Frederick Snare Corporation
| Formerly | Snare & Triest Company |
|---|---|
| Company type | Construction engineering |
| Industry | Construction |
| Founded | 1898 in Philadelphia |
| Founders | Frederick Snare W.G. Triest |
Frederick Snare Corporation, formerly known as the Snare & Triest Company, was an American engineering and construction firm.
History
[edit]The Snare & Triest Company was established in the late 1890s. Frederick Snare and Wolfgang Gustav Triest, a civil engineer active in bridge construction, created the Snare & Triest Company in 1898.[1] The Snare & Triest Company was incorporated in 1900, with Snare as the President.[2] It was a privately held company with offices in Philadelphia, New York, Havana, Lima, and Columbia.
Among the engineering and construction projects completed by the Frederick Snare Corporation were pier building, constructing terminals, developing power plants, planning bridges, building sugar mills, and handling complex foundation projects.[3] Around 1912, Snare's son Frederick Snare Jr. joined the firm, eventually becoming an executive of the company in 1919.[4]
The company set up a Cuban headquarters and built much of Havana's early infrastructure, including highways and railways. In 1912, the Frederick Snare Company built the main railway terminal in Havana, the Havana Central railway station. By the mid-1910s, the Snare & Triest Company was constructing streetcar railways in Havana.[5] The company was engaged in the work of constructing Havana's Víbora Sub Station in 1918.[6]
The Snare & Triest Company became the Frederick Snare Corporation Contracting Engineers in the early 1920s. By about 1921, Frederick Snare and W.G. Triest decided to go separate ways.[7] In New York, W.G. Triest established the firm, Triest Contracting Corporation, subway and bridge builders of New York.[8]
In the 1930s, the Frederick Snare Corporation of New York City won the bid to build the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.[9]
In July 1940, the firm was awarded a building contract by the Navy for its role in the development of a naval operating base at Guantánamo Bay.[10]
In 1946, the construction of the national sports stadium, Estadio Latinoamericano, in Havana was executed by the Snare company and Cuban architect Max Borges Jr.[11]
Projects
[edit]Construction
[edit]- Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal (1908)
- Battery Maritime Building (1909)
- Havana Central railway station (1912)
- Nicaro Nickel Processing Plant (1942)[12]
- Estadio Latinoamericano (1946)
- Habana Hilton (1958)
- West Side Highway
Bridge engineering
[edit]- North Market Street Bridge (1928)
- Triborough Bridge
- Bronx–Whitestone Bridge
- Rip Van Winkle Bridge
- Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
- Newburgh–Beacon Bridge
- Severn River Bridge[13]
Waterfront facilities
[edit]- Southwark Municipal Piers
- Chelsea Piers
References
[edit]- ^ "American Photo Company photographs of the Port of Havana construction". ufdc.ufl.edu. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
- ^ "The Snake & Triest Company". MarineLink.[unreliable source?]
- ^ "CUBA: Snare Jubilee". Time. 17 February 1936. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ^ "Frederick Snare, Jr. Dead in Englewood - Newspapers.com™". The News. 28 November 1942. p. 10. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ^ "Construction of streetcar railways in Havana, Cuba by the Snare & Triest Company". digitalcollections.library.miami.edu. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
- ^ "Construction of the Víbora Terminal in Havana, Cuba". digitalcollections.library.miami.edu. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
- ^ Wolf, Donald (2010). Crossing the Hudson: Historic Bridges and Tunnels of the River. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4950-7. Project MUSE book 13606.[page needed]
- ^ "Willard G. Triest, 83; Led Building Company". The New York Times. 22 June 1989.
- ^ "The Rip Van Winkle Bridge | New York State Bridge Authority". nysba.ny.gov. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ^ "Shut Guantanamo Bay". tribunemag.co.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ^ Lipman, Jana K. (2009). Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25539-5. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctt1pnm8n.[page needed]
- ^ "Republicans Suppress Diary of Nickel Plant - Newspapers.com™". The Orlando Sentinel. 10 August 1956. p. 33. Retrieved 20 May 2024.