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Scott Meacham, Lamb & Rich, Architects, and Related Firms: Buildings and Projects, 1877-1932 (2012).
Category Archives: Building information
The Beeches, David S. Walton’s house in East Orange
Version 8.4 of the list (pdf) includes a few tidbits: Now multiple alterations for the Munn house in Llewellyn Park. Information on Clarence Whitman’s Staten Island house. More detail on Underhill’s house or houses in Bellport. Correction to the date for Christ Episcopal Church in Bellport: it was off by 10 years. Correction to addresses [...]
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What became of the Chappaqua Mountain Institute in Valhalla?
Back in business with the first update in seven months, version 8.3 of the list (pdf) includes these items: The “Bettis Bungalow Hospital” in Chappaqua has been identified as a hospital or infirmary building at the Chappaqua Mountain Institute in Valhalla, N.Y., directed by Charles R. Blenis. Do you know what became of the Institute [...]
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Julian Mitchell’s house in Long Branch, N.J.
Version 8.1 of the list (pdf) includes minor corrections and goes out on a limb to attribute Julian Mitchell’s Long Branch, N.J. house to the firm: Photo of Mitchell house in Helen-Chantal Pike, Images of America: West Long Branch Revisited (Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 54. The house was the Monmouth County Junior League Designer [...]
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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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Albert Levy’s Madison Avenue mystery houses identified?