N. Lester Troast (1899–1958)"N. Lester Troast (1899-1958)". http://public.aia.org/. n.d. Web. was an American architect from Sitka and Juneau, Alaska, who was one of the first professional architects to practice in Alaska.
Life and career N. Lester Troast was born on July 20, 1899 in Bergen County, New Jersey. He began his career in the 1920s, as a teacher at Sitka's Sheldon Jackson School. Circa 1930, he left the school and established an architect's office in Sitka. At that time, he was noted as Alaska's only professional architect.Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner 28 July 1930: 8. Later that year he moved his office to Juneau, the largest city in the then-territory. He quickly associated with William A. Manley, who would become a partner in N. Lester Troast & Associates in 1935. Manley was sent to Anchorage in late 1937 to open an office for the firm in that city.Alaska Miner 10 May 1938: 11. Troast moved to New Jersey, and Manley opened his own Anchorage office in 1941.
In New Jersey, Troast lived in Clifton, and was associated with the family firm, the Mahoney-Troast Construction Company, headquartered in Passaic.
William Manley would go on to have a notable career as the senior partner in the Anchorage firm of Manley & Mayer.
Works N. Lester Troast, before 1935 1929 - Sage Memorial Building, Sheldon Jackson School, Sitka, Alaska"Sage Building". http://hcap.artstor.org/. n.d. Web. 1930 - Eielson Memorial Building, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska Completed in 1940 by the H. B. Foss Company. 1932 - St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Alterations), 611 Lincoln St, Sitka, Alaska.Hoagland, Alison K. Buildings of Alaska. 1993. 1933 - Mayflower School, St Anns Ave, Douglas, Alaska. 1988. 1935 - Original buildings, Matanuska Valley Colony, Palmer, AlaskaAlanen, Arnold R. "Midwesterners in the Matanuska Valley: Colonizing Rural Alaska during the 1930s". People, Power, Places: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture. Ed. Sally McMurry and Annmarie Adams. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. In association with David Williams of Washington, DC. 1935 - U. S. Federal Building (Old), Front St & Federal Way, Nome, AlaskaWestern Architect and Engineer 1935: 71. With Gilbert Stanley Underwood of Los Angeles.Hoagland, Alison K. Buildings of Alaska. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
N. Lester Troast & Associates, 1935-1941 1935 - Decker Building, 231 S Franklin St, Juneau, Alaska"231 S. Franklin Street". http://www.juneau.org/. n.d. Web. 1935 - Juneau Motor Building, 2 Marine Way, Juneau, Alaska"1 February 1980 issue". http://www.juneau.org/. n.d. Web. Burned. 1936 - Alaska Electric Light and Power Building, 134 N Franklin St, Juneau, Alaska 1936 - Alaska Governor's Mansion (Remodeling), 716 Calhoun St, Juneau, AlaskaLoussac-Sogn Building NRHP Nomination. 1998. 1937 - Douglas City Hall, 1016 3rd St, Douglas, Alaska"Douglas City Hall Blueprints 1937". http://www.juneau.org/. 6 June 2015. Demolished. 1938 - Bunkhouse, Independence Mines, Palmer, Alaska 1938 - Shrine of St. Thérèse, 21425 Glacier Hwy, Juneau, Alaska 1940 - Howard Romig House, 440 L St, Anchorage, AlaskaSouth Addition Historic Context Statement & Building Survey. 2012.
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