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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 for McKinlay and Gunn houses at 303 and 305 West 82nd.

This detail does not show up in the list: when D.S. Walton moved out of The Beeches in East Orange in 1920, he moved into Hollyoaks in West Orange, the Llewellyn Park house of the late Richard M. Colgate. Both houses had been altered by Lamb & Rich ten years or more before.

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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 after World War I?
  • The modest two-level storefront addition at 55 West 28th (Street View) has been identified as a Hugh Lamb project of 1902.
  • Frederic A. Angell’s late-1880s house in Montclair, N.J. has been identified as a Lamb & Rich project.
  • The standing “Cliffside Chapel” or St. James’s Episcopal Church has been identified as a Lamb & Wheeler project (it is typically attributed to Lamb & Rich).
  • New information on the unbuilt L&W building at 37, 39 Greene Street has been included; it turns out that the client was Hugh Lamb’s neighbor and future father-in-law.
  • Corrections have been made to 825 Broadway, the project for Bernhard Cohen, George Lowther’s Riverside (Conn.) address, and the Colgate Delta Kappa Epsilon House (still standing at its prominent location: Street View).
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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 Show House in 1997. Around that time, apparently, Stanford White began to be named as the architect. There are several reasons to believe that Charles A. Rich was the architect, including the appearance of the house.

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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 Trident Apartment.

Frederick Mathesius, who would run the Trident Realty Co. for decades, was already involved with the company by at least 1912, so it makes sense to assume that he was the architect. He did not join Rich’s firm until 1913.

Trident Apartments, New Rochelle

The side facade of the building’s 1920 second phase, above, looks a bit like the side facade of South Fayerweather Hall at Dartmouth (1906), below:

South Fayerweather Hall

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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:

Sloane house, Rye

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:

Seelye house

President Seelye’s house (1909)

The entry porch is somewhat similar to that of the firm’s contemporary Baldwin House, a few blocks away:

Baldwin House

Baldwin House (1908)

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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):

Tower Rectory, Poughkeepsie

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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:

Danbury Library

Danbury Library

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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. Root’s house in East Orange.
  • Judge Beattie’s house in Warwick, N.Y.
  • The Sparks house in Greenwich, which turns out to be well identified and well preserved.
  • Charles Greer’s four rental cottages on Evergreen Avenue in Rye, N.Y. Here is one of them:

A Greer cottage, Rye, N.Y.

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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 Charles Hathaway at 155 Prospect Street (1896), while the “Renaissance” stone house (SAIC image) was built at 92 Harrison Street (1901). Neither stands today.
  • Lorenzo Wheeler’s and Herbert Chivers’s unbuilt design for the Cote Brilliante Presbyterian Church in St. Louis is now mentioned.
  • Corrections: W.H.H. Jones’s name has been corrected from James, and Mount Morris Bank is now correctly sited in Manhattan instead of Brooklyn.
  • Caroline and Gustav Schwab’s cottage in Tuxedo Park has been identified, and it appears to stand today on West Lake Road at Mountain Farm Road (aerial below). This can’t be confirmed using Google Street View, of course: