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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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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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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 [...]
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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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New version of catalog coming
A new list of about 675 Lamb & Rich projects should be available here in the next few weeks. [Update 12.07.2009: It is more like 600 projects.] [Update 12.31.2009: This information reposted from Dartmo.com.]
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Progress on Lamb & Rich book
About 600 individual projects by Lamb & Wheeler/Rich have been identified for the book. Progress is occurring in the Manhattan projects, while the Colgate University/family projects remain mysterious. Illustrations are beginning to come in, and a tentative publication date of early 2012 has been established. [Update 12.31.2009: This information reposted from Dartmo.com.]
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Building information added – Winton Motors Garage on Broadway
New information has been added to the catalog for: Design for Sigma Phi house, Williams College Phi Delta Theta house, Dartmouth College Danbury Library, Danbury, Connecticut Witherell Tuberculosis Pavilion, Greenwich Colonial Revival garden for Charles Towner Root, Orange, N.J. Overtoun Hall, Mt. Hermon Academy Winton Motors garage for Percy Owen, Manhattan R. Fulton Cutting House [...]
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Building information added – Samuel Harris in North Long Branch
New information has been added to the catalog for: House in Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Conn. Cottage for Samuel Harris in North Long Branch, N.J. The Orange Club House, Brick Church, N.J. House for J.A. Minott, Orange, N.J. Bethel Presbyterian Church, Plainfield, N.J. Three houses on Sixth Avenue for H.M. Blasdell House on 68th Street [...]
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Butler Manor demolition imminent