Tracy and Swartwout
Tracy and Swartwout was a prominent New York architectural firm headed by Evarts Tracy and Egerton Swartwout.
History
Evarts Tracy (1868–1922) 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. Evarts Tracey graduated from Yale in 1890.
Egerton Swartwout (1870–1943) was the first son of Satterlee Swartwout and Charlotte Elizabeth Edgerton (daughter of Ohio Representative Alfred Peck Edgerton). Swartwout graduated from Yale University in 1891. Both he and Tracy had trained and worked as draftsmen with the renowned firm, McKim, Mead and White. Egerton Swartwout was awarded the gold medal in 1920 by the American Institute of Architects.[1] He developed guidelines for judging architectural competitions for the American Institute of Architects, sat on the American Battle Monuments Commission, and served as vice chairman of the National Commission of Arts.
From 1904-1909, Tracy and Swartwout were joined by architect James Riely Gordon, forming the firm Gordon, Tracy & Swartwout.
In 1909-1912 the firm was joined by Electus Darwin Litchfield, a graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the Stevens Institute of Technology. The firm was at this time named Tracy, Swartwout & Litchfield.
Evarts Tracy died of January 31, 1922, in France, of chronic myocarditis. Swartwout continued working. Egerton Swartwout is responsible for building the Mary Baker Eddy Memorial (1915) in Mount Auburn Cemetery, the Elks National Veterans Memorial in Chicago (1923-1926), the National Baptist Memorial Church in Washington, D.C. (1924), a bridge addition to the Yale University Art Gallery (1926-1927), the Macon City Auditorium (1928), and the Bailey Fountain in Grand Army Plaza, New York City (1929-1932).[2] and with associate architect, H.B. Cresswell, also designed the Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial (28 miles southwest of London England), for the American Battle Monuments Commission in 1929. Egerton Swartwout died in New York on February 18, 1943.
Buildings include:
| Date | Name | Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | Former Yale Club | 30 W. 44th Street, New York | Now the Penn Club | |
| 1902 | The Webster Hotel | 40 West 45th Street, New York | Added to National Register of Historic Places, 1984 | |
| 1903 | Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center | Park Ave. and Randolph Road Plainfield, NJ | currently in danger of being demolished http://www.preservationnj.org/site/ExpEng/index.php?/ten_most_11/index_detail/Tracy_&_Swartwout_Buildings_at_Muhlenberg_Regional_Medical_Center | |
| 1906 | Pliny Fisk House | New York City (11, 13, 15 E. 45th Street) | ||
| 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 | |
| 1905-1907 | National Metropolitan Bank Building | Washington, D.C. | designed by B. Stanley Simmons added to National Register of Historic Places, 1978 | |
| 1907-1909 | Somerset County Courthouse | Somerville, New Jersey | ||
| 1908-1911 | Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, Denver | Denver, Colorado | Added to National Register of Historic Places, 1975 | |
| 1915 | George Washington Memorial Hall | Washington, D.C. | construction was started but never completed | |
| 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 |
References
Links
http://www.arti-fact.com/architect/2485
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=85234791