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New version of catalog — Brighton Pier progress
The list (pdf) is up to about 685 projects, including those of related firms. The firm’s records describe one 1897 project simply as “Brighton Pier.” This is now being interpreted to refer not to a pier in Brighton but to a project for the Brighton Pier & Navigation Co., the ferry operator and builder of [...]
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The Charles E. Mitchell house
Thanks to Historic Buildings of Connecticut for the citation regarding Mitchell’s second New Britain house, no longer extant. His surviving earlier house at 5 Hillside Place does not seem to have an architect attached.
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New version of catalog — Southern projects added
The list (pdf) includes more of Lorenzo Wheeler’s work in Atlanta and around the South.
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W.L. Vandewirt of Oyster Bay
Before the house at Sagamore Hill, Lamb & Rich designed a frame house and stable in Oyster Bay for “Mr. W.L. Vandewirt.”[1] This name appears nowhere else and is very likely a misspelling, possibly an egregious one (the American Architect turned Talbot J. Taylor into “Albert J. Talbot”). It seems possible that Roosevelt heard about [...]
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Who was Lorenzo B. Wheeler?
What did he look like? What did the “B.” stand for? The mystery man deserves his own book. He is probably more interesting to historians of modern architecture and Victorian America than either Hugh Lamb or Charles Rich. Wheeler grew up in Danbury and moved to Newark in the 1870s. The best obituary claims that [...]
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New version of catalog — Henderson Place updated
The list (pdf) now numbers the houses of Henderson Place correctly. View Larger Map Henderson Place The big project for John C. Henderson is always confusing, partly because eight of its houses have been demolished and others have been combined. Still, it is not clear that the historic district nomination got it right when it [...]
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Mount Morris Bank becomes a Romanesque ruin
Christopher Gray has been documenting the sad slow-motion destruction of the Mount Morris Bank at Park and 125th in his New York Times column. In 1987, the endangered building was still seven stories (“The Mount Morris Bank: A Derelict Is Freshened Up, But Its Fate Is Still Uncertain” (30 August 1987)), but today just two [...]
New version of catalog posted
The list (pdf) now includes another four dozen buildings by the partners in their separate practices before and after their work with the main firm of Lamb & Wheeler/Rich. The most interesting new entry is the Holland Building (1896, Wheeler & McClure), a notable early St. Louis skyscraper by Lorenzo B. Wheeler and Albany/St. Louis [...]
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The Queen Anne House: America’s Victorian Vernacular
Thanks to Janet W. Foster for detailed coverage of Lamb & Rich in The Queen Anne House: America’s Victorian Vernacular (Abrams, 2006).
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Butler Manor demolition imminent