Alfred T. Fellheimer

Who was Alfred T. Fellheimer?

Alfred T. Fellheimer was an American architect who was lead architect for New York Grand Central Terminal and Cincinnati Union Terminal.

Felheimer was born in Chicago. He graduated in 1895 from the University of Illinois School of Architecture where he had studied in Nathan Clifford Ricker.

In 1898, he joined the firm of Frost & Granger. In 1903 he joined Reed and Stem. As a junior partner he was lead architect in Reed & Stem's partnership with Warren and Wetmore for the design of Grand Central starting in 1903. Following the death Charles Reed in 1911 he became a named partner of Stem & Fellheimer which designed Union Station in 1913. The firm became Fellheimer & Long with Allen H. Stem Associated Architects in 1914 and designed the Morris Park in the Bronx.

In 1923 he and an associate, Steward Wagner, from the earlier firm formed Fellheimer & Wagner and designed Union Station and Union Station. The firm completed the Cincinnati station in 1933. In 1939 the firm had a commission to do a complete overhaul of the CBS Studio Building.