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Many of his Minnesota buildings are still standing including more than a dozen private residences (especially those on on St. The First Division Monument President's Park Washington D. Gilbert was one of the first celebrity architects in America designing skyscrapers in New York City and Cincinnati campus buildings at Oberlin College and the University of Texas state capitols in Minnesota and West Virginia the support towers of the George Washington Bridge various railroad stations (including the New Haven Union Station) and the United States Supreme Court building in Washington D.

which he disliked. His design of the new Supreme Court building (1935) with its classical lines and small size contrasted sharply with the very large modernist Federal buildings going up along the National Mall in Washington D. ".