Frank J. Rooney (1956) Frank J. Rooney’s name was behind many of South Florida’s most famous buildings – his eponymous company was a construction force in the region through the 1970s. Rooney’s long list of notable projects include Miami-Dade Community College’s North Campus, the Dadeland Shopping Center and the Bacardi Building. Formerly the USA [read more...]
George C. Koss (1955) Meager beginnings, the company website calls them. Koss, born in our nation’s capital, was the child of German immigrants and raised in the greater DC/Virginia area. Upon graduating in 1901 with an engineering degree, he began his career with the Western Railway, eventually finding his way to Des Moines, where [read more...]
Originally the Associated Building Contractors of Rockford, Northern Illinois Building Contractors has been a full service chapter of the AGC since 1954. It offers bargaining services, safety, education, industry information, public policy advocacy, regular and social meetings, liaisons with industry partners, scholarships, mentoring, training and trustee representation to the Taft-Hartley Funds. We are entering [read more...]
John Mac Leod (1954) No state has had more AGC members serve at the top of the national food chain than California, and John MacLeod – a native of Scotland – was one of this elite group. After immigrating to Canada in 1911, he eventually made his way south to the States, beginning his [read more...]
C. P. Street (1953) Street, one half of the prominent Charlotte, NC-based McDevitt & Street Company, was the principal contractor who helmed the construction of many of the city’s most beautiful buildings. The company began as a partnership in 1917 and was incorporated in 1925. Street took controlling interest in the firm in 1931 [read more...]
Arthur S. Horner (1952) Kansas native Arthur S. Horner graduated from the University of Colorado in 1922. With a degree in civil engineering, he entered the construction field and founded his own firm in Denver, A.S. Horner Construction, soon after. A builder of bridges, viaducts, underpasses, reservoirs, sewage projects, industrial plants and more, Horner’s [read more...]
Glen W. Maxon (1951) Like many of AGC’s past presidents, his is a name that’s been associated with the industry for decades and endures to this day, Glen W. Maxon is known as the “Father of Central Mix Concrete.” His earliest work in the ‘30s saw him developing more uniform and faster concrete and [read more...]
Walter L. Couse (1950) By the time he was installed as AGC’s President during the annual convention in San Francisco, Walter L. Couse was a prominent contractor in Detroit, MI. Born in Cleveland, Couse was a double-degreed graduate of the University of Michigan’s Engineering School. Upon leaving academics, Couse worked for the cities of [read more...]
Adolph Teichert, Jr. (1949) This president’s construction legacy endures today in the company his father started in 1887. Noted craftsman Adolph Teichert, Sr. was a German immigrant whose craftsmanship can still be seen today in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Eventually, Teichert settled in Sacramento and began a family business, which son Adolph, Jr. [read more...]
Dwight W. Winkleman (1948) Winkelman, a native of Louisville, IA, began his tenure in the industry with the Chicago outfit of Minder & Cain. After a stint doing road work in the Adirondacks, he decided to put down roots in upstate New York, opening an office for his eponymous firm in 1937. It would [read more...]
