Cobb and Frost

The Palmer Mansion
The Chicago Opera House

Cobb and Frost was an American architectural firm. Cobb and Frost was founded in Chicago, Illinois by Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost in 1882. The firm was dissolved in 1889 when Cobb began work on designing the Newberry Library.[1] Their most famous building was the Palmer Mansion, designed for Chicago industrialist Potter Palmer.

References

  1. ↑ The Architectural History of the Newberry Library, The Newberry Library Bulletin, November 1962, By Houghton Wetherold

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