Hugh Lamb and Charles Alonzo Rich maintained an architectural partnership in New York City from 1881 to 1899, designing dozens of suburban Shingle-Style mansions, Classical institutional buildings, eclectic rowhouses, and Gothic churches, from Maine to New Jersey.
Several of the firm’s buildings now are listed on the National Register, including their best-known design, Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island country house, “Sagamore Hill.” Rich also designed what seems to be the first building for a graduate school of business (Tuck School, Hanover, N.H., 1902-1904).
The firm was preceeded by the firm of Lamb & Wheeler (1877-1881) and succeeded by the firms of Charles A. Rich, Architect (1899-1916), Rich & Mathesius (1916-1928), and Rich, Mathesius & Koyl (1928-1932). Relevant firms that are not covered here but that will be discussed eventually are Hugh Lamb, Architect (1870?-1877; 1899-1903) and the many firms of Lorenzo B. Wheeler in New York City, Atlanta, and St. Louis (1881-1899).
Important personnel are Hugh Lamb (1849-1903), Lorenzo B. Wheeler (1854-1899), Charles Alonzo Rich (1854-1943), Howard Major (1883-1974), Frederick Mathesius, Jr. (1880-1963), and George Simpson Koyl (1885-1975).