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Charlou House on Long Island
Version 9.2 of the list (pdf) contains a few fixes (Plainfield Church, removal of a duplicate NYC firehouse), new addresses for Smith and White in Ridgewood, and some more certainty about Charlou House and Oakleigh in Glen Cove. News: –The top floor of the Pratt Institute’s Main Building burned in a frightening fire in the [...]
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The James Dunne house by Elisha H. Janes with Lamb & Rich
Version 9.1 of the list (pdf) contains some information on the house that James Dunne commissioned on Beachside Avenue in Greens Farms, Connecticut. The house was designed by E.H. Janes “with Lamb & Rich.” The project does not show up in the firm’s records. A superb photo from the Pequot Library shows the house, which [...]
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Peddie Memorial Church competition entry
Version 9.0 of the list (pdf) contains a novel reference to the firm’s entry in the Peddie Memorial Church competition in Newark (won by William Halsey Wood); a bit more information for the Coffee Exchange competition; more information for Manhattan liquor wholesaler William A. Martin’s house in New Jersey; and an attribution to Wheeler of [...]
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Ornament and truth
Another comparison to one of the greats of Modernist architecture: Adolf Loos (Wikipedia), who famously connected ornament and crime, wrote that “The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.”[1] Lorenzo Wheeler, on the other hand, warned clients to “Beware of ornament,”[2]. He wrote: [F]eatures which, by their presence, imply that [...]
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Form following function
Lorenzo B. Wheeler makes a fascinating contrast to Louis Sullivan. Wheeler had his St. Louis office in Sullivan’s Wainwright Building (1890), and he built his own skyscraper across the street (the Holland Building, 1897). In 1896, Louis Sullivan wrote his famous “form follows function” maxim: It is the pervading law of all things organic and [...]
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A house in Elizabeth, New Jersey
Version 8.7 of the list (pdf) contains several changes: The duplicate reference to the A.B. Ansbacher project has been removed. The 534 Madison Avenue project has been confirmed: until now, only the coincidence of a reference to “534 Mad. Ave. Corp.” in firm records and the address of Mathesius’s uncle’s furniture showroom suggested a link. [...]
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The Playhouse in the DuPont Building
Version 8.6 of the list (pdf) has new references to the tall office building in St. Louis designed but never built by Wheeler & McClure; a correction to the spelling of Selmar Hess; and a correction to the addresses of the project at 258 and 260 West 75th Street (there was no number 260, it [...]
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Lorenzo B. Wheeler designed the Hotel Tybee in Georgia
Version 8.5 of the list (pdf) is now set in Bell MT and includes these new items: An attribution for an addition to Mr. Drysdale’s house. A correction for the C.M. Pratt project incorrectly located in Riverhead. A correction for the misattribution of the renovations of the Oriental Hotel: they were done by McKim, Mead [...]
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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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