Babb, Cook & Willard was a New York City-based architectural firm established in 1884 that designed many important houses and commercial buildings. The principals of the firm were George Fletcher Babb (1836–1915), Walter Cook (1843–1916), and Daniel W. Willard.[1] Willard left the firm in 1908, and was replaced by Winthrop A. Welch. The firm was subsequently renamed Babb, Cook and Welch until 1912, when it became Cook and Welch.[2]
Walter Cook
Partner Walter Cook was born in New York and graduated from Harvard College in 1869.[3] He further studied at the Royal Polytechnic School in Munich and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[3] He returned to New York in 1877 and worked there as an architect until he died on March 25, 1916, aged 70.[3]
Works
Frederick B. Pratt House
Andrew Carnegie Mansion, 2 East 91st Street, New York City, designed to be "most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York"
"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 Arboretum
William S. Ingraham House in the Federal Hill Historic District of Bristol, Connecticut. The 25-room Shingle-Style home was built in 1890 and heated by pipes connected to the E. Ingraham Company[4][5]
^ a bWoodrow W. Wilkins and Jonathan B. Conant (July 27, 1964). "Atwater-Ciampolini House, 321 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, New Haven County, CT". Historic American Buildings Survey. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Archived from the original on May 10, 2024. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
^ a b c"Obituary: Walter Cook". American Art News. 1 April 1916. p. 2. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
^"National Register of Historic Places–Inventory Nomination Form" (PDF). United States Department of the Interior National Park Service. July 20, 1986. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 25, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
^Russell, Lynda (2006). Bristol Historic Homes. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-7385-3919-5.
^"Timeline". Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County. Archived from the original on 2022-11-06. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
External links
Media related to Babb, Cook & Willard at Wikimedia Commons