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Category Archives: Site updates
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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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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A Poughkeepsie project
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
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
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
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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