Morton M Davis

As a registered Architect, Mort Davis started his career at the architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, working under Gordon Bunshaft. He spent most of his career as President of Dayton Metal Products, Inc., a steel shop in the Bronx, before returning to the practice of architecture in recent years, as an Architect for the City of New York. He attended Christopher Columbus High School, and at 16, enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1954. Mort married Joanne Victorsohn on September 11, 1960, and the couple settled into their home in New York City. She survives him, along his children, Gabrielle (Gaby), Deborah and Joshua (Josh), his sons- in-law, Jeffrey and Tom, his daughter-in-law, Meredith, and his grandchildren, Samuel, Hannah, Sophie, Jonas, Ava, Daniella and Noah.