Wolfgang Gustav Triest Explained

W.G. Triest
Birth Name:Wolfgang Gustav Triest
Children:Willard Gustav Triest
Gustav Kenneth Triest
Carl Gunther Triest
Birth Place:New York City, New York, United States
Death Date:1946
Death Place:New York, United States
Practice Name:Snare & Triest Company
Triest Construction Company

Wolfgang Gustav Triest (1946) was an American civil engineer. He was the founder of the Triest Construction Company in New York, and had homes in Annapolis, Maryland, and Southampton, Long Island.

Early life

Wolfgang Gustav Triest, also known as W. G. Triest, was born in New York City, New York.[1]

Career

In 1898, Frederick Snare and W.G. Triest founded the Snare & Triest Company.[2] The Snare & Triest Company was incorporated in 1900.[3] The Snare & Triest Company was renamed the Frederick Snare Corporation Contracting Engineers in the early 1920s. Around 1921, Snare and Triest agreed to part ways.[4] He continued in heavy construction under the firm, Triest Contracting Corporation, subway and bridge builders of New York.[5]

Triest was involved in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.[6] His company also built part of the subway tunnel on the IND line, part of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel, and the cutoff wall of Merriman Dam in Wawarsing, New York.

Death

W.G. Triest died in 1946. He was a resident of Great Neck in Nassau County at the time of his death.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The People of the State of New York — To Gustav Kenneth Triest - Newspapers.com™. newspapers.com. 2024-05-21.
  2. Web site: American Photo Company photographs of the Port of Havana construction. ufdc.ufl.edu. 2024-05-19.
  3. Web site: The Snake & Triest Company Marine Link. nytimes.com. 2024-05-19.
  4. Book: Wolf . Donald . Crossing the Hudson: Historic Bridges and Tunnels of the River . 2010 . Rutgers University Press . . 978-0-8135-4950-7 .
  5. Web site: June 22, 1989 . Willard G. Triest, 83; Led Building Company . 2024-05-20 . New York Times.
  6. Mason, J. T. (1986). The Pacific war remembered: an oral history collection . Naval Institute Press.