Guilbert and Betelle was an

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

firm formed as a partnership of Ernest F. Guilbert and James Oscar Betelle. The firm specialized in design of schools on the

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, with an emphasis on the "

Collegiate Gothic Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europ ...

" style. Betelle took over the firm after Guilbert died in 1916, and oversaw design of hundreds of schools, including

Greenwich High School Greenwich High School is a four-year public high school in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The school is part of the Greenwich Public Schools system and serves roughly 2,700 students. It offers over 295 courses and a wide variety of co-cu ...

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and the Radburn School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, both of which are listed on the

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. Other notable buildings for which the firm was responsible include the Essex County Hall of Records and the Essex Club (now home of the New Jersey Historical Society).Architecture
, Vineland Public Schools. Accessed September 13, 2008.

Structures

The following is a list of structures designed by the firm, ordered by state and locality:

Connecticut

Glenville School (Greenwich, Connecticut) The Glenville School is a historic school building at 449 Pemberwick Road in the Glenville section of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It was one of several schools built ...

(NRHP-listed) * Greenwich: : Cos Cob School, c. 1916 : Greenwich High School (Greenwich Town Hall), c. 1925 *

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: : State Normal School (Davidson Hall, CCSU), c. 1922

Delaware

: Pierre S. duPont Rural Schools, c. 1919-1921 : William P. Bancroft School, c.1928 : Charles B. Lore School ('Lorelton' assisted living home), c. 1932 Lore School DE

New Jersey

East Orange East Orange is a City (New Jersey), city in Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 69,612. The city was List of municipalities in ...

: :

East Orange High School East Orange High School was a comprehensive community public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from 1891 to 2002 in East Orange, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. For most of its existence, the school ...

(demolished), c. 1911 *

Jersey City Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.State Normal School at Jersey City, c. 1930 *

Newark Newark most commonly refers to: * Newark, New Jersey, city in the United States * Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey; a major air hub in the New York metropolitan area Newark may also refer to: Places Canada * Niagara-on-the ...

: : Newark Central High School, c. 1912 : Chamber of Commerce Building, c. 1923 : Cleveland School, c. 1913 : East Side High School, c. 1911 : The

Essex Club Essex () is a Ceremonial counties of England, county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the Riv ...

(New Jersey Historical Society), c. 1926 (NRHP-listed) : Essex County Boys Vocational School, c. 1931 : Essex County Girls Vocational School, c. 1930 : Essex County Hall of Records, c. 1926 : Home of Ernest F. Guilbert, c. 1910 : Home of Franklin Murphy, Jr., c. 1925 : Newark Normal School, c. 1913 (currently Technology High School) :

Newark Public School of Fine and Industrial Arts Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art (NSFIA) was a city-run vocational and art school in Newark, New Jersey. Opened in 1882 as the Evening Drawing School, its name was changed in 1909 to the Fawcett School of Industrial Arts, and changed agai ...

, c. 1931 : Ridge Street School, c. 1913 :

Robert Treat Hotel The Robert Treat Center is an office and hotel complex in Newark, New Jersey, named for Robert Treat, who founded the city in 1666. One building originally opened as the Robert Treat Hotel in 1916. The landmark was later converted to an office bui ...

, c. 1916 : South Side High School, c. 1913 (currently Malcolm X Shabazz High School) :

Weequahic High School Weequahic High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in the Weequahic section of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The school is operated by the Newar ...

, c. 1932 : West Side High School, c. 1926 *

South Orange South Orange, officially the Township of South Orange Village, is a suburban township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village's population was 16,198, reflecting a decline of 766 (4.5%) fro ...

and Maplewood: : Clinton Elementary, c. 1929 :

Columbia High School Columbia High School may refer to: *Columbia High School (Huntsville, Alabama) *Columbia High School (Georgia) *Columbia High School (Florida) *Columbia High School (Idaho) *Columbia High School (Illinois) *Columbia High School (Mississippi), a Mis ...

, c. 1927 : First Street School, c. 1924 : Jefferson Elementary, c. 1924 : Montrose Elementary, c. 1924 : Maplewood Junior High, c.1930 : Maplewood Municipal Building, c.1931 : Marshall Elementary, c.1922 : South Mountain Elementary, c.1929 : Tuscan Elementary, c. 1924 *

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: Franklin Elementary : Jefferson Elementary : Summit High School (Summit Middle School), c. 1923 : Washington Elementary, c. 1931 *

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: : Vineland High School (the Landis School), c. 1927 : Thomas A. Edison Jr. High, c. 1927 * West Orange : West Orange High School ( Seton Hall Preparatory School)

New York

Bronxville Bronxville is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States, located approximately north of Midtown Manhattan. It is part of the town of Eastchester. The village comprises one square mile (2.5 km2) of land in its entirety, ...

: The Bronxville School, c. 1930 *

Great Neck Great Neck is a region on Long Island, New York, that covers a peninsula on the North Shore and includes nine villages, among them Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, Kings Point, and Russell Gardens, and a number of unincor ...

Great Neck High School John L. Miller Great Neck North High School or simply "Great Neck North," is a public high school, including grades 9 through 12, in the village of Great Neck, New York, operated by the Great Neck School District. As of the 2018–19 school yea ...

, c. 1926 * New Rochelle : New Rochelle High School, c. 1926 * Tarrytown : Washington Irving School, c. 1925

Pennsylvania

* Williamsport: : Thaddeus Stevens Jr. High School, c. 1927 : Science Hall, Lincoln University, c. 1925

NRHP-listed

Duplicative to the above, the buildings designed by these architects which survive and are listed on the

(NRHP) are: *

, Address Restricted Newark NJ Guilbert & Betelle *

, 449 Pemberwick Rd. Greenwich CT Betelle, James Oscar * Iron Hill School No. 112C, 1335

Old Baltimore Pike Old Baltimore Pike is a road in the U.S. state of Delaware. The road, known as New Castle County Road 26, runs from Maryland Route 281 (MD 281) at the Maryland state line south of Newark, Delaware and continues east to Christi ...

, Pencader Hundred Newark DE Betelle, James Oscar * Charles B. Lore Elementary School, Fourth St. and Woodlawn Ave. Wilmington DE Guilbert and Betelle *One or more buildings in Military Park (Newark) Commons Historic District, Roughly bounded by Washington Pl., McCarter Hwy, E. Park St. and Raymond Blvd. Newark NJ Guilbert and Betelle * New Jersey Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, N of Burlington Rd., W of I-295 Bordentown NJ Guilbert & Betelle * Public School No. 111-C, DE 7 Christiana DE Betelle, James O. *

Ross Point School Ross Point School was a historic rural, African-American school building located near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. Funding for the building was provided by Pierre S. du Pont. It was built in 1922, and was a rectangular, one-story wood-frame ...

, Road 448 near Jct. with Road 62 Laurel DE Guilbert and Betelle * Vineland High School, 61 W. Landis Ave. Vineland NJ Betelle, J.O.

External links

"James Betelle, Where Are You?"
- biographical and professional history of Betelle.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guilbert And Betelle Defunct architecture firms based in New Jersey Defunct architecture firms based in New York (state) Design companies established in 1906 Companies based in Newark, New Jersey Gothic Revival architects American companies established in 1906