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Version 8.5 of the list (pdf) includes several new projects or confirmations for L.B. Wheeler: Hotel Tybee in Georgia. A house in Savannah. The Casa Grande hotel (unbuilt?) and a massive stable in Decatur, Alabama. Several Atlanta public school projects, including the rebuilding of the Crew Street School and a new Mitchell Street School. A [...]
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Albert Levy’s Madison Avenue mystery houses identified?
Albert Levy (Wikipedia) was a pioneering architectural photographer who produced about 36 albums of photos of modern American buildings during the 1870s. The Art Institute of Chicago has 90 of Levy’s images on line. Many are identified, but the one project from Lamb & Wheeler is listed as being on Madison Avenue, “possibly at E. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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A book update
A new job with an emphasis on the November-April period will slow work on the book until the spring. New buildings keep appearing: the whole project is taking longer than expected. The estimated publication date has been pushed back to 2014.
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An addition to Richard Colgate’s house in Llewellyn Park
Version 8.2 of the list (pdf) includes new information about an interesting Decatur Car Works project by Lorenzo Wheeler, E.A. Shepard’s house in Montclair, and an addition to Richard Colgate’s house. The second of two posts on pseudonyms in William I. Russell’s autobiography has been updated to reflect the identification of “Ned Banford” as Edward [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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: 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: President Seelye’s house (1909) The entry porch is somewhat [...]
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