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Scott Meacham, Lamb & Rich, Architects, and Related Firms: Buildings and Projects, 1877-1932 (2011).
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Martin’s Villa or Fairmount, Chatham, N.J.
Version 7.1 of the list (pdf) has only a few new buildings, by far the most interesting of which is one that Hugh Lamb advertised on the back of the 1877 Newark city directory:
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The Woman’s Apartment House Association
Version 7.0 of the list (pdf) has been posted. Along with a minor reorganization and the dropping of Rich’s Charlottesville house as far too late to include, these are some of the changes: An interesting unbuilt Woman’s Apartment House Association design is noted. This was an answer to the popular bachelor apartment of the 1890s [...]
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Pratt Manor, of course
Version 6.5 of the list (pdf) was posted a while back. Recent additions include: Pratt Manor or “the Manor House,” at Glen Cove, Charles Pratt’s ca. 1890 alteration of an existing house. The house was moved and replaced by Pratt’s son John Teele Pratt around 1912. The son’s replacement, called “the Manor,” was designed by [...]
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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.
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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New version of catalog — Two houses in Riverdale, the Bronx