Alfred Easton Poor (May 24, 1899 – January 13, 1988) was an American architect noted particularly for buildings and projects in New York City and in Washington, D.C., for the U.S. government.
[2][3] Poor served as the president of the National Academy of Design in New York from 1966 to 1977, organizing its 150th anniversary in 1975.
Along with fellow New York architect Robert P. Rogers, Poor won the open international design competition for the Wright Brothers National Memorial in 1928.
His projects include the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building,[4][7] the Queens County Courthouse and prison in Kew Gardens,[4][8] the Home Insurance Company Building,[9][10] and the 40-acre Red Hook housing projects.
[12] According to his obituary in The New York Times, he also "designed dozens of branch offices in Manhattan and abroad for the Chemical, National City and Marine Midland banks" and "designed a number of Long Island country homes.