Foster & Creighton

Foster & Creighton
FormerlyFoster and Creighton Co.,
Foster and Creighton Company,
Foster–Creighton Company
Founded1885
FounderWilbur Fisk Foster,
Robert T. Creighton
HeadquartersNashville, Tennessee, U.S.

Foster & Creighton was a construction and civil engineering firm of Nashville, Tennessee. It has been known also as the Foster-Creighton Company, as the Foster and Creighton Co., and as Foster and Creighton Company.

It was founded in 1885 by Wilbur F. Foster (engineer) and Robert T. Creighton, who had both served as City Engineer of Nashville. The firm did a lot of contract work for government civil engineering projects. A third partner was bought out, early on, and the firm was known as Foster–Creighton Company.[1]

A number of its works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2][3]

List of work

List of works by Foster & Creighton
Year Name City State Notes
1888 Lebanon Road Stone Arch Bridge Nashville Tennessee NRHP-listed[2]
1896 Replica of the Parthenon at Centennial Park Nashville Tennessee excavation, stone foundations and concrete slabs, superintendent / engineers W.F. Foster and R. T. Creighton[4]
1913 Lock No. 3 Tennessee started after 1893, for the Army Corps of Engineers[1]
1922 Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville Tennessee now FirstBank Stadium, for which the firm was project manager[5]
1924 Shelbyville Hydroelectric Station Shelbyville Tennessee NRHP-listed[2][6]
1925 Bennie–Dillon Building Nashville Tennessee NRHP-listed[2]
1925 Columbia Hydroelectric Station Columbia Tennessee located at Riverside Park, NRHP-listed[2]
1927 Lillard's Mill Hydroelectric Station Milltown Tennessee NRHP-listed[2][7]
1928 Guildfor Dudley Sr. and Anne Dallas House Forest Hills Tennessee NRHP-listed[2][8]
1929 Parthenon Restoration at Centennial Park Nashville Tennessee superintendent / engineers J.W. Wright, George Douglas Jr., Pete Tuberville[9]
1929 Thomas Jefferson Hotel Birmingham Alabama for which the firm was the contractor
1943 Building Construction AEDC Plant superintendents / engineers Ben F. Fite, H. F. Campbell, A. C. Columbo, George Roden, Homer Crowder[10]
1957 Electro-Manganese Plant, Foote Mineral Co. Knoxville Tennessee superintendents / engineers George Rosen, William H. Price Jr., C. E. Barber.[11]
1957 St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing Knoxville Tennessee superintendents / engineers George Roden, William H. Price Jr.[12]
1960 Hospital Oak Ridge Tennessee superintendents / engineers William H. Price Jr., George Rosen[13]
1961 Cyclotron Facilities Buildings Oak Ridge Tennessee superintendents / engineers George Roden, William H. Price Jr.[14]
1964 Laboratory Building Atomic Energy Commission Oak Ridge Tennessee superintendent William H. Price Jr.[15]
1966 Saint Mary's Hospital Annunciation Wing Knoxville Tennessee superintendent William H. Price Jr.[16]
1967 Paris Road Bridge New Orleans Louisiana also known as the Green Bridge
1971 Repairs to Parthenon at Centennial Park Nashville Tennessee superintendent George Douglas Jr.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b "Survey Report for Historic Bridges: Chapter 3-Bridge Companies" (PDF). Tennessee Department of Transportation. pp. 25–26.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  3. ^ Pre-TVA Hydroelectric Power Development in Tennessee MPS
  4. ^ The Foster-Creighton Record, Projects Completed by Foster & Creighton Company and Subsidiaries - since 1885, Wilbur F. Creighton, 17 December 1989, Page 1
  5. ^ Prestressed Concrete Institute (1983). "PCI journal". PCI journal. 28 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "Shelbyville Hydroelectric Station". NPGallery, Digital Asset Management System.
  7. ^ "Lillard's Mill Hydroelectric Station". NPGallery, Digital Asset Management System.
  8. ^ "Dudley, Guildfor, Sr. and Anne Dallas, House". NP Gallery.
  9. ^ The Foster-Creighton Record, Projects Completed by Foster & Creighton Company and Subsidiaries - since 1885, Page 7
  10. ^ The Foster-Creighton Record, Projects Completed by Foster & Creighton Company and Subsidiaries - since 1885, page 15
  11. ^ The Foster-Creighton Record, Projects Completed by Foster & Creighton Company and Subsidiaries - since 1885, page 22
  12. ^ The Foster-Creighton Record, Projects Completed by Foster & Creighton Company and Subsidiaries - since 1885, page 22
  13. ^ The Foster-Creighton Record, Projects Completed by Foster & Creighton Company and Subsidiaries - since 1885, page 25
  14. ^ The Foster-Creighton Record, Projects Completed by Foster & Creighton Company and Subsidiaries - since 1885, page 25
  15. ^ The Foster-Creighton Record, Projects Completed by Foster & Creighton Company and Subsidiaries - since 1885, page 27
  16. ^ The Foster-Creighton Record, Projects Completed by Foster & Creighton Company and Subsidiaries - since 1885, page 28
  17. ^ The Foster-Creighton Record, Projects Completed by Foster & Creighton Company and Subsidiaries - since 1885, page 30


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