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James Brown Lord (26 April 1859 — 1 June 1902) was an American architect, working in a Beaux-Arts idiom, with a practice in

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. His Appellate Court House was his most prominent commission, noted at the time of his premature death, at the age of forty-three. He designed one of the first of the Carnegie libraries, the Yorkville Branch of the

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, at 222 East 79th Street (''illustration'').

Biography

Lord was born in

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, into a distinguished family, the son of James Couper Lord and grandson of Daniel Lord, a prominent lawyer in New York. His mother was a daughter of James Brown, founder of the firm that became

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. He graduated from

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in 1879 and apprenticed in the architectural office of William A. Potter. He was a member of the

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and designed many of the buildings at

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. He married Mary Townsend Nicoll, of a distinguished New York family and was a member of the Metropolitan Club, the Union League, the Players Club, the Racquet Club and professionally of the

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and the

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, where he was a Fellow. He is buried in

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, Brooklyn.

Selected commissions

His early commissions, from 1883, were for residences in New York; Yonkers, Roslyn, Long Island; Tuxedo Park, New York; and Bar Harbor, Maine. * King Model Houses, West 138 to West 139 Streets, between 7th and 8th Avenues. 1890. Conjointly with

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and

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. *

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, 56 Beaver Street (1890), and Delmonico's Fifth Avenue (1896, demolished). *

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, New York. 1900. *Society of New York Hospital for the Insane (Bloomingdale Asylum), White Plains, New York. 1894 *New York Infant Asylum, Amsterdam Avenue and West 61st Street, New York (1901, demolished) *Brookside Cottage, Tuxedo Park, New York (1892) * St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo Episcopal Church Parish House, Tuxedo Park, New York (1901)

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1859 births 19th-century American architects 1902 deaths Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery {{US-architect-stub

Biography

Selected commissions

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