Henry Ives Cobb born in Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732.-Etymology:...

 to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

 in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque

Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterised by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque architecture, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 10th century. It developed in the 12th century into the Gothic style,...

 and Victorian Gothic styles. Henry Ives Cobb's grandmother, Augusta Adams Cobb, controversially abandoned her husband, Henry Cobb, and seven of her nine children in 1843, and married Brigham Young

Brigham Young

Brigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah...

 as a plural wife.

Cobb and his partner Charles S. Frost designed Potter Palmer

Potter Palmer

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's mansion

Palmer Mansion

The Palmer Mansion, constructed 1882–1885 at 1350 N. Lake Shore Drive, was once the largest private residence in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Near North Side neighborhood and facing Lake Michigan. It was designed by architects Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost of the firm Cobb and Frost...

 (now demolished) on Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive is a mostly freeway-standard expressway running parallel with and alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan through Chicago, Illinois, USA. Except for the portion north of Foster Avenue , Lake Shore Drive is designated as part of U.S...

, the Chicago Varnish Company Building

Chicago Varnish Company Building

The Chicago Varnish Company Building, at 33 West Kinzie Street, was built in 1895 as the headquarters of one of the leading varnish manufacturers in the United States, the Chicago Varnish Company...

 which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 and as a Chicago Landmark

Chicago Landmark

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, the Episcopal Church of the Atonement at 5749 N. Kenmore Avenue (also on the National Register of Historic Places), the Chicago Federal Building

Chicago Federal Building

The Chicago Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois was constructed between 1898 and 1905 for the purpose of housing the midwest's federal courts, main post office, and other government bureaus. It stood in The Loop neighborhood on a block bounded by Dearborn, Adams and Clark Streets and Jackson...

 (now demolished), the Newberry Library

Newberry Library

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, the Fisheries Building (now demolished) at the World's Columbian Exposition

World's Columbian Exposition

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, and many pre-1900 buildings at Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College, founded in 1857, is a private liberal arts college in Lake Forest, Illinois. The college has 1,500 students representing 47 states and 78 countries....

 and the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. He also co-designed the King Edward Hotel

King Edward Hotel (Toronto)

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 in Toronto

Toronto

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 and Liberty Tower

Liberty Tower (New York)

The Liberty Tower is a historic building located at 55 Liberty Street in New York City. It was designed by architect Henry Ives Cobb and built in 1909. The building is 33-stories tall and is clad in white glazed terra cotta and limestone....

 in downtown Manhattan

Manhattan

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 a Perpendicular Style Skyscraper

Skyscraper

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 that has been converted to residences. Cobb moved to Washington, DC, in 1897 to escape the Chicago grime, which damaged his cherished art collection.

Works

Building	Location	Dates	Notes	Image
King Edward Hotel	King Street East and Jarvis Street, Toronto	1903	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb Henry Ives Cobb Henry Ives Cobb , born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles...  and E. J. Lennox E. J. Lennox Edward James Lennox was a Toronto-based architect who designed several of the city's most notable landmarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries including Old City Hall and Casa Loma...  for George Gooderham’s Toronto Hotel Company
Chicago Athletic Association Building	South Michigan avenue, Chicago	1893	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb Henry Ives Cobb Henry Ives Cobb , born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles...