From the introduction: If anyone ever embodied the great Cass Gilbert’s definition of an architect, it was Henry L. A. Jekel. From his seventeenth year to his death in 1960, he engaged architecture “with enthusiastic interest in every detail,” adopting it as his muse and his art form. Given his commitment and talent, Jekel emerged rapidly from the venerable apprenticeship ranks of Buffalo, New York, and New York City, placing him in the cohort of some of the greats of architecture at the turn of the twentieth century.