Alfred Eichberg

{{Short description|American architect (1859–1921)}} [[File:New Hanover County, NC, courthouse IMG 4363.JPG|thumb|New Hanover County Courthouse]] [[File:GA Brunswick Old Town HD city hall01.jpg|thumb|Old Brunswick City Hall]] '''Alfred Salom Eichberg''' (August 23, 1859 – May 15, 1921) was an architect in the U.S. state of Georgia.<ref name=eich>[http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000295 Alfred S. Eichberg] North Carolina Architects & Builders</ref> He designed the F. Rheinstein and Company Building (North Carolina), the New Hanover County Courthouse (North Carolina),<ref name=eich/> and Brunswick City Hall (1889). He was Jewish.<ref name=eich/>

He partnered with Calvin Fay (formerly of Sholl & Fay) to form Fay and Eichberg (1881–1888).<ref>{{cite web | title=Fay and Eichberg | url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/fay-and-eichberg/ }}</ref> They designed small buildings for the International Cotton Exposition (1881) in Atlanta and obtained larger commissions in Atlanta and Savannah including the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Telfair Hospital, and Central of Georgia Railway building (now called Clark Hall).<ref name=eich/> He established his own firm in Savannah, Georgia.<ref name=eich/> He employed Hyman Witcover as a draftsman and then partnered with him.<ref name=eich/> He is buried at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta.<ref name=eich/>

==Work== *Savannah Powder Magazine (1898) with Hyman Witcover<ref>{{cite web | title=That's So Savannah: That secret castle in the woods was once filled with explosives | url=https://www.savannahnow.com/story/lifestyle/2021/04/21/savannah-powder-magazine-historic-building-gunpowder-dynamite/7305301002/ }}</ref>

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