GILBERT, CASS (I , American architect, was born at Zanesville (0.), on Nov. 24, 1859. He studied at the Massachusetts institute of technology and in 1883 began his career as an architect in St. Paul, but later moved to New York. He became perhaps most widely known as the architect of the Woolworth building in New York, which has 57 storeys and is 792ft. in height, and, with the exception of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, was, at the time, the tallest structure in the world. He designed the Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul; the Endicott building, the Dayton avenue church and St. Clement's Episcopal church in St. Paul; the U.S. custom house and the Union club, New York; the Brazer building and the Suffolk Savings Bank, Boston; Art building and Festival Hall (for the Louisiana Pur chase Exposition), and the Central Public Library, St. Louis; Ives Memorial Library, New Haven (Conn.) ; Public Library, Detroit. He drew the plans for the University of Minnesota and for the University of Texas. He was appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the Council of the Fine Arts; and by President Taft a member of the National Commission of Fine Arts; being reappointed by President Wilson. In 1926 he was ap pointed design architect for the proposed bridge over the Hudson river at New York city, and in the same year was elected presi dent of the National Academy of Design.