Sigmund Nesselroth

Sigmund Nesselroth (born August 16, 1894 in Budapest, Hungary; died July 1965 in Santa Monica, California) was an architect practicing in Birmingham from about 1924 to 1930.

Nesselroth earned his architecture degree from Harvard University in 1916, having already worked as a draftsman for Slee and Bryson, Architects of Brooklyn, New York. He won a $50 prize at Harvard for his "design for a clock suspended or supported on an extension wall over a jeweler's shop".

He was employed by the Alabama Power Company in 1924 as an in-house architect to perform design studies for a proposed centralized office building. When the utility contracted with Warren, Knight and Davis to serve as design architects for what became the 1925 Alabama Power Building, they asked the firm to employ Nesselroth as an associate.

Shortly after completion of that project, Nesselrothe opened his own practice, which peaked with the design for the massive Hassinger Castle on Carlisle Road, completed in 1929. In 1927 he was secretary of the American Business Club in Birmingham.

In the 1930s Nesselroth moved to Hollywood, California and took a job with the art department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. He was one of the numerous artists in the department who contributed to such visually groundbreaking films as The Thief of Bagdad and The Wizard of Oz.

References

• "Nesselroth won architect's prize." (March 8, 1916) The Harvard Crimson
• Schnorrenberg, John M. (1999) Remembered Past, Discovered Future: The Alabama Architecture of Warren Knight & Davis, 1906-1961. Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art. ISBN 0931394430
• Adams, Cathy Criss (2002) Worthy of Remembrance: A History of Redmont. Birmingham: Redmont Park Historic District Foundation/EBSCO Media ISBN 0971784000