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Scott Meacham, Lamb & Rich, Architects, and Related Firms: Buildings and Projects, 1873-1932 (2010).
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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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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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New version of catalog posted
The list (pdf) now includes another four dozen buildings by the partners in their separate practices before and after their work with the main firm of Lamb & Wheeler/Rich. The most interesting new entry is the Holland Building (1896, Wheeler & McClure), a notable early St. Louis skyscraper by Lorenzo B. Wheeler and Albany/St. Louis [...]
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Project page moved
Finally the web page for this project has been put into blog form, moved from http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index.html to http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index.php. The various updates listed on the old page have been recreated here as backdated posts. The old page will not be updated but will remain available at http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index2.html.
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New version of catalog posted
The “Buildings and Projects” list (v. 5) is posted. Still a bare list, it has been made as comprehensive as possible, describing about 600 projects. [Update 12.31.2009. This information moved to this blog from static web page at http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index.html.]
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A footnote
Posts have become even less frequent because of a research trip to Manhattan and New Jersey… —- Reid Buckley (of those Buckleys) tries to describe* 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 [...]
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Progress on Lamb & Rich book
About 600 individual projects by Lamb & Wheeler/Rich have been identified for the book. Progress is occurring in the Manhattan projects, while the Colgate University/family projects remain mysterious. Illustrations are beginning to come in, and a tentative publication date of early 2012 has been established. [Update 12.31.2009: This information reposted from Dartmo.com.]
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A monograph of the work of Lamb & Rich, Architects
As mentioned in the Dartmouth Parents & Grandparents Fund newsletter (Winter 2009), the book project underway at the moment is a monograph on Lamb & Rich. This is the same project mentioned in the Times back in 2004 and will take a few more years to complete. [Update 12.31.2009: This information reposted from Dartmo.com.]
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Project page moved
Main page of Lamb & Rich project moved from Dartmo > Rich > Buildings & Projects to Dartmo > Lamb & Rich. [Update 12.31.2009. This information moved to this blog from static web page at http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index.html.]
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New version of catalog — Brighton Pier progress