Babb, Cook and Willard
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Babb, Cook and Willard is a New York City-based architectural firm
that designed many important homes and commercial buildings. The Principals of the firm were George Fletcher Babb, Walter Cook (1843-1916), and Daniel W. Willard.
Architectural firm
An architectural firm is a company which employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture.- History :Architects have existed since early in recorded history. The earliest recorded architects include Imhotep and Senemut . No writings exist to describe how these...
that designed many important homes and commercial buildings. The Principals of the firm were George Fletcher Babb, Walter Cook (1843-1916), and Daniel W. Willard.
Works
- Andrew Carnegie MansionAndrew Carnegie MansionThe Andrew Carnegie Mansion is located at 2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Andrew Carnegie built his mansion in 1903 and lived there until his death in 1919; his wife, Louise, lived there until her death in 1946. The building is now the Cooper-Hewitt,...
, 2 East 91st Street, New York City, designed to be "most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York" - New York Life Insurance Building, Montreal, which was the tallest building in the province of Quebec from 1888 to 1908
- "The Clearing", a Colonial Revival estate house built around 1889 for John Hornor Wisner, a merchant in the China trade, at what is now the Reeves-Reed ArboretumReeves-Reed ArboretumThe Reeves-Reed Arboretum is a nonprofit arboretum and garden located at 165 Hobart Avenue in Summit, New Jersey. It is the only arboretum in Union County...
- Devinne Press BuildingDevinne Press BuildingThe DeVinne Press Building, located at 393-399 Lafayette Street at the corner of East 4th Street, in the NoHo district of lower Manhattan, New York City, is a brick structure, built in 1885-1886 and designed by the firm of Babb, Cook & Willard in Romanesque Revival style...
, built 1885-1886, listed on the National Register of Historic PlacesNational Register of Historic PlacesThe National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation... - About six of 39 Carnegie libraries built in New York City
- Frederick B. Pratt House, in Brooklyn, New York, completed in 1898 in a neo-Georgian style
- Charles Atwater House at 321 Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, a significant Shingle style house in the Whitney Avenue Historic DistrictWhitney Avenue Historic District__notoc__The Whitney Avenue Historic District is a historic district in New Haven, Connecticut. It is a district which included 1,084 contributing buildings when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989....