Tracy and Swartwout was a prominent New York architectural firm headed by Evarts Tracy and Egerton Swartwout. 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 M. Evarts. In 1908 firm would be joined by Electus Darwin Litchfield, a graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the Stevens Institute of Technology. Both Tracy and Swartwout were graduates of Yale University and had trained and worked as draftsmen for the renowned firm, McKim, Mead and White.
Buildings include:
Date | Name | Location | Notes |
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1900 | Former Yale Club | 30 W. 44th Street, New York | Now the Penn Club |
1905–1911 | Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, Denver | Denver, Colorado | Added to National Register of Historic Places, 1975 |
1906 | Pliny Fisk House | New York City (11, 13, 15 E. 45th Street) | [1] |
1906 | Skull and Bones, cloister-garden | New Haven, Connecticut | For the Yale University secret society. Evarts Tracy is believed to have been an 1890 member of the society, and William M. Evarts was an 1837 member [2] |
1915 | George Washington Memorial Hall | Washington, D.C. | [3] |
1916 | U.S. Post Office and Federal Building | Denver, Colorado | Added to National Register of Historic Places, 1973 |
1917 | Missouri State Capitol | Jefferson City, Missouri | Beaux-Arts |
1919 | Ridgewood High School | Ridgewood, New Jersey | |
1902 | The Webster Hotel | 40 West 45th Street, New York | Added to National Register of Historic Places, 1984 |