Lamb & Rich, Architects, and Related Firms » Citations or references

California house(s)

Editor — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:13:28 +0000

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 her own homes in New York City and Santa Monica, California. Rich also was the architect of Sagamore Hill, the great Shingle Style country house created for Teddy Roosevelt, a close friend of Anderson’s husband.

Penny Sparke, ed. Mitchell Owens, Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration (Acanthus Press, 2005), 59.

But Santa Monica? I wonder, is that Anderson’s Long Beach house, or her daughter’s house at 671 Wilshire Boulevard, or a third house?

The Augustus Frost Libby house, Summit, N.J.

Editor — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:22:08 +0000

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 the house shares with the contemporary College Hall at Dartmouth.

The list is now one step closer to locating Augustus Libby’s house in Summit, N.J. The property was known as “Finisterre,” and its preferred street address appears to have started out on Springfield Avenue and later shifted to Beekman Place. The Benziger family owned it after the Libby family.

Alex Hanson, in “Building by Building,” Valley News (15 January 2011), refers to

a book about Lamb & Rich, a New York architecture firm that designed nearly two dozen buildings for Dartmouth when it expanded dramatically at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Charles E. Mitchell house

Editor — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:39 +0000

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.

The Queen Anne House: America’s Victorian Vernacular

Editor — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:26:31 +0000

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

The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene

Editor — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:46:46 +0000

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.]

A monograph of the work of Lamb & Rich, Architects

Editor — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:39:50 +0000

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.]

Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky

Editor — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:32:34 +0000

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.]

Streetscapes in the New York Times

Editor — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:38:24 +0000

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.]