Montgomery Schuyler

American Architecture; Studies . Montgomery Schuyler

Montgomery Schuyler AIA, (August 19, 1843, Ithaca, NY - July 16, 1914, New Rochelle, NY) was a highly influential critic, journalist and editorial writer in New York City who wrote about and influenced art, literature, music and architecture during the city's "Gilded Age." He was active as a journalist for over forty years but is principally noted as a highly influential architecture critic, and advocate of modern designs and defender of the skyscrape, Schuyler was born in Ithaca, New York on August 19, 1843. He was the son of Eleanor (née Johnson) Schuyler (1818-1849) and the Rev. Dr. Anthony Schuyler (1816-1900), one time rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church Grace Church in Orange, New Jersey, [2] which is now known as the Church of the Epiphany. His siblings included Eleanor Schuyler (d. 1850), Ben Johnson Schuyler (d. 1854), Charles Brother Schuyler (1841-1929). After his mother's death, his father remarried to Mary Hall Allen in 1860, with whom his father had another daughter and two sons, Montgomery's half-siblings, Rev. Hamilton Schuyler and Anthony Schuyler, Jr