Tracy and Swartwout

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
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