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The Mallorys of Mystic and Byram Shore
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 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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Martin’s Villa or Fairmount, Chatham, N.J.
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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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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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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More pseudonyms in Short Hills
William I. Russell’s 1913 autobiography The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York uses pseudonyms almost exclusively. Some people’s identities may be figured out based on the proximity of their houses in Short Hills, New Jersey. Others depend on characterization: [Manufacturing jeweler "Ned Banford"] said his own capital was very [...]
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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California house(s)