Albert Olszewski Von Herbulis
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Adalbert Olszewski Von Herbulis | |
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| Born | April 23, 1861 |
| Died | April 14, 1928 (aged 66) |
| Occupation | Architect |
Adalbert Olszewski "Albert" Von Herbulis (April 23, 1861 – April 14, 1928) was an architect who practiced in Washington, D.C., who is best known for having designed the Cathedral of St. Helena in Helena, Montana.
Born Adalbert Olszewski in Budapest, Hungary, he changed his surname to Von Herbulis and kept Olszewski as his middle name. He graduated from the Military Academy of Vienna and the Polytechnic University of Vienna, after which he migrated to the United States.[1] Von Herbulis immigrated to the United States sometime around 1880. He married Amalie Anne Wittke on November 26, 1884, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.[2]
Career in America
He practiced architecture for a short time in Scranton, Pennsylvania, after which he moved to Washington, D.C. The Roman Catholic Church, his principal client, engaged him to design numerous ecclesiastical and educational buildings. In 1904, the Catholic Diocese of Ottawa commissioned him to design a new campus plan, a scheme that included eight new buildings, of which only the Arts and Sciences Building was built. Among other works, Von Herbulis designed the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Helena, Montana; the Holy Angels Roman Catholic Academy & School, Buffalo, N.Y.; and Ryan Hall at Georgetown University.
In 1913, while supervising completion of the Blessed Sacrament Academy in Birmingham, Alabama, he opened an office in the Woodward Building and solicited other commissions in the region.[3] His design for a 9-story "Hygeia Building" for medical offices in downtown Birmingham was unrealized,[4] as was much of his Gothic-revival master plan for St. Bernard College in Cullman, Alabama.[5] The Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Florida was his next large commission, which he clad in Alabama freestone quarried in Cullman County.[6]
Von Herbulis suffered a heart attack on the Washington-Virginia Railway on 14 April 1928, and died on the spot. He was buried at St. James Catholic Church in Falls Church, Virginia.[7]
