Category Archives: Citations or references

California house(s)

Thanks to Professor Sparke for covering Rich in her discussion of Barnard College’s Brooks Hall: Instead Charles Rich was given the responsibility for the project, doubtless because of his long association with Elizabeth Anderson, for whose family he designed more than a dozen buildings, including the family mausoleum, her father’s house in Greenwich, Connecticut, and [...]
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The Augustus Frost Libby house, Summit, N.J.

Version 7.3 of the list (pdf) clears up the addresses of the nine houses the firm developed at 290-298 West End Avenue and 254-260 West 74th Street and identifies “Easterly,” the George F. Dominick house on Field Point Circle in Greenwich, Conn. (1902). This one still stands, and images of recent renovations show how much [...]
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The Charles E. Mitchell house

Thanks to Historic Buildings of Connecticut for the citation regarding Mitchell’s second New Britain house, no longer extant. His surviving earlier house at 5 Hillside Place does not seem to have an architect attached.
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The Queen Anne House: America’s Victorian Vernacular

Thanks to Janet W. Foster for detailed coverage of Lamb & Rich in The Queen Anne House: America’s Victorian Vernacular (Abrams, 2006).
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The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene

Thanks to Edward R. Bosley and Anne E. Mallek for the citation to this project’s Pratt family information in A New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene (Merrell Publishers, 2008). [Update 12.31.2009.  This information moved to this blog from static web page at http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index.html.]
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A monograph of the work of Lamb & Rich, Architects

As mentioned in the Dartmouth Parents & Grandparents Fund newsletter (Winter 2009), the book project underway at the moment is a monograph on Lamb & Rich. This is the same project mentioned in the Times back in 2004 and will take a few more years to complete. [Update 12.31.2009: This information reposted from Dartmo.com.]
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Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky

Thanks to Neal Bascomb for the coverage of Rich in Higher : A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City (Doubleday, 2003). [Update 12.31.2009.  This information moved to this blog from static web page at http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index.html.]
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Streetscapes in the New York Times

Many thanks to Christopher Gray for the mention of this project in “Streetscapes: Lamb & Rich; The Architectural Firm of Vivid & Ingenious,” New York Times (11 July 2004). [Update 12.31.2009.  This information moved to this blog from static web page at http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index.html.]
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