[5] It is also home to the world's largest free-flying American flag and was featured on the History Channel series Modern Marvels.

Case was named after his third great-grandfather, William Montgomery, who was a colonel in the America Revolutionary War.

One hundred and fifty one years later, Case erected the George Washington Bridge at the same location.

After graduation, he married Maybelle Betsy McConnell (b.1880—d.1945) in 1910[8] and began working with Ralph Modjeski on the Columbia River Railroad Bridge, followed by several more projects into the early 1920s.

[1] Case also served as an advisor to the War Manpower Commission,[1] chief construction engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,[11] and regularly lectured at Princeton University.