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Category Archives: Building information
The Trident Apartments, New Rochelle
The Trident Apartments in New Rochelle were built in two phases, the first in 1911-1912. How do we know when the building opened? The New Rochelle Pioneer ran a pleasant little item called “Hello People” that reported the name of every new subscriber to the phone company. The June 1 edition of 1912 welcomed the [...]
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Douglas Sloane’s house in Rye survives
Douglas Sloane “the carpet manufacturer” had the firm build a house in Rye, N.Y. around 1888. The house has been altered and the grounds subdivided, but the main structure is still there: It is possible that the carriage house survives as well.
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Rich buildings at Smith are being renovated
The Smith College news service has photos of the renovations of Northrop and Gillett Houses (1910-1911) and Burton Hall (1913). During the early-twentieth century building boom that created those buildings, Smith College President Laurenus Seelye retired and commissioned a house near the campus from Charles Rich: President Seelye’s house (1909) The entry porch is somewhat [...]
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A Poughkeepsie project
For some time the list of buildings on this site erroneously attributed Christ Episcopal Church in Poughkeepsie (1887, William A. Potter) to the firm. Version 7.7 of the list, posted 06.12.2011, reflected only the correction of this error. What the firm did design for the church was its Albert Tower, Jr. Memorial Rectory (1903):
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Danbury Library
Lorenzo Wheeler formed a firm with Hugh Lamb in 1877 for the immediate purpose of completing the designs for a library in Danbury, Connecticut:
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The Wheeler sisters in Sharon, Connecticut
Version 8.0 of the list (pdf) now credits the firm with: A whole series of projects in Sharon, Connecticut for the Wheelers, McClurgs, and Tiffanys, including works at 32, 36, and 44 South Main Street. The Old Guard Armory at 49th Street in Manhattan: Nathaniel Witherell was a co-owner of the commercial building. Charles T. [...]
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Mystery houses of East Orange identified
What’s new in version 7.7 of the list? (pdf) Two unidentified photos published in the Inland Architect a century ago and recently put on line as part of the Ryerson & Burnham Digital Collections of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago have been identified: the Georgian brick house (SAIC image) was built for [...]
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Tenements for a billiards man
It is not reflected in the short version of the building list, but the client for Wheeler’s two tenements at 159 and 161 East 90th has been identified: John F. Gleason, the well-known billiards man and keeper of one of the city’s best pool rooms, in the Bowery. The 1880 Census describes his occupation as [...]
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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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Julian Mitchell’s house in Long Branch, N.J.