James Brown Lord was an American architect, working in a Beaux-Arts idiom, with a practice in New York City

New York City

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. His Appellate Court House was his most prominent commission, noted at the time of his premature death, at the age of forty-three. He designed one of the first of the Carnegie libraries, the Yorkville Branch of the New York Public Library

New York Public Library

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, at 222 East 79th Street

79th Street (Manhattan)

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 (illustration).

Lord was from a prominent New York family the son of James Couper Lord and grandson of Daniel Lord, a prominent lawyer in New York. His mother was a daughter of James Brown, founder of the firm that became Brown Brothers Harriman. He graduated from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1879 and apprenticed in the architectural office of William A. Potter. He was a member of the Tuxedo Club and designed many of the buildings at Tuxedo Park

Tuxedo Park

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, New York.

He married Mary Townsend Nicoll, of a distinguished New York family and was a member of the Metropolitan Club, the Union League, the Players Club, the Racquet Club and professionally of the American Institute of Architects

American Institute of Architects

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 and the National Academy of Design

National Academy of Design

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. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery

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, Brooklyn.

Selected commissions

His early commissions, from 1883, were for residences in New York; Yonkers, Roslyn, Long Island; Tuxedo Park, New York; and Bar Harbor, Maine.

• King Model Houses, West 138 to West 139 Streets, between 7th and 8th Avenues. 1890. Conjointly with Stanford White
  Stanford White
  Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found...
  
   and Bruce Price
  Bruce Price
  Bruce Price was the American architect of many of the Canadian Pacific Railway's Château-type stations and hotels...
  
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• Delmonico's, 56 Beaver Street (1890), and Delmonico's Fifth Avenue (1896, demolished).
• Appellate Court, Madison Square
  Madison Square
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  , New York. 1900.
• Society of New York Hospital for the Insane (Bloomingdale Asylum), White Plains, New York. 1894
• New York Infant Asylum, Amsterdam Avenue and West 61st Street, New York (1901, demolished)
• Brookside Cottage, Tuxedo Park, New York (1892)