As the founder of the Carnegie Tech Department of Architecture and as architect for numerous prominent buildings such as the Temple Rodef Shalom (1904), the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall (1907) and the City-County Building (1915-1917, with Edward B. The Carnegie Mellon University Architectural Archives said of his importance to the city: 'Henry Hornbostel began work in Pittsburgh in 1904 when he won the Carnegie Technical Schools Competition for design of the campus that is now Carnegie Mellon University. His work at the Carnegie Technical Schools, (renamed the Carnegie Institute of Technology and, after its merger with the Mellon Institute, Carnegie Mellon University ), was literally and metaphorically foundational. Hornbostel made a significant architectural impact on various cities, perhaps most deeply in Pittsburgh. (Thank you to Catherine Westergaard for her information on Emory University. He won, with Wililam Palmer, the planning competition for the new Carnegie Technical Schools campus in Pittsburgh (1904-1905) and, his firm, Hornbostel, Palmer and Jones, gained the commission to design 13 buildings at Emory University in Atlanta, GA (1914-1919). He teamed with Howells and Stokes to take second place in the important campus planning competition backed by Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919) for the University of California, Berkeley (1898-1899). Perhaps his most notable contribution was in university design.

Hornbostel made significant contributions to American city hall design, designing buildings in Pittsburgh, Wilimington, DE, Hartford, CT, and Oakland, CA, as well as bridge design in New York City. It was his good fortune to live in an industrial America that was growing rich, and, using this prosperity, it could reshape and enlarge both its utilitarian infrastructure and cultural institutions. His clients included the crème de la crème of the profession, McKim Mead and White, Carrère and Hastings and others.

Hornbostel had remarkable drafting skills, putting his availability as a presentation drawing consultant, in high demand. Early in his career, he supplemented his income as a renderer consulting with New York architectural firms to produce presentation drawings for important commissions. He worked in loose affiliations with other architects including John Mead Howells (1868-1959), Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1867-1944), George E. Hornbostel traveled a great deal throughout his life, entering design competitions and consulting with other architectural firms.

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