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JAMES STEWART POLSHEK, FAIA (1930-2022)
Polshek was born in Akron OH. He initially intended to study medicine and enrolled premed at Case Western Reserve University in 1947. After deciding to study architecture, he transferred to Yale in 1950 and studied under Louis Kahn, graduating five years later with a Master of Architecture degree. Polshek first worked for I. M. Pei, Ulrich Franzen, and other architects before establishing James Stewart Polshek Architect in 1963. His projects included the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center, Rose Center for Earth and Space, Newseum, Ed Sullivan Theater, and the refurbishment of Carnegie Hall. Polshek became the dean of the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University in 1973, serving until 1987. Polshek was unusual among top-tier architects for taking the position that architecture is more craft than fine art and that architects have some measure of social responsibility. Case Western Reserve University eventually granted his Bachelor of Science degree in 1973, forgiving the eight credits he was short. He won the AIA New York Gold Medal in 1986 and the national AIA Gold Medal in 2018. One of his best known buildings is the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock AR.
The firm changed its name to Ennead. Polshek retired in 2005, retaining the title of design counsel. His book, Build, Memory, was published in 2014. Polshek married Ellyn Margolis in 1952; they had two children: Peter and Jennifer. Polshek received honorary degrees from Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Columbia. Bio adapted from Wikipedia. Research by Catherine Westergaard Cramer.
1957 - The Gerald and Gisela Kallmann Oster Residence, Stony Point NY. Designed with Ludovica Schniewind. Status unknown.
1960 - The Gerald and Gisela Kallmann Oster Townhouse, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1964 - The Ronald Stanton Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1964 - The Joseph Miller Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1964 - The Anna Neisser Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1965 - The Lloyd Richards Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1965 - The John Cates Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1966 - The Ambassador Franklin Williams Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1966 - The Hugo Dunhill Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1967 - The Hedley Donovan Poolhouse, Sands Point NY. Designed with Joseph Fleischer. Status unknown.
1967 - The Eric Lommitzl Residence, New York NY. Destroyed.
1967 - The Peter Ryan Residence, Newtown CT. Unbuilt.
1968 - The Monte Ghertler Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1968 - The Edgar Bronfman Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1968 - The Milton Carrow Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1968 - The Binem Krygier Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1968 - aka Tea Lane Property, Chilmark MA. Unbuilt.
1969 - The Edgar and Ann Loeb Bronfman Pool House, Purchase NY. This was a referral to Polshek from Philip Johnson. The Bronfmans eventually destroyed the pool house and sold the main house.
1969 - The Robert Gellert House, 21 Kerry Lane, Chappaqua NY. Sold in 2008 to Padmapriya Pingali and Venu Krishna. Sold in 2021 to Karl and Poornima Eber.
1971 - The Hedley Donovan Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1972 - The Zimmerman Residence Renovation, Rumson NJ. Status unknown.
1973 - The Ruth Franklin Residence, Greenwich CT. Status unknown.
1977 - The Michael Korda Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1978 - The Richard E. Snyder Residence, St. Moritz Hotel, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1979 - The Delafield Estates, Riverdale NY. Developed by Delafield Estates Limited. Unbuilt. Edward Delafield donated the property in 1965 to Columbia University with the hopes it would become a botantical garden. The university sold it a decade later to a developer. The developer worked with Polshek to plan a gated community of 33 compact houses. Financial difficulties halted the project.
1980 - The Charles Atkins Residence, New York NY. Destroyed.
1980 - The Ivan Chermayeff Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1981 - The Harry Macklowe Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1981 - The US Embassy, Jamiat Al Dowal Al Arabiya, Shatti Al Qurum, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
1983 - The Larry Silverstein Residence, New York NY. Interiors only. Status unknown.
1984 - 500 Park Tower, Manhattan NY. 40 stories, mixed-use, lower 11 floors for offices, top 29 floors for residential. The 2 towers on the right are Ennead's, the front facing glass and steel building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois while working at SOM in 1954. De Blois is listed as primary designer.
1985 - The Frederick Field Residence, New York NY. Unbuilt.
2010 - The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt House Renovation at Hunter College, 47-49 East 65th Street, New York NY. Originally, this was a house for the Roosevelts and his mother.
Sources include: Richard Olcutt; Ennead; James Stewart Polshek: Context and Responsibility.