Grad Associates formerly Grad Partnership and Frank Grad & Sons, was an architectural firm based in
Newark, New Jersey
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Newark Symphony Hall
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, to the
Art Deco
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1180 Raymond Boulevard (aka, the Lefcourt Building). Several of Grad's greatest commissions, the YMHA, the Stanley Theater, Beth Israel, and the Lefcourt Building, were for Jewish patrons. In the mid-1930s the name of the firm became Frank Grad & Sons. Grad died in 1968.
His firm, Grad Associates was continued by his sons after Grad died. Grad Associates peaked in the 1980s when there were over 130 architects working there, but closed in the winter of 2010, a victim of the Great Recession. The firm added new partners in 1966, and became the Grad Partnership. In 1990, the firm became GRAD Associates, P.A. At the time the firm closed the managing partners were Allen Trousdale and Vasant Kshirsagar. Grad was one of the first large firms in the New York region to invest in extensive
computer-aided design
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facilities.
Notable buildings
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Izod Center
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including the Pegasus Restaurant
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Harborside Financial Center
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One Newark Center
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Newark Legal Center
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Newark Liberty International Airport
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One Newark Center
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University Heights, Newark, New Jersey
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James V. Forrestal Building
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in Washington, D.C.
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Essex House New York
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Newark Symphony Hall
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Tewksbury Township, New Jersey
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* Springfield Farms,
Tewksbury Township, New Jersey
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Essex County College
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History
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Newark, New Jersey
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