Category Archives: Building information

The Williams Villa

By Editor | Published: 04.11.2011
An 1874 design for a villa for Henry T. Williams in Essex County, N.J. by Hugh Lamb. Williams was the editor of The Horticulturist and printed Lamb’s drawings in the journal: Hugh Lamb design for Williams villa, from Google Books At the time, Lamb’s office was located at 788 Broad Street in Newark, and he [...]
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The Mallorys of Mystic and Byram Shore

By Editor | Published: 03.29.2011
Version 7.4 of the list (pdf) corrects W.H.H. Jones to W.H.H. James and clarifies the Henry R. Mallory projects in Greenwich somewhat. Of the three Mallory houses built in a row on Byram Shore beginning around 1884, only the middle one, that of Henry, appears to survive: Henry R. Mallory house. Part of the confusion [...]
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The Lowther House, Riverside, Connecticut

By Editor | Published: 02.12.2011
This might be a new attribution. It appears that Lamb & Rich were the designers of George Lowther’s 1891 house on Lowther Point, apparently part of Indian Head Point, in Riverside, Greenwich. An aerial view of the house appears on page 158 of Rachel Carley’s Building Greenwich. After serving at least four generations of Lowthers, [...]
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Cottage for the Misses Stebbins, Cannon Point, Lake George, N.Y.

By Editor | Published: 01.10.2011
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

By Editor | Published: 01.09.2011
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.

By Editor | Published: 11.10.2010
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

By Editor | Published: 10.24.2010
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

By Editor | Published: 09.25.2010
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

By Editor | Published: 09.08.2010
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

By Editor | Published: 09.06.2010
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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