Irving Mitchell Felt, a New York City native, was born on January 25, 1910. He was raised on 140th Street in Manhattan. Felt graduated from the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania at the young age of 19. Soon after graduating, he joined Wall Street's Hayden Stone but then moved to the investment firm of Graham Paige, where he truly left his mark.
Gardner Osborn, a historian and preservationist, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1893. He attended Yale University and graduated in 1915. After graduation, Osborn moved to New York where he began working for the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency. He later worked as the publicity director for Bloomingdale's, and then went on to do public relations for the Downtown Owners Committee1.
1. Clark, Alfred E. "Gardner Osborn, Preservationist, 86," New York Times, July 8, 1979.
Alan Burnham was born on February 10, 1913, in Englewood, New Jersey. He attended prep school in Connecticut and Colorado, and went on to receive a Bachelor of Science from Harvard in 1935. In 1940, he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Columbia University. As an architect, he worked in the firm of Stanley and Sturges, which specialized in architecture for the Roman Catholic Church1.
1. Fraser, Gerald C., "Alan Burnham is Dead at 71; Architect and Preservationist," New York Times, March 5, 1984.
Pierce Trowbridge Wetter, a consulting engineer and the former Treasurer of the Greenwich Village Historical Society, lived at 24 Washington Square North for a large part of his life. He is known best for his participation in the fight against Robert Moses’ 1939 Plan for Washington Square Park and also for the lawsuit he brought against Robert Moses in Fall of 1941 to stop demolition of Castle Clinton1.
1. Anthony C. Wood. Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Sometimes listed as Agnes A. Gilchrist, Agnes Gilchrist, Mrs. John M. Gilchrist or Agnes E. Addison.
Biography
Agnes Addison Gilchrist was born December 25, 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended Wellesley College where she earned a bachelor's degree in Art in 1930, and the University of Pennsylvania where she earned a master's degree in Medieval History in 1933 and a doctorate in Modern History in 1938.
Stanely E. Michels was born in Manhattan on January 28, 1933, as the son of handbag factory owners Lewis and Anne Strasberg1. Michels graduated from Hobart College in 1955 and later received a law degree from Cornell University in 19582.
1. Hevesi, Dennis. "Stanley E. Michels, Longtime Councilman, Dies at 75" The New York Times August 2, 2008.
