N. Lester Troast

N. Lester Troast
Born July 20, 1899
Died October 9, 1958
Clifton, New Jersey
Nationality United States
Occupation Architect
Practice N. L. Troast; N. L. Troast & Associates
Buildings, Matanuska Valley Colony, 1935.
U. S. Federal Building, Nome, 1935.
Light and Power Building, Juneau, 1936.

N. Lester Troast (18991958)[1] was an American architect from Sitka and Juneau, Alaska, who was the first professional architect to practice in Alaska.

Life and career

Troast began his career in the 1920s, as a teacher at Sitka's Sheldon Jackson School. Circa 1930, he left the school and established an architect's office in Sitka. At that time, he was noted as Alaska's only professional architect.[2] Later that year he moved his office to Juneau, the largest city in the then-territory. He quickly associated with William A. Manley, who would become a partner in N. Lester Troast & Associates in 1935. Manley was sent to Anchorage in late 1937 to open an office for the firm in that city.[3] Troast moved to New Jersey, and Manley opened his own Anchorage office in 1941.

In New Jersey, Troast lived in Clifton, and was associated with the family firm, the Mahoney-Troast Construction Company, headquartered in Passaic.

William Manley would go on to have a notable career as the senior partner in the Anchorage firm of Manley & Mayer.

Works

N. Lester Troast, before 1935

N. Lester Troast & Associates, 1935-1941

References

  1. "N. Lester Troast (1899-1958)". http://public.aia.org/. n.d. Web.
  2. 1 2 Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner 28 July 1930: 8.
  3. Alaska Miner 10 May 1938: 11.
  4. "Sage Building". http://hcap.artstor.org/. n.d. Web.
  5. 1 2 Hoagland, Alison K. Buildings of Alaska. 1993.
  6. Mayflower School NRHP Nomination. 1988.
  7. Alanen, Arnold R. "Midwesterners in the Matanuska Valley: Colonizing Rular Alaska during the 1930s". People, Power, Places: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture. Ed. Sally McMurry and Annmarie Adams. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
  8. Western Architect and Engineer 1935: 71.
  9. Hoagland, Alison K. Buildings of Alaska. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  10. "231 S. Franklin Street". http://www.juneau.org/. n.d. Web.
  11. "1 February 1980 issue". http://www.juneau.org/. n.d. Web.
  12. http://www.aelp.com/history/revised/centennial/p2.pdf
  13. 1 2 Loussac-Sogn Building NRHP Nomination. 1998.
  14. "Douglas City Hall Blueprints 1937". http://www.juneau.org/. 6 June 2015.
  15. South Addition Historic Context Statement & Building Survey. 2012.
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