American Architects and Interior Designers

American Architects and Architectural Firms

John C. Austin

• Examples:
• First Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, California

Lewis Bowman

• Examples:
  • N. T. McKee house, Bronxville, New York

Daniel Burnham

• A short biography of Daniel H. Burnham, by Sarah E. Mitchell

Frank Burnham

• Examples:
• Christian Science Church, Pasadena, California

John T. Comes

• Examples:
  • St. Agness' Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • St. Paul's Church, Butler, Pennsylvania

Comes, Perry & McMullen

• Examples:
  • St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, Toledo, Ohio

Alexander Jackson Davis

• Complete on-line version of Davis' book, Rural Residences, Etc., 1837
• Portrait of Davis; copies of 27 original architectural drawings for the Virginia Military Institute
• Copy of portrait sketch from New York University
• Picturesque Enclaves: Paintings of three Davis designs and a sketch of the plan for Lewellyn Park, New Jersey

Delano and Aldrich

• Examples:
  • Otto H. Kahn house, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York
  • Mrs. Willard D. Straight house, New York City, New York

Dodd & Richards

• Examples:
• Pacific Mutual Building, Los Angeles, California

Joy Wheeler Dow

• Examples:
  • Eastover, Wyoming, New Jersey
  • The Rabbitt House, Wyoming, New Jersey

Andrew Jackson Downing

• Sketches of several Downing designs
• Short biography of Downing, with more emphasis on his gardening (rather than architecture)
• A shorter biography of Downing (includes picture)

Aymar Embury II

• Aymer Embury II and the architecture of Buckhead - Atlanta, Georgia

G. Bertram Goodhue

• Examples:
  • St. Bartholemews Church, New York City, New York

Elmer Grey

• Examples:
• George C. Rew Residence, Coronado, California
• M. H. Adamson Residence, Los Angeles, California

Harde and Short

• Examples:
  • Apartment House in Manhattan Square, West 77th Street, New York City, New York

Wyatt C. Hedrick

• Wyatt C. Hedrick, Architect (best known for his work in the Fort Worth, Texas area)

Richard Morris Hunt

• Examples:
• The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island
• Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island

Thomas Jefferson

• Architect Thomas Jefferson from Great Buildings Online

Reginald Johnson

• Examples:
• McNaughton Residence, La Canada, California

Wm. Templeton Johnson

• Examples:
• Wm. Templeton Johnson Residence, San Diego, California

Detlef Lienau (worked in the United States late 1840's - 1880's)

• Detlef Lienau, Architect of Lockwood Mansion and Sugar House
• Short biography of Detlef Lienau

McKim, Mead, and White (Architectural firm)

• McKim, Mead, and White from Great Buildings Online
• McKim, Mead, and White's Work in Buffalo, New York
• Examples:
• Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, New York
• Columbia Trust Company Building, New York
• The Frederick W. Vanderbilt House, Hyde Park, New York
• Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, New York
• Ira Allen Chapel, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
• Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York
• The Percy Pyne Residence, New York
• Assorted McKim, Mead, and White Buildings (photographed prior to 1903)
• Stanford White (member of firm)
• Stanford White: Designer of elegant Long Island (NY) Homes for the Gilded Age
• Examples:
  • Rosecliff, Newport, Rhode Island

Robert Mills

• Robert Mills, Architect by Fiske Kimball, 1931.
• Examples:
• The Archer House, Richmond, Virginia (demolished in 1927)
• Original City Hall, Richmond, Virginia (demolished in 1874)

Frederick Law Olmstead

• Site about Olmstead's life and work

John Parkinson

• Examples:
• Brownstein-Louis Company's Factory Building, Los Angeles, California

John Russell Pope

• Examples:
  • Allan S. Lehman house, Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson, New York
  • Country Club, Tuxedo, New York
  • Stuart Duncan House, Newport, Rhode Island
  • Thomas Frothingham House, Far Hills, New Jersey
  • Winter Cottage on the Estate of Marshall Field, Long Island, New York

Henry Hobson Richardson

• Henry Hobson Richardson, Nineteenth Century Architect by Charles L. Barstow, 1937
• Henry Hobson Richardson by Chandler R. Clifford, 1901
• Architect Henry Hobson Richardson from Great Buildings Online
• Examples:
• Nineteenth-century Photographs of Buildings Designed by Henry Hobson Richardson
• The Glessner House, Chicago, Illinois (now a house museum)

John Riddell

• Review of John Riddell's Architectural Designs for Model Country Residences, 1861

Shampson and Shampson

• Examples:
  • Apartment building at St. Mark's Place and New York Avenue, Brooklyn, New York

Samuel Sloan

• Excerpts from Samuel Sloan's Homestead Architecture (1867) Primarily Gothic and Italianate Designs
• Examples:
• Picture of Sloan-designed Longwood (an octagonal house), Natchez, Mississippi

George Washington Smith (early 20th century)

• Examples:
• Irving Wright House, Santa Barbara, California

Andrew J. Thomas (early 20th century)

• Examples:
  • Jackson Heights Courts, Long Island, New York

Richard Upjohn

• Review of Richard Upjohn's Rural Architecture

Calvert Vaux

• Biography (with photograph)
• A similar biography, but with links to photos of his architecture

Warren and Wetmore

• Examples:
  • Hotel Ambassador, Park Avenue, New York City, New York
  • Providence Biltmore Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island
  • Residences at 7 and 9 East 91st Street, New York City
  • Shelburne Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Frank Lloyd Wright

• The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Site
• Frank Lloyd Wright: Furniture and Home Design
• Frank Lloyd Wright: Design for an American Landscape, 1922 - 1932, a Library of Congress on-line exhibit

Interior Designers

Elsie de Wolfe

• Review of Elsie de Wolfe's The House in Good Taste, 1913
• Elsie de Wolfe's Home circa 1897
• Did Elsie de Wolfe Influence My Grandmother's Style of Interior Design?, by Sarah E. Mitchell

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