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George C. Clarke

Best known for a detailed 1910 paper on the site of Pennsylvania Railroad’s New York terminal station, this civil engineer wrote about one of the era’s biggest infrastructure projects. The surviving record online is sparse, but his work points to deep involvement with major early-20th-century engineering practice.

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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910

by George C. Clarke

About the author

Available sources identify him as George C. Clarke, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the author of The Site of the Terminal Station, published in Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, volume LXVIII, in 1910.

That paper is connected with the New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, placing his known work in the middle of a landmark period of rail and terminal construction in New York City. The material that is easy to confirm online centers mainly on this publication rather than on personal details, so a fuller biographical sketch is hard to verify from the currently available sources.

Even so, the surviving publication suggests an engineer trusted to document and analyze a major public works project with care and technical authority.