Tracy and Swartwout

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Tracy and Swartwout was a prominent New York architectural firm headed by Evarts Tracy and Edgerton Swartwout, responsible for commissions, including the Beaux Arts Missouri State Capital.

Buildings include:

  • 1900: Former Yale Club, now the Penn Club, 30 W. 44th Street, New York [[1]][[2]]
  • 1905-11: St. John's Cathedral, Denver,(National Register 8/1/1975, 5DV.171) [[3]]
  • 1906: Pliny Fisk House, New York (11, 13, 15 E. 45th Street) [[4]]
  • 1912: Skull & Bones, cloister-garden for the Yale secret society, New Haven, CT. Evarts Tracy is believed to have been an 1890 member of the society. [[5]]
  • 1915: George Washington Memorial Hall, Washington DC [[6]]
  • 1917: Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City MO
  • undated: The Webster hotel, 40 W. 45th St., New York , (National Register of Historic Places, added 1984 - Building - #84002806)[[7]]


Evarts Tracy was the son of first cousins Jeremiah Evarts Tracy and Martha Sherman Greene. His paternal grandmother Martha Sherman Evarts and maternal grandmother Mary Evarts were the sisters of William Maxwell Evarts (S&B 1837).