Grad Associates formerly Grad Partnership and Frank Grad & Sons, was an architectural firm based in

Newark, New Jersey Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.Stanley Theater and Beth Israel Hospital, to the Neo-Classical

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, to the

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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

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facilities.

Notable buildings

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including the Pegasus Restaurant *

Harborside Financial Center Harborside is an office complex in the Exchange Place district of Jersey City, New Jersey located on the Hudson Waterfront. All the buildings are owned and managed by Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, with the exception of Harborside Plaza 10, whi ...

Seton Hall University School of Law Seton Hall University School of Law is the law school of Seton Hall University, and is located in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Seton Hall Law is the only private law school in New Jersey, and, according to the ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranking ...

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Continental Airlines Terminal and

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* 1180 Raymond Boulevard, originally the Lefcourt Building *

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in Washington, D.C. * Stanley Theater/Newark Gospel Tabernacle *

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on Central Park * General Electric Regional Distribution Center,

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* Mt. Airy Associates I, II, III, IV, V Bernards Township, New Jersey * Nabisco World Headquarters - Planting,

* New Jersey Bell Corporate Data Center II, Freehold, New Jersey * Overlook Farms,

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* Park 80 Addition, Saddlebrook, New Jersey * Prudential Eastern Home Office, Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey * Prudential Property & Casualty Insurance Co,

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* Prudential Supply Processing Center,

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* Rockaway Farms,

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* Springfield Farms,

* Two University Plaza,

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* Windemere at Hanover,

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* Xerox Corporation - Parking, Webster, New York *

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References

External links

* * * {{Cite book, last=Grad, first=Bernard, title=Adventure into Architecture, publisher=Arco Publishing Company, year=1968, page
189
isbn=0-668-01763-5, url=https://archive.org/details/adventureintoarc0000grad/page/189 Architecture firms of the United States Architecture firms based in New Jersey Defunct architecture firms based in New Jersey Design companies established in 1906 Companies based in Newark, New Jersey 1906 establishments in New Jersey Design companies disestablished in 2010 2010 disestablishments in New Jersey