Building Details

Frank M. Snyder
Introduction by Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker

Overview – Contents

Includes building details from these major projects and architects:

• University Club, New York, McKim, Mead and White
• United States Immigration Station, New York, Boring and Tilton
• Union County Court House, Elizabeth, New Jersey, Ackerman and Ross
• Columbus Public Library, Columbus, Ohio, Albert Randolph Ross
• Mrs. Dow’s School, Briarcliff Manor, New York, H. Van Buren Magonigle
• Port Jervis Public Library, Port Jervis, New York, Ackerman and Ross
• United States Custom House, New York, Cass Gilbert
• Stable at Tarrytown, New York, York and Sawyer
• Residence of Mrs. H. B. Jacobs, Newport, Rhode Island, John Russell Pope
• Residence of George D. Wick, Esq., Youngstown, Pennsylvania, Charles Barton Keen
• Residence of Dr. George Roe Lockwood, New York, Hiss and Weeks
• Residence of James B. Ladd, Esq., Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Wilson Eyre
• The Home Club, New York, Gordon, Tracy and Swartwout
• Residence of Daniel Pomeroy, Esq., Englewood, New Jersey, Aymar Embury 2nd
• Stable for J. W. McClure, Esq., Chester, Pennsylvania, Seymour Davis and Paul A. Davis 3rd
• Residence of the Misses Thompson, New York, Henry Bacon
• Stable of Alexander Simpson, Jr., Esq., Merion, Pennsylvania, Walter F. Price
• Residence of Samuel Emlen, Jr., Esq., Germantown, Pennsylvania, Cope and Stewardson
• Residence of Dr. Marsden, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, Charles Barton Keen
• Residence of Miss Dunning, Briarcliff Manor, New York, H. Van Buren Magonigle
• Residence of Mrs. A. B. Trowbridge, Port Washington, New York, Trowbridge and Ackerman
• Residence of Mrs. V. L. M. Ewing, Tarrytown, New York, Ewing and Chappel
• Residence of Charles Dana Gibson, Esq., New York, McKim, Mead and White
• Residence of Mrs. James Roosevelt, New York, Charles A. Platt
• Estate of Tracy Dows, Esq., Rhinebeck, New York, Albro and Lindeberg
• Symphony Hall, Boston, McKim, Mead and White
• Bronx Church House, New York, Bosworth and Holden
• Residence of Mrs. Robert E. Irwin, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, H. Van Buren Magonigle
• Connecticut Savings Bank, New Haven, Connecticut, Gordon, Tracy and Swartwout
• Gorham Building, New York, McKim, Mead and White
• Fifth Avenue Building, New York, Maynicke and Franke
• Unitarian Church, West Newton, Massachusetts, Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson
• Residence of Albert Geiger, Jr., Esq., Brookline, Massachusetts, Frank Chouteau Brown
• Residence of A. C. Potter, Esq., Cambridge, Massachusetts, Richard Arnold Fisher
• Entrance to Police Station, Middlesex Fells Reservation, Boston, Stickney and Austin
• Store and Office Building, New York, J. R. Hinchman and Walker and Hazzard
• Estate of W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Great Neck, New York, John Russell Pope
• Knickerbocker Trust Co., New York, McKim, Mead and White
• Studio Building, New York. Charles A. Platt
• The Broadway Savings Institution, Park Place, New York, York and Sawyer
• Household Arts Building, Teachers College, New York, Parish and Schroeder
• Gymnasium of University of Pennsylvania, Frank Miles Day and Bro.
• 712 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
• The Governors Suite, City Hall, New York, John McComb, Jr., Restoration by Grosvenor Atterbury
• Entrance to Residence of George E. Hyatt, Esq., 157 Willow Street, Brooklyn, New York
• Residence of Russell H. Carter, Esq., Hewlett, New York, Albro and Lindeberg
• Residence of B. Van H. Schultz, Esq., Short Hills, New Jersey, Wilson Eyre
• 33 MacDougal Street, New York
• Estate of the Hon. Franklin Murphy, Mendham, New Jersey, H. Van Buren Magonigle
• 31 Washington Square West, New York
• Residence of John Vicario, Esq., Great Neck, New York, Foster, Gade and Graham
• Hillside Grammar School, Montclair, New Jersey, Hale and Rogers
• The Little Theatre, New York, H. C. Ingalls and F. B. Hoffman
• Iron Fence Railings of Old New York
• Wetzel Building, New York, Hill and Stout

With a DVD-ROM containing printable TIFF files of all the details.

About the Authors

Frank Miles Snyder (1867–1939) was a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and worked in the offices of McKim, Mead & White, John Russell Pope, and Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson during his career. He contributed drawings and plates for the National Terra Cotta Society’s Architectural Terra Cotta Standard Construction (1914) and published Details to Which Standard Hardware Can Be Applied in 1917.

Peter Pennoyer is the principal of the eponymous architecture firm that has a national practice in classical and traditional architecture. Pennoyer and his twenty associates have designed houses and institutional projects from New York to California. The firm’s work is recognized for combining an inventive spirit with an erudite grasp of architectural history and has been widely published and exhibited. Pennoyer serves on the boards of the Institute for Classical Architecture and Classical America, the Morgan Library, and the Whiting Foundation. He is the coauthor of The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich and The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore.

Anne Walker holds a master’s degree in historic preservation from Columbia University. She is the coauthor of The Ford Plantation Architectural Pattern Book,The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich and The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore.

ISBN 10: 0-393-73240-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-73245-0
120 illustrations / 144 pages / hardcover + DVD-ROM
October 2007