Vol. 17, No. 20	Feb. 19, 1998

An architect with classical taste

I nternationally known architect Allan Greenberg, the designer of Gore Hall, loves the classical style of architecture that graces the University's Mall. He's devoted his professional life to it.

University President David P. Roselle said Greenberg was selected over other architects because members of the University's Visiting Committee on Architecture felt he could design a building that would blend in perfectly with existing structures at the heart of the campus.

The committee, appointed by the Board of Trustees, is chaired by the architectural historian of the U.S. Capitol, Bill Allen, a 1972 graduate of the University.

When he announced Greenberg's selection, Roselle said, "The goal is to have a building of beauty and grace-envisioned nearly a century ago for this spot on the Mall-that visitors will see and think has always been here. We believe Allan Greenberg can handle that assignment."

Greenberg is perhaps best known for his design of a suite at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked to attain the character of rooms in which Thomas Jefferson would feel at home.

That project, done at the request of then Secretary of State George P. Schultz, included conversion and renovation of diplomatic reception rooms, renovations to the office of the secretary of state and deputy secretary of state and work on the Treaty Ceremony Room, its antechambers and reception rooms.

Other public buildings designed by Greenberg include Tercentenary Hall, at the College of William and Mary campus in Williamsburg, Va.; interior renovations to the Blair House in Washington, D.C.; an addition to the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; the Simon & Schuster executive offices in Rockefeller Center in New York City; and design or renovation work of several courthouses, churches and other public buildings, including the Space Satellite Tracking Station in Homestead, Fla. In the 1980s, one of his projects included unifying the facade of the expanding Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

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