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Risse oversaw the installation of the New York City Exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition, and was a member of the International Jury of Engineers at Paris in 1900. He retired to private practice in Manhattan upon the elimination of the Board of Public Improvements in 1902. Risse died at the age of 74 in the Bronx, and was buried in Woodlawn ...
Name Louis A. Risse Event Type Death Event Date 10 Mar 1925 Event Place Bronx, New York, New York, United States Gender Male Age 74 Marital Status Married Race White Occupation Civil Engineer Birth Date 28 Mar 1850 Birthplace France Burial Date 13 Mar 1925 Cemetery Woodlawn Cemetery Father's Name Nicholas Risse...
A French immigrant and life-long civil servant by the name of Louis Aloys Risse was named its Chief Engineer. Risse, who spoke little English and had moved to The Bronx from his native St. Avoid, near the Franco-German border, was a visionary whose ideas earned him the moniker “crazy Frenchman.”
2 days ago · It was conceived in 1890 by Louis Aloys Risse, a French immigrant and chief topographical engineer of New York City. Since its opening in 1909, it has become “ the Bronx’s most famous street...
17.5 cubic feet (19 boxes) The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence mostly regarding bids, payments, lists of coins sent on approval, and other matters having to do with the buying and selling of coins, including about twelve cubic feet of letters received by the firm S.H. & H. Chapman, still folded and in envelopes, mostly arranged alphabetically by the correspondent’s last ...
Mar 18, 2009 · Conceived in 1890 as a way of connecting Manhattan to the northern Bronx, the Grand Concourse was designed by Louis Aloys Risse, an Alsatian-born engineer, and opened in November 1909. To honor...
May 30, 2024 · The Grand Concourse is also known as the “Champs-Élysées of the Bronx, which is what the road’s French designer, Louis Aloys Risse, intended when he designed it. Later, Risse would work for...
