882-1883 Christen-2001
  32. 1883 Christen-2001
  33. 1884-1885 Irish-1999; Christen-2001
  34. 1884 Christen-2001
  35. 1887 Christen-2001
  36. 1887 Christen-2001; 1893 Irish-1999
  37. 1887-1889 Irish-1999; 1889 Christen-2001
  38. 1887 Christen-2001
  39. 1888 Irish-1999
  40. 1890 Christen-2001
  41. 1889 Irish-1999
  42. 1893 Irish-1999; 1893 Christen-2001
  43. 1894 Irish-1999
  44. 1898 Irish-1999; 1898 Christen-2001
  45. 1889-1891 Irish-1999; 1889-1890 Christen-2001
  46. 1895 Irish-1999; 1892, 1895 Christen-2001
  47. 1896-1897 Irish-1999; 1895 Christen-2001
  48. 1899-1900 Irish-1999
  49. 1905-1907 Irish-1999; 1905-1907 Christen-2001
  50. 1906 Irish-1999
  51. 1910-1913 Irish-1999; 1910-1913 Christen-2001
  52. 1911-1913 Irish-1999
  53. 1917-1919 Christen-2001
  54. 1925-1928 Irish-1999
  55. 1888 Irish-1999 1887 Saint-Cloud-HPC
  56. 1893-1894 Irish-1999; 1893-1894 Christen-2001
  57. 1895 Irish-1999; 1895 Christen-2001
  58. 1903 Irish-1999; 1902 Christen-1901
  59. 1890 Christen-2001
  60. 1906 Irish-1999; 1903-1906 Christen-2001
  61. 1912 Irish-1999; 1912 Christen-2001
  62. 1883 Christen-2001
  63. 1883 Christen-2001
  64. 1897-1898 MNHS-CGP; 1897-1900 Christen-2001
  65. 1899-1900 Irish-1999; 1899-1900 Christen-2001
  66. Irish-1999; 1907-1918 Christen-2001
  67. 1904 Christen-2001
  68. 1908 Irish-1999
  69. 1921-22 Irish-1999