{{Short description|American architect (1908–1998)}} {{Infobox person | name = Abraham Harold Salkowitz | birth_date = November 17, 1908 | birth_place = The Bronx, New York | death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|01|07|1908|11|17}} | death_place = New York | alma_mater = | occupation = Architect | years_active = 20th century | known_for = | notable_works = Lake Success Shopping Center<br>North Shore Towers | boards = | spouse = Fae | children = 4 | relatives = }} '''Abraham H. Salkowitz''' (known professionally as '''A.H. Salkowitz'''; November 17, 1908 – January 7, 1998) was an American architect, best known for his work throughout the New York metropolitan area – specifically in Queens in New York City, and in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island. He is credited as being one of the key architectural figures in the suburbanization of Long Island.<ref name=":8" />
== Biography and career == Abraham Harold Salkowitz was born in the Bronx, New York, on November 17, 1908.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=A.H. Salkowitz {{!}} Queens Modern |url=https://queensmodern.com/architecturalfirm/a-h-salkowitz/ |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=queensmodern.com}}</ref> He attended the Hebrew Technical Institute and the New York Building School, as well as City College of New York.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 5, 1925 |title=Hebrew Institute Gives 116 Diplomas; Exercises Include Motion Pictures of School and Display of Student Electrical Apparatus. |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1925/06/05/98830467.html?pageNumber=9 |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |page=9 |language=en}}</ref> Salkowitz also studied architecture at New York University, but he dropped out of the school before finishing his degree.<ref name=":8" /> He soon thereafter began working for a Queens architect, Joseph Unger, before opening his practice in 1936.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6yNr2eEE7UC&dq=%22Salkowitz%2C+Abraham%22&pg=RA10-PA145 |title=Records & Briefs, New York State Appellate Division |publisher=Appeals, New York (State) Court of |year=1965 |language=en |access-date=2024-04-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=1970 |title=AIA Directory of American Architects |url=https://content.aia.org/sites/default/files/2018-09/Bowker_1970_A.pdf |journal=American Institute of Architects}}</ref>
Salkowitz primarily worked on residential architectural projects in Queens up until about 1950. It was about this time when he began also designing commercial buildings, shopping centers, and synagogues – and expanding into Nassau and Suffolk Counties.<ref name=":8" />
In the early 1950s, Salkowitz designed the houses for the 150-home Westwood at Roslyn development in East Hills, New York, located on land previously occupied by the Schumaker Farm; he would eventually move into one of those homes: 151 Westwood Circle.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 28, 1950 |title=Plans 150 Houses on Roslyn Tract Builders to Offer Ranch Style With Three Bedrooms – Great Neck Section Opens |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1950/05/28/87041746.html?pageNumber=160 |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |page=160 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=July 9, 1950 |title=150 Ranch Houses Bought in Roslyn; Lane Realty Reports More Than Half of Group Sold in Westwood |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1950/07/09/113165524.html?pageNumber=113 |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |page=R6 |language=en}}</ref> In 1952, he designed 515 homes for the {{Convert|120|acre|ha|adj=on}} Southwood-at-Syosset housing development, off South Oyster Bay Road in Syosset, New York.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 6, 1952 |title=Houses at $9,990 Opened in Syosset: Warfield and Tarlofsky Using New Materials and Methods in 515-Family Project |work=The New York Times |page=W1 |id={{ProQuest|<!-- Add ProQuest data here -->}}}}</ref>
In 1953, Salkowitz designed the {{Convert|20|acre|ha|adj=on}} Lake Success Shopping Center in North New Hyde Park, New York; it was completed in 1956.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=December 27, 1953 |title=Big Nassau Store for Namm-Loeser|work=The New York Times |page=R1 |id={{ProQuest|<!-- Add ProQuest data here -->}}}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Appeals |first=New York (State) Court of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xt1lJddwU1sC&dq=%22Salkowitz%2C+Abraham%22&pg=PP126 |title=New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs. |date=1955 |language=en}}</ref>
In the mid-1950s Salkowitz designed the houses in the Cherrywood Homes development in Manhasset Hills, New York.<ref name=":22">{{Cite news |date=1957-05-05 |title=Builders on L.I. Plan New Homes; Manhasset Hills Tract to Be Site of 88 Split-Levels in the $24,990 Price Class |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/05/05/archives/builders-on-li-plan-new-homes-manhasset-hills-tract-to-be-site-of.html |access-date=2021-05-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> This development was built on a {{Convert|24|acre|ha|adj=on}} tract by Barney and Martin Spiegel, consisting of 88 split-level houses, and was constructed on one of the last remaining major, undeveloped tracts of land available in Manhasset Hills.<ref name=":22" />
Salkowitz, along with his partner, Carl Heimberger, designed the North Shore Towers in Glen Oaks, Queens, in 1971.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Hadley |first=Fred |date=August 2015 |title=Architect's NST Site Plan |work=Tower Times |volume=20 |issue=8 |page=7 |url=https://issuu.com/towertimes/docs/tower_times_august_2015 |access-date=2024-04-01 |via=issuu.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Oser |first=Alan S. |date=June 11, 1976 |title=About Real Estate; North Shore's Monument to Superluxury |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1976/06/11/76401790.html?pageNumber=20 |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |page=20 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1988, Salkowitz closed his firm. Heimberger continued working as an architect, eventually founding Heimberger & Seidman.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Shaman |first=Diana |date=November 22, 1998 |title=Commercial Property / Long Island; Demand Spurs Construction of Spec Office Buildings |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1998/11/22/915343.html?pageNumber=280 |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}</ref>
=== Death === Salkowitz died on January 7, 1998, aged 89.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=January 7, 1998 |title=Salkowitz, Abraham |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1998/01/07/issue.html |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}</ref>
=== Personal life === Salkowitz was Jewish and was a member of Temple Beth Sholom – a Conservative synagogue that he designed – in East Hills, New York.<ref name=":8" /> He was married to his wife, Fae, who predeceased him. They had four children and several grandchildren.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 30, 1997 |title=Salkowitz, Fae |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1997/11/30/issue.html |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}</ref> For many years, they lived at 151 Westwood Circle in East Hills – a home which he designed as part of the Westwood at Roslyn development.<ref name=":0" />
== Notable works == * Lake Success Shopping Center – North New Hyde Park, New York (1953)<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> * North Shore Towers – Queens, New York (1971)<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":1" />
== See also == * Manoug Exerjian * Frank Genese * Henry Johanson * Stanley H. Klein
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