Edward Lippincott Tilton (19 October 1861 – 5 January 1933) was an American architect, with a practice in

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, where he was born. He specialized in the design of libraries, completing about one hundred in the U.S. and Canada, including many Carnegie libraries and structures for educational institutions.Lisa B. Mausolf and Elizabeth Durfee Hengen, "Edward Lippincott Tilton: A Monograph on His Architectural Practice", 2007
(pdf file) In about 1881 Tilton abandoned a budding career in banking to work as a draftsman in the office of

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, a traditional apprenticeship for which he prepared with a private tutor in architecture and which prepared him for a course of further study at the

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, Paris (1887–1890). Early commissions came through family connections; they included the casino (1891–92) in Belle Haven, an affluent shoreline community of

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, and the Hotel Colorado in the resort of

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(1891–93). He and the partner that he met in Paris,

William A. Boring William Alciphron Boring (September 9, 1859 – May 5, 1937) was an American architect noted for co-designing the Immigration Station at Ellis Island in New York harbor. Career Boring studied first at the University of Illinois, then spent ...

, won a competition in 1897 to design the first phase of new buildings for the U.S. Immigration Station on

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. Four major buildings were all constructed to their designs before the formal partnership was amicably dissolved in 1904. The two architects continued to share an office. He published his thoughts on library planning and construction, in ''Essentials in Library Planning'' with A.E. Bostwick and S.H Ranck (1928), and "Library Planning" posthumously published in the ''Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects'' (1936).

Work

Tilton worked in the partnership Boring & Tilton (1881-1904), as a solo architect, in the partnership Tilton & Githens (1916-1932), then again briefly in solo practice as consulting architect until his death. * U.S. Immigration Station on

: Main Building (1897–1900), Kitchen and Laundry Building (1900–01), Main Powerhouse (1900–01), and Main Hospital Building (1900–01) * Bayonne Public Library, Bayonne, New Jersey, 1904 * Ludington Public Library, Ludington, Michigan, 1906 * Olean Public Library, Olean, New York, 1907 * Carnegie Science Hall (renamed to Stuart Hall in 1977) at Coe College,

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, 1910 *

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, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1912 * Springfield City Library, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1912 * Sioux City Free Public Library, Sioux City, Iowa, 1913 * Carpenter Memorial Library, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1914 (with architect

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) * Franklin Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1914 *

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, Belmar, New Jersey, 1914 * Bond Hall,

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, South Bend, Indiana, 1915
Trenton Free Public Library
(John Lambert Cadwalader addition), Trenton, New Jersey, 1915 * Peabody Library,

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(now part of

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), Nashville, Tennessee, 1919 * Chester C. Corbin Public Library,

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, 1920 * Riley Hall of Art and Design,

, South Bend, Indiana, 1920 * Wilmington Public Library, Wilmington, Delaware, 1923 * Knight Memorial Library,

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, 1924 * Mount Pleasant Library, Washington DC, 1925 * McGregor Public Library, Highland Park, MI, 1926 * Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1929 * Central Library,

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, Baltimore, Maryland, 1931-1933 * St. Luke's Lutheran Church, NYC, 1922 * campus of Concordia College,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tilton, Edward Lippincott 1861 births 1933 deaths * American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts Architects from New York City