D. Everett Waid

As chief architect for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (New York City), he and his partner designed the Home Office Building at 11 Madison Avenue along with dozens of other commercial, religious, residential and academic structures.

This led to his design of hospitals in Alaska and Puerto Rico as well as schools in the western United States and Cuba.

During World War I, Waid served as deputy director of production and as one of the executives of the organization of architects that designed and built housing structures for some twenty-five shipbuilding yards.

[3] Waid's career reached its pinnacle when he became chief architect for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and designed, with his business partner Harvey Wiley Corbett, the Home Office Building at 11 Madison Avenue and now known as the Metropolitan Life North Building.

In stark contrast with his early work, the modern office building would eschew, "extraneous ornament or embellishment which has not a rational meaning and practical use" and that it would be "unhampered by archaeological precedent.

He endowed a fine arts department at Monmouth College in memory of his first wife Eva Clark Waid (January 1869 – June 1929).

The Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings was designed in Ionic Greek Revival style by Waid and built in 1897. (Photo from 1903)
Monmouth College Auditorium designed by Waid and built in 1897. (Engraving, Old English Chapel/Gothic Revival)
The Umbria, built 1910–1911 in the Italian Renaissance style; Northwest Corner West End Avenue and 82nd Street, New York City
Elevations for Competition Design for U.S. Post Office in the Ionic Greek Revival style, New Haven, Connecticut submitted by Waid (1913, not built)
Mount McGregor Sanitarium built largely in the American Craftsman style, Wilton, New York
The Beaux-Arts style Wellington Building designed by Waid in 1924. It is now occupied the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Mosaic ceiling in lobby of Wellington Building (1924)
Metropolitan Life North Building, New York City (Art Deco)
The Peninsula New York hotel at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street in Manhattan, New York, seen in December 2022. Pictured is the Fifth Avenue facade of which the ground floor storefronts and numerous interiors on the first and second floor were redesigned by Waid in 1938.