Edgar J. Moeller

Who was Edgar J. Moeller?

Edgar Joachim Moeller was an early twentieth-century American architect who partnered with Harry Mulliken to build several apartment hotels in New York City. The partnership's Beaux-Arts style is distinguishable and makes a similarly broad use of architectural terra cotta set around flat brick.

Born in New York in 1874, Moeller graduated from Columbia University's School of Arts with a Bachelor of Philosophy, course in Architecture, in 1895. Although two years younger, Moeller graduated in the same class as his future partner with whom he joined around 1902. Moeller later was elected head of the Columbia Alumni Federation in 1921 and re-elected in the following year. He was also a member of the Board of Governor's of the Columbia University Club, the Real Estate Board of New York, the New York Athletic Club, the Norwalk Yacht Club, and the St. George's Snowshoe Club of Montreal.

His parents were of German ancestry and both the 1900 and 1930 census revealed he was unmarried but living in Manhattan with his two younger and also unmarried sisters, Hildegard and Selma. His profession was listed already as architect in 1900. Although he moved East 84th Street by the 1930 census, his 1917 draft registration card shows him living at 319 West 75th Street, very near to where his and his partner's projects were concentrated.