Trowbridge & Livingston

Trowbridge & Livingston was an architectural practice based in New York City in the early 20th-century. The firm's partners were Samuel Beck Parkman Trowbridge and Goodhue Livingston.[1]

Trowbridge & Livingston
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The Oregon State Capital
Practice information
FoundersSamuel Beck Parkman Trowbridge
Goodhue Livingston
Founded1897
Dissolved1925
LocationNew York City, New York, U.S.
AffiliationsTrowbridge, Livingston & Colt

Often commissioned by well-heeled clients, much of the firm's work was built in the Upper East Side and Financial District neighborhoods of New York. Founded in 1894, the firm became known for its commercial, public, and institutional buildings, many in a Beaux Arts or neoclassical style. Some examples are the B. Altman and Company Building (1905), J. P. Morgan Building (1913), and the Oregon State Capitol (1938).

Partner biographies

Trowbridge (1862–1925), was the fourth of eight children born to William Petit Trowbridge and Lucy Parkman Trowbridge. His father was a military engineer who oversaw construction of Fort Totten Battery, and repairs to Fort Schuyler during the American Civil War. After the War, he became professor of mechanical engineering at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1871, then at the Columbia School of Mines in 1877.[2] The younger Trowbridge studied at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.[3] On graduating in 1883, he attended Columbia University, and later studied abroad at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[3] On his return to New York, he entered the office of George B. Post.[3] Trowbridge worked in the firm for over 30 years, until his death in 1925.

Goodhue Livingston (1867–1951), from a distinguished family of colonial New York, received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia during the same period Trowbridge was at the school.

Firm activity
Bankers Trust Company Building, NYC

In 1894, Trowbridge, Livingston and Colt formed a partnership that lasted until 1897 when Stockton B. Colt left, and the firm became Trowbridge & Livingston.[3]

Its major commissions were received between 1901 and 1938, most in a Beaux Arts or neoclassical style. The majority of the firm's work was in New York City, where the firm designed several notable public and commercial buildings. Among the most famous are the neo-Baroque St. Regis New York (1904).[4] and the B. Altman and Company Building (1906), both on Fifth Avenue.[5] In particular, nearly all of the buildings at the intersection of Wall, Broad, and Nassau Streets in Manhattan's Financial District were designed by the firm: 14 Wall Street (1912), the Bankers Trust Building on the northwest corner; 11 Wall Street (1922), the New York Stock Exchange Annex on the southwest corner; and 23 Wall Street (1913) and 15 Broad Street (1927), the J. P. Morgan & Co. Building on the southwest corner.[6]

Their practice extended to townhouses on Manhattan's Upper East Side, of which 41 East 65 Street (1910), 11 East 91st Street and 49 East 68th Street (1914) remain. The New York Society Library, a lending library with a long genteel tradition in New York, moved into the former John Rogers House at 53 East 79th Street.

Projects

New York City projects

Projects outside New York City

References
  1. "Trowbridge & Livingston". New York Architecture. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  2. Trowbridge, Francis Bacon (1908). The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America. Vol. 1. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. pp. 608–609. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  3. "B. Altman & Company Department Store Building" (PDF). The Graduate Center, CUNY. City University of New York. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  4. White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 334. ISBN 978-0-19-977291-9
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  6. Stern, Robert A. M.; Gilmartin, Patrick; Mellins, Thomas (1987). New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars. New York: Rizzoli. p. 535. ISBN 978-0-8478-3096-1. OCLC 13860977.
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  23. "Bixby Memorial Free Library". Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia. 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  24. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  25. "St. Elizabeth's Chapel". Tuxedo Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved July 28, 2021.
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