{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2011}} {{Use American English|date=May 2026}} '''Robert H. Rheinlander''' (1880–1961) was an American architect, contractor and structural engineer from Glens Falls, New York.
==Career== Robert Rheinlander was based in Glens Falls, New York and designed and or built many well known and large buildings in the northern New York State area. He was a member of the Society of American Registered Architects.<ref name="jul-07-1961"/> His career was predominantly from 1900 – 1945. Among Rheinlanders achievements, he designed and rebuilt The Sagamore a grand Victorian hotel on Lake George in 1921–1922 after a fire.<ref>''Resort hotels of the Adirondacks: the architecture of a summer paradise'' by Bryant Franklin Tolles June, 2003 page 197</ref>
Robert designed and or built the following buildings which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: * The Cunningham House at 161 Warren Street * The Hoopes House at 153 Warren Street * The Hyde Museum at 169 Warren Street<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Warren/state.html|title=NEW YORK - Warren County |website=National Register of Historical Places|publisher=American Dreams, Inc|accessdate=July 4, 2018}}</ref>
Additionally, he assisted in the designs the Finch Pruyne (Finch Paper) Headquarters building in Glens Falls. Rheinlander also built the Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nymasons.org/site/warren-county/|title = Warren County|date = October 13, 2016}}</ref>
Rheinlander was a former director of the Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Co. and a director of the Tait Paper and Color Industries,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn88075736/1928-08-31/ed-1/seq-3.pdf|title=L.M. Brown Head of Tait Industries|work=Plattsburgh Sentinel|date=August 31, 1928|page=3|accessdate=July 4, 2018}}</ref> later known as Imperial Paper and Color Corp and ultimately owned by Ciba-Geigy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.colorantshistory.org/ImperialColor.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119155550/http://colorantshistory.org/ImperialColor.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=November 19, 2008|title=Imperial Color, Chemical and Paper Corporation|website=ColorantsHistory.Org|accessdate=July 4, 2018}}</ref>
==Personal life== Robert H. Rheinlander was born in 1880. He was a native of North Adams, Massachusetts.<ref name="jul-07-1961">https://newspaperarchive.com/north-adams-transcript-jul-07-1961-p-3/ {{subscription required}}</ref> Rhinelander was a member of the Society of American Registered Architects, a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of Senet Lodge of Masons of Albany and the Albany Sovereign Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons. He was also a member of the Glens Falls First Baptist Church.<ref name="jul-07-1961"/> He married Pauline Dearstyne, daughter of Harvey Rey Dearstyne. They had one son, Robert Rheinlander, and a daughter who went by the nickname "Billie."
Rheinlander died in 1961 and is buried at the Glens Falls Cemetery.<ref name="jul-07-1961"/>
==See Also== *List of American architects
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