Isaac Newton Phelps-Stokes

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I.N. Phelps Stokes standing behind his wife Edith née Minturn, (painting by John Singer Sargent commissioned by INPS circa 1897)
I.N. Phelps Stokes standing behind his wife Edith née Minturn, (painting by John Singer Sargent commissioned by INPS circa 1897)

Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (b. 1867 d. 1944) was an American architect. He designed St-Paul's Chapel at Columbia University and several urban housing projects in New York City. Sanger Hill, a New York State country house in the English manner, represents his private housing work.

He authored a six volume work entitled The Iconography of Manhattan Island, published between 1915 and 1928 and later became a political ally and then a friend of Fiorello H. LaGuardia.

In 1910, Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes dismantled a large timber framed house, formerly the Queens Head, located next to what is now the A140 Ipswich to Norwich route in Thwaite, Suffolk, UK. He transported it in 688 crates from Tilbury Docks to the USA, where it was re-constructed using the timbers of a wrecked English ship, on a hill overlooking Long Island Sound near Greenwich, Connecticut. It was re-named High Low House - (one of its former names whilst standing in Thwaite).

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