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A house for William Ledyard Vandervoort in South Oyster Bay
Vandervoort bought the property around 1880; the author of his 1882 house has now been identified. This project could suggest the means by which Theodore Roosevelt learned about the firm before he built his house in Oyster Bay. Version 7.5 of the list (pdf) also identifies the six houses the firm designed for Gerald L. [...]
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The Williams Villa
An 1874 design for a villa for Henry T. Williams in Essex County, N.J. by Hugh Lamb. Williams was the editor of The Horticulturist and printed Lamb’s drawings in the journal: Hugh Lamb design for Williams villa, from Google Books At the time, Lamb’s office was located at 788 Broad Street in Newark, and he [...]
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The Real Estate Record is officially available on line
The Avery Library announced on February 4 that its on-line trove of the Real Estate Record and Builders’ Guide, from 1868 to 1922, is officially available and searchable. A fantastic resource. There is no longer any need to use the cumbersome process outlined in this 2009 post. The OMH Manhattan N.B. Database remains the only [...]
California house(s)
Thanks to Professor Sparke for covering Rich in her discussion of Barnard College’s Brooks Hall: Instead Charles Rich was given the responsibility for the project, doubtless because of his long association with Elizabeth Anderson, for whose family he designed more than a dozen buildings, including the family mausoleum, her father’s house in Greenwich, Connecticut, and [...]
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The Mallorys of Mystic and Byram Shore
Version 7.4 of the list (pdf) corrects W.H.H. Jones to W.H.H. James and clarifies the Henry R. Mallory projects in Greenwich somewhat. Of the three Mallory houses built in a row on Byram Shore beginning around 1884, only the middle one, that of Henry, appears to survive: Henry R. Mallory house. Part of the confusion [...]
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The Lowther House, Riverside, Connecticut
This might be a new attribution. It appears that Lamb & Rich were the designers of George Lowther’s 1891 house on Lowther Point, apparently part of Indian Head Point, in Riverside, Greenwich. An aerial view of the house appears on page 158 of Rachel Carley’s Building Greenwich. After serving at least four generations of Lowthers, [...]
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The Augustus Frost Libby house, Summit, N.J.
Version 7.3 of the list (pdf) clears up the addresses of the nine houses the firm developed at 290-298 West End Avenue and 254-260 West 74th Street and identifies “Easterly,” the George F. Dominick house on Field Point Circle in Greenwich, Conn. (1902). This one still stands, and images of recent renovations show how much [...]
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Cottage for the Misses Stebbins, Cannon Point, Lake George, N.Y.
This ca. 1907 summer cottage is still standing: The house is now the recreation center for a condo complex (see top photo, bottom photo).
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New version of catalog — Two houses in Riverdale, the Bronx
Version 7.2 of the list (pdf) includes clearer identifications of neighboring 1887 houses in Riverdale for Edmund Titus (below) and Frederick M. Adams (bottom).
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Tenements for a billiards man