Showing posts with label American Institute of Architects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Institute of Architects. Show all posts

Friday, August 6, 2021

Poy Gum Lee (Li Jinpei) in Brooklyn and Mineola, New York


Brooklyn Eagle, March 5, 1947
Brooklyn Eagle, March 7, 1947
4–5 room apartment, preferably Brooklyn or Columbia Heights, for architect and family; willing to buy furniture. Write Poy G. Lee, 46 Mulberry St., N.Y. 13.








A photograph of the family in Brooklyn is here. 

Lee’s wife, Pansy Choye, became a naturalized citizen on April 19, 1949. The address on her naturalization card (at Ancestry.com) was 850 Union Street in Brooklyn. The building was a two-family house. The other residents were Mrs. Gomeringer and her son. 

The 1950 Membership Directory of the American Institute of Architects listed Lee’s home address as 850 Union Street, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Eagle, April 27, 1951
Real Estate: Buy Union St. House
Fong Eng, Fong Lum Shee, Sing Leong and Sim Nguey Leong have purchased the two-story two-family dwelling located at 850 Union St., on a plot 19.6 x 90, from Poy G. Lee.













Lee moved to the Long Island village, Mineola, New York. The 1956 American Architects Directory said his address was 299 Saville Road. Lee’s youngest daughter graduated from Mineola High School in 1961. Lee’s three daughters (in birth order), Arlene, Kathreen and Elizabeth, moved to California. The 1962 American Architects Directory said Lee had a residence at 215 Park Row in Manhattan. 




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Friday, August 21, 2015

Yook Yee Wong and the American Institute of Architects

Yook Yee Wong / Huang Yuyu (黄玉瑜) was a Junior member of the American Institute of Architects, which published membership lists in The Annuary. The following pages from The Annuary, 1926 to 1930, were provided by The American Institute of Architects Archives. Special thanks to Nancy Hadley, Assoc. AIA, CA, DAS, and Senior Manager, Archives and Records.
Juniors of The American Institute of Architects
There shall be a class of Juniors whose affiliation with the Institute shall be in accordance with the following provisions of this Article. No other provision of this Constitution and By-laws shall have any application to Juniors except as herein expressly provided.

Any graduate in architecture of a school recognized by the Institute, or any special student in such a school who shall have spent at least two years there, and is recommended by the head of the school, is eligible as a Junior, provided application is made within two years of graduation or completion of his special course.

The Junior affiliation shall expire automatically when the Junior is elected to Chapter associateship, or Institute membership, or when he reaches age of thirty.—By-laws, Art. III, Section 1.





“Y.Y. Wong: An Overseas Chinese Architect”
Guangdong Overseas Chinese Museum
Guangzhou, China
September 2–15, 2015
(Next post on Friday: Poy Gum Lee’s Kimlau Memorial Arch)

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

About the Architect: Poy Gum Lee (Li Jinpei)

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Poy Lee
Age in 1910: 12
Birth Year: abt 1898
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1910: Manhattan Ward 6, New York, New York [32 Mott Street]
Race: Chinese
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Yet Gip Lee
Father's Birthplace: China
Mother's Name: See Min
Mother's Birthplace: California
Household Members:
Name / Age
Yet Gip Lee 47
See Min 31
Kom Loo 13
Poy Lee 12
Foou Lee 6
Hung Pock Lee 4
Soo Hock Lee 2

 World War I Draft Registration Card
Name: Poy Gum Lee
City: Manhattan [32 Mott Street]
County: New York
State: New York
Birth Date: 17 Jan 1900 [Other sources have the day as 14.]
Race: Oriental (Asian)
Draft Board: 94
Age: 18
Occupation: Student, Pratt Institute
Nearest Relative: Lee Yick Dep
Height/Build: Short/Slender
Color of Eyes/Hair: Borwn/Black
Signature: September 9, 1918

American Consular Service
Cerrtificate of Marriage
Name: Poy G Lee
Age: 26
Birth Year: abt 1900
Birth Place: New York City, New York
Spouse’s Name: Pansy Choye
Spouse’s Age: 21
Spouse’s Birth Year: abt 1905
Spouse’s Birth Place: Shanghai, China
Marriage Date: 18 Sep 1926
Marriage Place: Cantonese Baptist Church, Shanghai, China
Official: Rev. Yeushong Lau
Consular Location: Shanghai, China

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Men of Shanghai and North China
George Nellist, Editor
The Oriental Press, 1933
pages 209, 211 and 212

















The American Institute of Architects
Architect
Firm

 American Architects Directory
First Edition
R.R. Bowker, 1956
page 324

American Architects Directory
Second Edition
R.R. Bowker, 1962
page 411
(Updated August 28, 2015; next post September 20: Yee Kee, Crayon Artist)
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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Yook Yee Wong in Boston and at MIT

Yook Yee Wong
(Huang Yuyu / 黄玉瑜)

1920 Boston Directory
Wong Yookee draftsman 122 Ames bldg rms 699 Wash
(Coolidge & Shattuck, architects)
detail, page 1687

(click images to enlarge)

Tufts College Bulletin December, 1920
Annual Catalogue 1920–1921
Catalogue of Tufts College 1920–1921
Bromfield-Pearson School
Wong, Yook Yee ce [Civil and Structural Engineering] Boston

 1922 Boston Directory 
Wong Yook-Yee draftsman 122 Ames bldg res 32 Tyler
(Coolidge & Shattuck, architects)
detail, page 1775

Boston Globe
July 23, 1922
Chinatown Proud of It’s Boy Scouts—and It Has Good Reason for It
“...Y.Y. Wong is the physical instructor....”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports of the President and Treasurer
June 30, 1923
The F.W. Chandler Prizes
Triglyph Fraternity Prizes

1923 Technique
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rifle Club

Architectural Society

Wong, Yook Yee, 1924, 95 Wing Lock St., Hong Kong, China

 1924 Technique
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chinese Students’ Club

Architectural Society

Wong, Yook Yee, 1924, Hong Kong, China

1925 Technique
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wong, Yook Yee, 1925, 95 Wing Lock St., Hong Kong, China

American Institute of Architects
Member, 1925

Boston Globe
June 16, 1925
Complete List of Degrees Conferred by Technology

After graduation, Wong resumed work at
Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, architects;
one of his co-workers was Edward Durell Stone;
Stone and Wong worked on the Fabyan Building.

F.D.S. [Full Scale Drawing]
Number 86
1st Floor Balustrade
Y.Y.W. [Yook Yee Wong]
September 2, 1926

 3/4" Scale
Number 95
Malleable Cast Iron Bal Basement 2nd Floor
Y.Y. W. [Yook Yee Wong]
September 27, 1926

 1928 Boston Directory
Wong Yook-Yee draftsman 122 Ames bldg res 11 Hanson
(Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, architects)
detail, page 2030

1929 Boston Directory
Wong Yook-Yee draftsman 122 Ames bldg res 11 Hanson
(Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, architects)
detail, page 2065

U.S. Department of Labor
Form 432
March 11, 1929

March 18, 1929
Chinese Exclusion Act Case File
interview excerpt

March 24, 1929
Yook Yee Wong and family departed for China;
going by rail from Boston to Vancouver,
then by steamship from Vancouver to China.

detail, March 25 letter

In China, Wong would meet Shinn-hong Howard Jee
and collaborate on a capital plan for Nanjing.

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