Henry Ives Cobb

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Henry Ives Cobb (August 19, 1859 – March 27, 1931), born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles. Henry Ives Cobb's grandmother, Augusta Adams Cobb, controversially abandoned her husband, Henry Cobb, and seven of her nine children in 1843, and married Brigham Young as a plural wife.

Cobb designed Potter Palmer's mansion on Lake Shore Drive, the Chicago Varnish Company Building which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Chicago Landmark, the Chicago Federal Building, the Newberry Library, the Fisheries Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, and many pre-1900 buildings at Lake Forest College and the University of Chicago. He co-designed the King Edward Hotel in Toronto.^[1] Cobb left Chicago in 1898 to seek a warmer climate for his children.

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1. ^ The King Edward Hotel. Online Plaque Guide. Ontario Heritage Trust (2006-02-28). Retrieved on 2007-12-25.