serving from 1959 to 1963; he was a trustee of the Lavanburg Foundation, Vice President of the Citizen's Housing & Planning Council of New York, and a member of the Housing Committee, and Chairman of the Planning Committee of New Castle, New York. In addition, he was a president of the Architectural League of New York, president of the Municipal American Society, New York City, and a member of the American Institute of Planners, the American Society of Planning Officials, and the National Association of Housing Officials. Selected designs (all in New York City unless otherwise indicated) The New York Telephone Company Building, aka the Barclay-Vesey Building and now the Verizon Building (1922–26); damaged in the September 11 attacks and later partially converted to residential condos Western Union Building, now 60 Hudson Street (1928–1930) Irving Trust Building, now One Wall Street (1928–1931) New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building, Newark (1929) Salvation Army Headquarters, New York, NY (1929–1930) New York Telephone Company Long Island Headquarters, 105 Willoughby Street (1929–1930), Brooklyn, NY, now converted to the BellTel Lofts (2006) Verizon Building (c. 1930s), 212 West 18th Street, in 2012 converted to residential condominiums under the name "Walker Tower." New York Telephone Building, 425 West 50th Street, (1930) in 2013 converted to residential condominiums under the name "Stella Tower," named for Walker's wife. Times Square Building, Rochester, New York (1930) AT&T Long Distance Building, 32 Sixth Avenue (1930–1932) AT&T Pavilion, General Electric Pavilion, Borden Pavilion, Petroleum Pavilion, New York World's Fair (1939) Charles Hayden Memorial Library, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1946–1951) References Notes Sources External links "Ralph Walker: Architect of the Century" 20th-century American architects 1889 births 1973 deaths Art Deco architects Architects from Waterbury, Connecticut Architects from New York City Architects from Providence, Rhode Island Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Military personnel from Connecticut Fellows of the American Institute of Architects Presidents of the American Institute of Architects Classical High School alumni 1973 suicides Recipients of the AIA Gold Medal