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Category Archives: Building information
Short Hills Congregational Church, unbuilt
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
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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Colonial Revival mania in Sharon, Connecticut
Sharon has a number of genuinely Colonial buildings, but it has more buildings erected in the Colonial style at the turn of the Twentieth Century. While Lamb & Rich are known for the Romanesque monument on the Green in Sharon, the Wheeler Memorial Clock Tower, their other projects in town have not been identified. The [...]
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Lawrence Hall, precursor of Lawrence Woodmere Academy
The Lawrence element of Lawrence Woodmere Academy traces its history back to a private school established by the Lawrence Association in Lawrence, Long Island in 1891. Information on the Association’s original building, apparently a combination schoolroom and meeting hall called Lawrence Hall, is difficult to find. The building was definitely built, however, and was supported [...]
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Who designed Pine Tree Point?
Who designed the original “Pine Tree Point” house on Point Marguerite/Point Anthony at Alexandria Bay in the Thousand Islands, New York? John B. Taylor commissioned the imposing stone summer cottage in the early 1920s. It might have been Rich & Mathesius, since the firm referred to Taylor projects in 1920 and 1921. The building seems [...]
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New version of catalog — Thomas House in Saratoga Springs
Version 6.2 of the list (pdf) includes several new attributions, including a tentative identification of the Thomas House at 72 Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs. It appears to have been built for George West, Jr. in 1903 and was used for a number of years as the Skidmore College administration building: 72 Union Avenue The [...]
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Butler Manor demolition imminent
The SI Treasure Blog warns that Butler Manor, the 1908-1909 country house designed by Charles A. Rich, Architect for Elmer T. Butler on Staten Island, is scheduled for demolition in the extremely near future. The only chance of even a temporary reprieve lies with the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The house seems especially notable because it [...]
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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 [...]
Pratt Manor, of course