About The Architect

E. Carleton Granbery was born in Brooklyn Heights, NY in 1913. He graduated from Yale University in 1935 and then went on to the Yale School of Architecture, where he received a Master of Architecture degree in 1938. From 1941 to 1945, he served in the United States Navy, spending much of the time with the Construction Battalions (Seabees) in the South Pacific.

In 1945 E. Carleton Granbery opened his office in the building located at 112 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT where he continued to practice until his retirement. His wife Diana Granbery, also an architect, was associated with him throughout his years of practice. Between 1960 and 1970, George A. Cash, a former employee, joined Granbery as a partner. During this period, the firm was known as Granbery / Cash and Associates.

Granbery’s practice was primarily residential. However, he designed many successful educational and institutional buildings. Among his best known buildings are the Foote School, on Loomis Place in New Haven, CT, a combination of long rectangular brick buildings along side other structures of angled roof lines with walls of glass.  Other notable projects are The Parish House at the Christ Church on Broadway in New Haven, CT,  The Melissa Jones School in Guilford, CT.  He also designed several housing projects for the city of New Haven.

Granbery was a member of the National Academy and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He lived in Guilford, CT and also maintained a vacation residence in Vermont. E. Carleton Granbery passed in 1998 at the age of 85.

Following her husband's death, Diana Granbery gave her husband's drawings to the New Haven Museum and Historical Society.