Trowbridge & Livingston was an
architecture firm based in
New York City, active from 1897 to 1925. The firm's partners were Breck Trowbridge and
Goodhue Livingston.[1] They were successors to the firm Trowbridge, Colt & Livingston, founded in 1894 but dissolved in 1897 when
Stockton B. Colt left the partnership.
The younger Trowbridge graduated in 1883 from
Trinity College in
Hartford, Connecticut,[3] and in 1886 from
Columbia University's School of Architecture. After further study abroad at the
American School of Classical Studies in
Athens and at the
École des Beaux-Arts in Paris,[3] he returned to New York where he worked in the office of
George B. Post for four years,[3] before practicing in partnership from 1894 with Livingston and Stockton B. Colt, and from 1897 with Livingston, after Colt left the firm. Trowbridge died of pneumonia at his home in New York City on January 29, 1925.
Goodhue Livingston
Goodhue Livingston was born in New York City on February 23, 1867, the son of Robert Edward Livingston and his wife, Susan DePeyster.[4] He graduated from Columbia College (1888), and from Columbia University's School of Mines (1892).
Firm activity
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).[5] and the
B. Altman and Company Building (1906), both on Fifth Avenue.[6] 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.[7]
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.
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