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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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Martin’s Villa or Fairmount, Chatham, N.J.
Version 7.1 of the list (pdf) has only a few new buildings, by far the most interesting of which is one that Hugh Lamb advertised on the back of the 1877 Newark city directory:
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The Woman’s Apartment House Association
Version 7.0 of the list (pdf) has been posted. Along with a minor reorganization and the dropping of Rich’s Charlottesville house as far too late to include, these are some of the changes: An interesting unbuilt Woman’s Apartment House Association design is noted. This was an answer to the popular bachelor apartment of the 1890s [...]
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Pratt Manor, of course
Version 6.5 of the list (pdf) was posted a while back. Recent additions include: Pratt Manor or “the Manor House,” at Glen Cove, Charles Pratt’s ca. 1890 alteration of an existing house. The house was moved and replaced by Pratt’s son John Teele Pratt around 1912. The son’s replacement, called “the Manor,” was designed by [...]
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Short Hills Congregational Church, unbuilt
Version 6.4 of the list (pdf) is up. New are the references to Wheeler’s two tenements for John F. Gleason (a consolidation of references to Gleason and “Mr. Mason”; not sure whether Gleason is the famous billiards man of that name); the sports pavilion at the Berkeley Oval (not the same as the Berkeley Oval [...]
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Butler Manor demolished
The Preservation League of Staten Island writes that the Rich-designed Butler Manor has been demolished. Secret Staten Island has photos. [Update 10.24.2010: Preservation magazine has an online story.]
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Colonial Revival mania in Sharon, Connecticut
Sharon has a number of genuinely Colonial buildings, but it has more buildings erected in the Colonial style at the turn of the Twentieth Century. While Lamb & Rich are known for the Romanesque monument on the Green in Sharon, the Wheeler Memorial Clock Tower, their other projects in town have not been identified. The [...]
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The Lowther House, Riverside, Connecticut