Category Archives: Site updates

A book update

By Editor | Published: 01.03.2012
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

By Editor | Published: 09.18.2011
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.

By Editor | Published: 08.06.2011
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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A Poughkeepsie project

By Editor | Published: 07.14.2011
For some time the list of buildings on this site erroneously attributed Christ Episcopal Church in Poughkeepsie (1887, William A. Potter) to the firm. Version 7.7 of the list, posted 06.12.2011, reflected only the correction of this error. What the firm did design for the church was its Albert Tower, Jr. Memorial Rectory (1903):
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The Wheeler sisters in Sharon, Connecticut

By Editor | Published: 07.10.2011
Version 8.0 of the list (pdf) now credits the firm with: A whole series of projects in Sharon, Connecticut for the Wheelers, McClurgs, and Tiffanys, including works at 32, 36, and 44 South Main Street. The Old Guard Armory at 49th Street in Manhattan: Nathaniel Witherell was a co-owner of the commercial building. Charles T. [...]
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Mystery houses of East Orange identified

By Editor | Published: 06.05.2011
What’s new in version 7.7 of the list? (pdf) Two unidentified photos published in the Inland Architect a century ago and recently put on line as part of the Ryerson & Burnham Digital Collections of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago have been identified: the Georgian brick house (SAIC image) was built for [...]
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Tenements for a billiards man

By Editor | Published: 05.15.2011
It is not reflected in the short version of the building list, but the client for Wheeler’s two tenements at 159 and 161 East 90th has been identified: John F. Gleason, the well-known billiards man and keeper of one of the city’s best pool rooms, in the Bowery. The 1880 Census describes his occupation as [...]
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A house for William Ledyard Vandervoort in South Oyster Bay

By Editor | Published: 04.24.2011
Vandervoort bought the property around 1880; the author of his 1882 house has now been identified. This project could suggest the means by which Theodore Roosevelt learned about the firm before he built his house in Oyster Bay. Version 7.5 of the list (pdf) also identifies the six houses the firm designed for Gerald L. [...]
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The Mallorys of Mystic and Byram Shore

By Editor | Published: 03.29.2011
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.

By Editor | Published: 02.11.2011
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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