The James Dunne house by Elisha H. Janes with Lamb & Rich

Version 9.1 of the list (pdf) contains some information on the house that James Dunne commissioned on Beachside Avenue in Greens Farms, Connecticut. The house was designed by E.H. Janes “with Lamb & Rich.” The project does not show up in the firm’s records. A superb photo from the Pequot Library shows the house, which burned in 1912.

Other changes:

  • The list is now crediting Rich with the design of the 1900 Poillon house in Water Witch Park, rather than Rossiter & Wright, on the basis of a reference in firm records and a notice published in the American Architect and Real Estate Record. Son Howard Andrews Poillon would marry daughter Francis Wright, but not until 1914.
  • The suspicion that Rich designed the Samuel Seabury Jones house at Water Witch, on the other hand, has finally been excised. That was clearly a Rossiter & Wright project.
  • Spelling corrections include the names of Niven (not Nivens) and Peugnet (not Penguet). Puegnet and Morrison were sisters, it turns out, and were involved in St. Louis skyscrapers including the Holland Building. That and related entries have been reorganized.
  • The credit for the simple remodeling of the Hubbard House in Hanover, N.H. has been removed; the relevant listing in firm records likely reflects only an unbuilt addition.
  • The house for Frank Enos in Englewood is placed with more confidence at 148 Grand Avenue.
  • The building that the Consolidated Ice Co. had the firm alter was designed by Napoleon Le Brun as a church.

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