Paul Waldron Reilly

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Paul W(aldron) Reilly
Born30 March 1932 [1]
DiedMay 25, 2011(2011-05-25) (aged 79)
NationalityAmerican
Known forArchitect

Paul Waldron Reilly, AIA (born 30 March 1932 - 25 May 2011), was an American architect who practiced in mid-20th-century New York, New Jersey, and Florida under the architectural firm name Paul W. Reilly [1] [2]

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Personal life

Born 30 March 1932 in New York City [1] to father, architect Paul C. Reilly. [3] Reilly earned his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame in 1956. [1] He served in the government from 1956 to 1958. [1] In 1970, he lived in Locust, New Jersey. [1]

Architecture practice

He joined the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1964. [1] From 1966, he served on the New York City Mayor's Panel of Architects. In 1970, his office was located at 393 Seventh Ave, New York, New York 10001. [1] Generally an advocate of contemporary architecture, AIA Guide to NYC (1978), conceded that "it is hard to miss [St. Francis de Chantal's Church, Bronx,]. Perhaps that's one of its problems." [4] The small practice, Paul W Reilly & Associates, was listed as on Broad Street, Red Bank, New Jersey. [5] [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Paul W. Reilly Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine " American Architects Directory , Third Edition (New York City: R.R. Bowker LLC, 1970), p.753.
  2. "Paul W. Reilly". Star-Ledger. 3 June 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  3. "Paul C. Reilly, 94, Architect And a Catholic Lay Leader". The New York Times. September 13, 1984. Retrieved 12 February 2011. Paul C. Reilly, a retired New York and New Jersey architect whose works included the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Newark and the Roman Catholic Church of Our Saviour at Park Avenue and 38th Street in Manhattan, died Saturday at his home in Locust, N. J. He was 94 years old. Mr. Reilly was also closely associated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. He was a former member of the Cardinal's Committee of the Laity and once held the post of architect of St. Patrick's Cathedral. In addition to church architecture, Mr. Reilly designed several Manhattan theaters, including the Capitol, the Rialto, the Rivoli and the Morosco. Mr. Reilly, a native of New York City who later moved to West Orange, N. J., graduated from Columbia University and, early in his career, was chief designer for the former New York City architectural firm of Thomas W. Lamb. He is survived by a son, Paul W. Reilly of Locust, and three grandchildren.
  4. 1 2 3 Norval White and Elliot Willensky, AIA Guide to New York City , rev. ed., (New York: Collier Books, 1978), p.358.
  5. Paul W Reilly & Associates (accessed 11 February 2011)
  6. "Diane E. Hutchinson, a Bank Officer, Is Married to Paul Christopher Reilly". The New York Times. At the Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas More in New York, Diane Elizabeth Hutchinson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ashton Hutchinson Jr. of Wilton, Conn., and Vineyard Haven, Mass., was married yesterday to Paul Christopher Reilly, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Reilly of Locust, N.J., and Kiawah, S.C. The Rev. Thomas Burns performed the ceremony. Alexandra Victoria Hutchinson was maid of honor for her sister. The bridegroom's father was best man. Mrs. Reilly, an officer in the financial institutions group at Citibank, graduated from Skidmore College. Her father is the senior vice president of the Latin America/Iberia group of Philip Morris International in New York. Her grandfather the late Mr. Hutchinson, of South Bend, Ind., was president of Studebaker International. The bride is also a granddaughter of the late Charles Stacy Adams of Paris, president of Sinclair Petroleum, S.A. Mr. Reilly is a mortgage-sales account executive with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York. He graduated from the Lawrenceville School and Colgate University. His father is president of Paul W. Reilly & Associates, an architectural firm in Red Bank, N.J. The bridegroom's grandfather the late Paul Cornelius Reilly was a New York architect whose work included the renovation of the Church of St. Thomas More. The bridegroom is also the grandson of the late Dr. James H. Watt Jr., chief of surgery at Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck, N.Y. November 8, 1987. Retrieved 12 February 2011.