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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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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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New version of catalog — Southern projects added
The list (pdf) includes more of Lorenzo Wheeler’s work in Atlanta and around the South.
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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 [...]
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Who was Lorenzo B. Wheeler?
What did he look like? What did the “B.” stand for? The mystery man deserves his own book. He is probably more interesting to historians of modern architecture and Victorian America than either Hugh Lamb or Charles Rich. Wheeler grew up in Danbury and moved to Newark in the 1870s. The best obituary claims that [...]
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New version of catalog — Henderson Place updated
The list (pdf) now numbers the houses of Henderson Place correctly. View Larger Map Henderson Place The big project for John C. Henderson is always confusing, partly because eight of its houses have been demolished and others have been combined. Still, it is not clear that the historic district nomination got it right when it [...]
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Researching the architectural history of New York
While the Office for Metropolitan History has — fabulously — made Manhattan new building application information available through a database covering the years from 1900 to 1986, the building permits of the nineteenth century represent a larger project that is yet to be undertaken. It turns out that the Internet Archive is hosting scanned and [...]
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A footnote about the Sharon Clock Tower
Posts have become even less frequent because of a research trip to Manhattan and New Jersey… —- Reid Buckley describes* Lamb & Rich’s clock tower in Sharon, Connecticut: [T]he clock is referred to always as a structure in “Gothic” style, with its granite blocks quarried nearby in Sharon, its red stones imported from Potsdam, New [...]
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