Grad Associates Explained

Grad Associates
Type:Private
Founder:Frank Grad
Industry:Architectural services
Hq Location:Newark, New Jersey

Grad Associates, formerly Grad Partnership and Frank Grad & Sons, was an architectural firm based in Newark, New Jersey. Founded in 1906 by Frank Grad (1882–1968),[1] the company was later run by his sons, Bernard (d. August 4, 2000)[2] and Howard (d. 1992).[3] The company closed its doors on February 19, 2010.[4]

Born in Austria, Frank Grad was educated at the Newark Arts School (the forerunner of Arts High School). He began his Newark architectural practice in 1906. Grad was capable of working in many styles, from the Beaux-Arts, YMHA on MLK Boulevard, to the Spanish colonial Stanley Theater and Beth Israel Hospital, to the Neo-Classical Newark Symphony Hall, to the Art Deco 1180 Raymond Boulevard (aka, the Lefcourt Building). Several of Grad's greatest commissions, the YMHA, the Stanley Theater, Beth Israel, and the Lefcourt Building, were for Jewish patrons. In the mid-1930s the name of the firm became Frank Grad & Sons. Grad died in 1968.[5]

His firm, Grad Associates was continued by his sons after Grad died. Grad Associates peaked in the 1980s when there were over 130 architects working there, but closed in the winter of 2010, a victim of the Great Recession. The firm added new partners in 1966, and became the Grad Partnership. In 1990, the firm became GRAD Associates, P.A.[6] At the time the firm closed the managing partners were Allen Trousdale and Vasant Kshirsagar. Grad was one of the first large firms in the New York region to invest in extensive computer-aided design facilities.

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  1. News: GRAD Associates Celebrates 100 Years | New Jersey Business | Find Articles at BNET . Findarticles.com . 2010-02-27 . 2006.
  2. News: Paid Notice - Deaths GRAD, BERNARD JOHN - Paid Death Notice . NYTimes.com . 2000-08-07 . 2010-02-27.
  3. News: Howard Grad Dies - An Ex-Engineer, 79 - Obituary; Biography . NYTimes.com . 1992-12-02 . 2010-02-27.
  4. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/architectural_firm_that_helped.html Architectural firm that shaped Newark, N.Y.C. skylines closes after 104 years | NJ.com
  5. Web site: Oheb Shalom Cemetery . Newarkhistory.com . 2002-08-08 . 2010-09-07.
  6. Web site: Oheb Shalom Cemetery . Newarkhistory.com . 2002-08-08 . 2010-09-07.
  7. News: Depalma . Anthony . IN THE REGION; New Jersey: Office Tower on the Hudson Vies For Title of the State's Tallest - New York Times . Nytimes.com . 1986-05-11 . 2010-02-27.
  8. Web site: ABOUT . https://archive.today/20110716062649/http://www.shorepointarch.com/About%20SPA.htm . dead . 2011-07-16 . Shorepointarch.com . 2010-02-27 .
  9. News: Kennedy . Shawn G. . Real Estate - An Addition To Newark's Downtown . NYTimes.com . 1990-01-31 . 2010-02-27.
  10. Web site: Welcome to the AERTC Conference . Aertc.org . 2010-02-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724224918/http://www.aertc.org/conference/btrousdale.asp . 2011-07-24 . dead .
  11. Web site: 1180 Raymond Boulevard, Newark . SkyscraperPage.com . 2010-02-27.
  12. Web site: Stanley Theater/Newark Gospel Tabernacle. Bennett, Jeffrey.
  13. Web site: Private, Corporate, and Office Projects. 2010-02-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20110710170042/http://www.eda-pc.com/pcop.doc. 2011-07-10. dead.
  14. Web site: Environmental Design Associates PC - Hotels and Conference Centers. 2010-02-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20110710170102/http://www.eda-pc.com/hotels.html. 2011-07-10. dead.
  15. News: Essex College Breaks Ground for New Buildings. The New York Times. 22 June 1972.

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