William H. Gompert

B. 1875
D. 1946 New York, NY

William Gompert was chief architect for the New York Board of Education, 1923-27, as well as a member of the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Architectural League of New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Architectural League of New York. Gompert was educated at Adelphi Academy, Pratt Institute, and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.

 

Gompert was employed in the firms of McKim, Mead & White, Maynicke & Franke, and Harding & Gooch.  In 1906 he established his own practice around and specialized in the design of commercial and institutional buildings. He was elected president of the Brooklyn chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1923 and was hired by the New York City Board of Education as an expert to assist in the reorganization of the Bureau of Construction and Maintenance and to facilitate the construction of public schools.

 

In his nearly five years as school architect, Gompert was credited with overseeing the design and construction of some 170 new schools and additions, including The High School of Music & Art (in 1924), DeWitt Clinton High School and Theodore Roosevelt High School (1929), the Bronx; James Madison High School (1926), Brooklyn; and Jamaica High School (1927) and Far Rockaway High School (1929), Queens, in versions of styles including Collegiate Gothic, Georgian, and Spanish Colonial.

 

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