Guilbert and Betelle

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Columbia High School, Maplewood, New Jersey.
Columbia High School, Maplewood, New Jersey.

Guilbert and Betelle was an architecture firm formed as a partnership of Ernest F. Guilbert and James Oscar Betelle. The firm specialized in design of schools on the East Coast of the United States, with an emphasis on the "Collegiate Gothic" style.

Betelle took over the firm after Guilbert died in 1916, and oversaw design of hundreds of schools. Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut and the Radburn School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The firm was the architect for other notable buildings including the Essex County Hall of Records, the Robert Treat and Alexander Hamilton hotels, and the Essex Club (now home of the New Jersey Historical Society) and the Chamber of Commerce Building in Newark, New Jersey.[1]

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[edit] Structures

The following is a list of structures designed by the firm, ordered by state and locality:[2]

[edit] Connecticut

Greenwich:
  • Cos Cob School, c. 1916
  • Greenwich High School (Greenwich Town Hall), c. 1925
New Britain:
  • State Normal School (Davidson Hall, CCSU), c. 1922

[edit] Delaware

  • Pierre S. duPont Rural Schools, c. 1919-1921
  • Charles B. Lore School ('Lorelton' assisted living home), c. 1932

[edit] New Jersey

East Orange:
Jersey City:
  • State Normal School at Jersey City, c. 1930
Newark:
  • Newark Central High School, c. 1912
  • Chamber of Commerce Building, c. 1923
  • Cleveland School, c. 1913
  • East Side High School, c. 1911
  • The Essex Club (New Jersey Historical Society), c. 1926
  • Essex County Boys Vocational School, c. 1931
  • Essex County Girls Vocational School, c. 1930
  • Essex County Hall of Records, c. 1926
  • Home of Ernest F. Guilbert, c. 1910
  • Home of Franklin Murphy, Jr., c. 1925
  • Newark Normal School, c. 1913
  • Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, c. 1931
  • Ridge Street School, c. 1913
  • Robert Treat Hotel, c. 1916
  • South Side High School, c. 1913
  • Weequahic High School, c. 1932
  • West Side High School, c. 1926
South Orange and Maplewood:
  • Clinton Elementary, c. 1929
  • Columbia High School, c. 1927
  • First Street School, c. 1924
  • Jefferson Elementary, c. 1924
  • Montrose Elementary, c. 1924
  • Maplewood Junior High, c.1930
  • Maplewood Municipal Building, c.1931
  • Marshall Elementary, c.1922
  • South Mountain Elementary, c.1929
  • Tuscan Elementary, c. 1924
Summit:
  • Franklin Elementary
  • Jefferson Elementary
  • Summit High School (Summit Middle School), c. 1923
  • Washington Elementary, c. 1931
Vineland:
  • Vineland High School (the Landis School), c. 1927[1]
  • Thomas A. Edison Jr. High, c. 1927
West Orange

[edit] New York

New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, New York
New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, New York
Bronxville
  • The Bronxville School, c. 1930
Great Neck
New Rochelle
Tarrytown
  • Washington Irving School, c. 1925

[edit] Pennsylvania

Williamsport:
  • Thaddeus Stevens Jr. High School, c. 1927
  • Science Hall, Lincoln University, c. 1925

[edit] Research project

A research project entitled "James Betelle, Where Are You?" is currently underway to build a cohesive biographical and professional history of Betelle, whose records have been mostly lost, misplaced or neglected over the years.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Architecture, Vineland Public Schools. Accessed June 7, 2008.
  2. ^ James Betelle, Where Are You? website

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