(b New York, 15 Dec 1837; d Bernardsville, NJ, 28 Nov 1913). American architect. A major architect of the skyscraper (see SKYSCRAPER, §2(i)), he was acknowledged in his lifetime as the ‘father of the tall building in New York’. Following his graduation in civil engineering from New York University in 1858, he entered Richard Morris Hunt’s studio, where he remained for two years. There he met Charles D. Gambrill (1834–80; later in partnership with H. H. Richardson), with whom he was associated from 1860 to 1867. Afterwards he practised independently until 1904, when his sons William Stone Post (1866–1940) and James Otis Post (1873–1951) became his partners in the firm of George B. Post & Sons.

• Post, George B(rowne)
  • Burnham, Daniel H., §2: Urban plans for the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1890–93
  • New York, §I, 3: History and urban development, c 1870–c 1920
  • Richardson, H. H., §2(i): Early career: Initial works
  • collaboration
    • Gilman, Arthur Delavan
    • Skyscraper, §2(i): History and development, before 1945
  • pupils
    • Robertson, R. H.
  • works
    • Exhibition architecture, §2: France and the USA, 1876–1915
    • Skyscraper, §1: Technical characteristics
    • Terracotta, §II, 2(ii)(c): History and uses in the Western world: Architecture, c 1840–c 1890