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George Washington Foster
mmádu
ụdịekerenwoke Dezie
mba o sịNjikota Obodo Amerika Dezie
aha enyereGeorge, George Washington Dezie
aha ezinụlọ yaFoster Dezie
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya1866 Dezie
Ebe ọmụmụNewark Dezie
Ụbọchị ọnwụ ya1923 Dezie
Ebe ọ nwụrụPark Ridge Dezie
ọrụ ọ na-arụonye na-ese ụkpụrụ ụlọ Dezie
agbụrụNdi Afrika nke Amerika Dezie
George Washington Foster
Born
George Washington Foster, Jr.

(1866-12-18) 18 Disemba 1866
Died20 Disemba 1923(1923-12-20) (aged 57)
Resting placeWestwood Cemetery,
Westwood, New Jersey
NationalityAmerican
Known forArchitect
Spouse(s)Carrie
Children6

George Washington Foster (1866 ruo 1923) bụ onye Afrịka-Amerịka na-ese ụkpụrụ ụlọ. Ọ bụ otu n'ime ndị Afrịka-Amerịka mbụ na-ewu ụlọ nke steeti New Jersey nyere ikike na 1908, na mgbe e mesịrị New York (1916). Foster sonyeere Vertner Woodson Tandy (1885X1949), onye Afrịka-Amerịka mbụ na-ewu ụlọ nke steeti New York nyere ikike, na ụlọ ọrụ Tandy na Foster, nke na-arụsi ọrụ ike site na 1908 ruo 1914.[1][2]

Oge ọ malitere

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A mụrụ George Washington Foster, Jr. na Disemba 18, 1866, na Virginia.[3] Nna ya bụ onye na-agba ịnyịnya na nne ya bụ nwa Jefferson Davis. Ọ kwagara Newark, New Jersey mgbe ọ dị afọ anọ.[3]

Foster gara ụlọ akwụkwọ abalị na Cooper Union ma mụọ ihe owuwu.[3]

A na-ekwu na Foster rụrụ ọrụ n'ọfịs Henry Hardenbergh site na 1888 ruo 1889, onye chepụtara ihe ịrịba ama nke New York City Dakota Apartment Building, Plaza Hotel, na Waldorf-Astoria mbụ, na ebe dị ugbu a nke Empire State Building. N'oge ya na Hardenbergh, ọ gaara arụ ọrụ na Waldorf Hotel na 1892.[3] O nwekwara ike ịbụ na ọ rụrụ ọrụ na Flatiron Building, nke ụlọ ọrụ D. H. Burnham nke dị na Chicago rụrụ.[1][3]

N'ihe dị ka 1908, Foster zutere Vertner Woodson Tandy, onye mbụ debanyere aha na New York Afrịka-Amerịka architect ma guzobe ụlọ ọrụ ụlọ Tandy & Foster ọnụ.[3] Tandy & Foster chepụtara St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Harlem, New York) na 1910. Mgbe 1915, e nyere Foster ikike ịrụ ọrụ na New York ma nọgide n'ọfịs nke ya ruo mgbe ọ nwụrụ.[1] Ha rụkwara ọrụ na Mother AME Zion Church na Harlem.[3]

Ndụ onwe onye

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Ya na nwunye ya, Carrie, kwagara Park Ridge, New Jersey n'ụlọ o chepụtara ma wuo.[3] Ya na nwunye ya nwere ụmụ isii, gụnyere Henry Hardenburg Foster, onye akpọrọ aha onye were ya n'ọrụ.[3]

Ọnwụ

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Ọ nwụrụ na Disemba 20, 1923, n'ụlọ o mepụtara na Colony Avenue, na Bergen County, Park Ridge, New Jersey.[1][3] E liri ya na Westwood Cemetery na Westwood, New Jersey.[3]

Edensibia

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 T. Robins Brown, Schuyler Warmflash, Jim DelGiudice, The architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey: the colonial period to the twentieth century
  2. Wilson (2004). African-American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945. ISBN 978-0-415-92959-2. 
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Boyd (2020-12-10). Black architectural forerunner, George Washington Foster, Jr.. amsterdamnews.com. Retrieved on 2021-03-23. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name "boyd" defined multiple times with different content