Cobb and Frost was an American

architectural firm In the United States, an architectural firm or architecture firm is a business that employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture; while in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and other countri ...

. Cobb and Frost was founded in

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

Henry Ives Cobb Henry Ives Cobb (August 19, 1859 – March 27, 1931) was an architect from the United States. Based in Chicago in the last decades of the 19th century, he was known for his designs in the Richardsonian Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles. ...

and

Charles Sumner Frost Charles Sumner Frost (May 31, 1856 – December 11, 1931) was an American architect. He is best known as the architect of Navy Pier and for designing over 100 buildings for the Chicago and North Western Railway. Biography Born in Lewiston, Mai ...

in 1882. The firm was dissolved in 1889 when Cobb began work on designing the

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. Their most famous building was the Palmer Mansion, designed for Chicago industrialist

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, 1882 *Chicago & North Western Railway Station, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1884 *

Chicago Opera House The Chicago Opera House was a theater complex in Chicago, Illinois, designed by the architectural firm of Cobb and Frost. The Chicago Opera House building took the cue provided by the Metropolitan Opera of New York as a mixed-used building: it h ...

, 1884-5 *Chicago & Alton Railway Station, Dwight, Illinois, 1885 * Cable House, 1886 * Chicago & North Western Railway Station, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1887 * Harriet F. Rees House, 1888 *

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, 1888 * Union Depot, 201 South Main Street,

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, 1888 *Chicago & North Western Railway Station, Wheaton, Illinois

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