Wolfgang Gustav Triest
W.G. Triest | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wolfgang Gustav Triest |
| Died | 1946 |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Children | Willard Gustav Triest Gustav Kenneth Triest Carl Gunther Triest |
| Engineering career | |
| Practice name | Snare & Triest Company Triest Construction Company |
Wolfgang Gustav Triest (c. 1863 – 1946) was an American-born civil engineer. He was the founder of the Triest Construction Company in New York, and had homes in Annapolis, Maryland, and Southampton, Long Island.[1]
Early life
[edit]Wolfgang Gustav Triest, also known as W. G. Triest, was born in New York City, New York.[2]
Career
[edit]In 1898, Frederick Snare and W.G. Triest founded the Snare & Triest Company.[3] The Snare & Triest Company was incorporated in 1900.[4] The Snare & Triest Company was renamed the Frederick Snare Corporation Contracting Engineers in the early 1920s. Around 1921, Snare and Triest agreed to part ways.[5] He continued in heavy construction under the firm, Triest Contracting Corporation, subway and bridge builders of New York.[1]
Triest was involved in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.[6] His company also built part of the subway tunnel on the IND line, part of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel, and the cutoff wall of Merriman Dam in Wawarsing, New York.[1]
Death
[edit]W.G. Triest died in 1946.[1] He was a resident of Great Neck in Nassau County at the time of his death.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Willard G. Triest, 83; Led Building Company". New York Times. June 22, 1989. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ "The People of the State of New York — To Gustav Kenneth Triest - Newspapers.com™". newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
- ^ "American Photo Company photographs of the Port of Havana construction". ufdc.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ^ "The Snake & Triest Company | Marine Link". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ^ 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]
- ^ Mason, J. T. (1986). The Pacific war remembered: an oral history collection . Naval Institute Press.