Architect
Centurion, 1898–1951
Born 23 February 1867 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 3 June 1951 in Southampton, New York
Buried Southampton Cemetery
, Southampton, New York
Proposed by J. Hampden Robb and George B. Post
Elected 7 May 1898 at age thirty-one
Century Memorial
Goodhue Livingston was born in the City of a long line of New York Livingstons. He graduated from Columbia in 1888, and four years later received his degree in architecture there.
In 1896 he made a partnership with Breck Trowbridge for the practise of architecture; and in the years that followed they designed some of the great landmarks in the City including Bankers Trust Company, the J. P. Morgan building and the addition to the Stock Exchange. They also built the Mitsui Bank in Tokyo and the United States Post Office and Court House in Pittsburgh. They were among the leading architects of the time and universally recognized as such.
Livingston was a cultured, civilized person, and an exceedingly competent architect. He had the vision to see the possibilities of steel sky-scraper construction, and to fit it to problems with economy and efficiency. His social life was effortless and pleasant, and he was active in many fields. He was a Trustee of the New York Dispensary, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the National Institute of Social Sciences.
He had a house at Southampton and he was there a great deal—especially in the later years—and he was President of the Southampton Club. It is such men as he who have made America great and preserved the best standards and ideals of the colonial stock.
He was eighty-four when he died, and he was a member of the Century for fifty-three years.
George W. Martin
1951/1952 Century Association Yearbook
