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.]
One of the main sources of information on the early days of the Romantic suburb of Short Hills, New Jersey is William Ingraham Russell’s gossipy book The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York. It appears to have been self-published in at least three editions through 1913 as Russell added postscripts. No one yet seems to have tried to figure out the pseudonyms he used for his neighbors in the early 1880s:
House names (“Redstone,” “Sunnyside”) are unchanged, as are place names and addresses outside of Short Hills. “Edward ‘Ned’ Banford,” “William Curtice,” “George Todd,” “Albert Caine,” and “Mr. Viedler” will require more work. (Is “Mr. Viedler” George Vietor?) The Banfords rented 39 Knollwood Road and the Todds rented 1 Park Place around 1893, so it should be possible to identify them.
[Update 12.31.2009: This information reposted from Dartmo.com.]
[Update 08.27.2010: More pseudonyms puzzled out.]
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.]
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.]
New information has been added to the catalog for:
[Update 12.31.2009. This information moved to this blog from static web page at http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index.html.]
New information has been added to the catalog for:
[Update 12.31.2009. This information moved to this blog from static web page at http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index.html.]
New information has been added to the catalog for:
[Update 12.31.2009. This information moved to this blog from static web page at http://www.dartmo.com/lambandrich/index.html.]
A footnote
Posts have become even less frequent because of a research trip to Manhattan and New Jersey…
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Reid Buckley (of those Buckleys) tries to describe* Lamb & Rich’s clock tower in Sharon, Connecticut:
Reid would that Rich had not done what? The anti-Victorian sentiment seems to have been tripped up by sloppy editing.
One doubts that the tower is referred to “always” as being in the Gothic style, especially among the Buckleys, who are familiar with the Gothic architecture of Yale. It also seems obvious that “Richardsonian Romanesque” must be named for someone named Richardson — in this case, Henry Hobson Richardson, not a particularly obscure architect.
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*Reid Buckley, An American Family: The Buckleys (Threshold Editions, 2008), 225-226 n3.
[Update 12.31.2009: This information reposted from Dartmo.com.]