Gerald P. Allen

Gerald was a fine Boss and friend, he hired me to live on Thorbiskcope for security of his home and property for 14 years. I fell in love with Thorbiskope, that long staircase made me think of Gone With The Wind and the Southern ladies dressed in those big hoop dresses and large brim hats with feathers and flowers. Each year Gerald asked me to take on caring for the 3 acre yard and helping keep the kitchen house cleaned and setting up the property so he could hold business meetings for his...

I am very sad to learn of the passing of Gerald Allen an architect and teacher who I knew in New York for many years. Gerald was a consummate professional and scholar. His interest in the continuation of a dialogue with history informed all his work and his restoration of the wonderful Bethesda Fountain in Central Park started a transformation of the park over many years. His work on the Central Park lights with my other colleague Kent Bloomer restored a period type lighting to the park...

The Allen family was very kind to me as a child. Gerald was a very early friend and going thru High School Alice was of real help from time to time. As I have said, Gerald made the world a little better, so did Alice and her wonderful mother.

I met Gerald in 1978 through a Yale classmate and he told me of his interest in theatre and opera. I invited him to design my production of Joe Orton's Funeral Games, Off-Broadway in March of 1979. He did an outstanding job with simple but brilliantly effective modules that reconfigured for the different settings. It was a collaboration that we both enjoyed enormously and we remained friends throughout the years after. He was a gentleman and a scholar and I will miss his charming company.

Gerald was a close friend and colleague of mine. We worked on several projects together over the years. A brilliant architect! I designed the HVAC system for his home at Thorbiskope. His passing is a great loss to all who knew him! My profound condolences to all of his family!

Sorry I never got to know him better through EHS and classmate at Yale, but he was quiet and so was I. Strange he studied and then practiced architecture, I studied but never practiced. Drawing classes together.

Dear Alice,
I had suspected that Gerald had died, and had a difficult time digging out his obit on the net, I think because I feared what I ultimately found.
My deepest condolences to you and your family. I'm in NYC today, and made the pilgrimage to 25 E. 94th, and then entered his name to find this sad truth
He was a fine, accomplished, generous man.
My best to you,
Brian Jones
www.brianjonesmusic.com

I am sorry to hear this. I met Gerald in Saybrook College at Yale in 1961. He was one of the first people from the south I'd met. I enjoyed talking with him very much. For a while I think he was building a harpsichord in his room.

On behalf of my classmates in the Yale Class of 1964, I extend condolences to Gerald's family and friends. Gerald had many friends in our Class and will be missed. We mourn his passing and will remember him on our Class Website (www.yale64.org), in the March-April 2016 issue of Yale Alumni Magazine, and at a memorial service on campus during our 55th reunion in May 2019. Anthony M. Lavely, Class Secretary