George Washington Foster

George Washington Foster
Born
George Washington Foster Jr.

(1866-12-18)December 18, 1866
Virginia, U.S.
DiedDecember 20, 1923(1923-12-20) (aged 57)
Park Ridge, New Jersey, U.S.
Resting placeWestwood Cemetery,
Westwood, New Jersey
Known forArchitect
SpouseCarrie
Children6

George Washington Foster Jr. (December 18, 1866 – December 20, 1923), was an American architect.[1] He was among the first African-American architects licensed by the State of New Jersey in 1908, and later New York (1916). Foster partnered with Vertner Woodson Tandy (1885–1949), the first African-American architect licensed by the State of New York, in the firm of Tandy and Foster, which was active from 1908 to 1914.[2][3]

  1. ^ Dozier, Richard K. (2006). "African-Americans in Architecture". African American Registry (AAREG). Archived from the original on 2009-02-08.
  2. ^ T. Robins Brown, Schuyler Warmflash, Jim DelGiudice, The architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey: the colonial period to the twentieth century
  3. ^ Wilson, Dreck Spurlock (2004). African-American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-92959-2.