Wolfgang Gustav Triest
Wolfgang Gustav Triest was an American civil engineer. He was the founder of the Triest Construction Company in New York, and had homes in Annapolis, Maryland, and Southampton, Long Island.
Early life
Wolfgang Gustav Triest, also known as W. G. Triest, was born in New York City, New York.Career
In 1898, Frederick Snare and W.G. Triest founded the Snare & Triest Company. The Snare & Triest Company was incorporated in 1900. The Snare & Triest Company was renamed the Frederick Snare Corporation Contracting Engineers in the early 1920s. Around 1921, Snare and Triest agreed to part ways. He continued in heavy construction under the firm, Triest Contracting Corporation, subway and bridge builders of New York.Triest was involved in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. His company also built part of the subway tunnel on the IND line, part of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel, and the cutoff wall of Merriman Dam in Wawarsing, New York.