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.
Selected buildings
- Palmer Mansion, 1882
- Chicago & North Western Railway Station, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1884[2]
- Chicago Opera House, 1884-5
- Chicago & Alton Railway Station, Dwight, Illinois, 1885[3]
- Cable House, 1886
- Chicago & North Western Railway Station, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1887[2]
- Harriet F. Rees House, 1888
- Dearborn Observatory, 1888
- Union Depot, 201 South Main Street, Leavenworth, Kansas, 1888[4]
- Chicago & North Western Railway Station, Wheaton, Illinois[2]
References
- ↑ The Architectural History of the Newberry Library, The Newberry Library Bulletin, November 1962, By Houghton Wetherold Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine.
- 1 2 3 Buildings and Structures of American Railroads: A Reference Book for Railroad Managers, Superintendents, Master Mechanics, Engineers, Architects, and Students. J. Wiley & Sons. 1893-01-01. p. 325.
- ↑ Marter, Joan M. (2011-01-01). The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. Oxford University Press. p. 495. ISBN 9780195335798.
- ↑ Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 328. ISBN 978-0471143895.
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