Sidney Vanuxem Stratton (August 8, 1845Edward Carpenter, and Louis Henry Carpenter, ''Samuel Carpenter and His Descendants'' (1912:71). – June 17, 1921) was an American architect born in

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, but whose practice was entirely in

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. Stratton is now scarcely known, but he was one of the first American architecture students at the

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in Paris, along with

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and

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, in whose office he worked in the 1870s before establishing his own practice. In his picturesque structure for the New York House and School at 120 West 16th Street (1878), a charitable institution teaching sewing skills to poor women, he introduced the Queen Anne style to the United States. This building was designated a

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in 1990. At the

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, Stratton's Queen Anne-style room for the affluent and socially prominent Company K, of which he was a member, is among the best-preserved. He met

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at the École, and later collaborated with

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– from whom he sublet space from 1877 as an independent contractor – on several projects: a church in Quogue, New York (1884), the redesign of the Elliott Roosevelt town house in New York City the same year, and in redesigned interiors in an early classicizing style, for Mr. and Mrs.

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's town house at 19 Gramercy Park South (1887). Other works include: *Avamaya,

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, for Maj. George Montague Wheeler (Later known as Blair Eyrie for second owner D.C. Blair) (1894, demolished). *Carriage House, 150 East 22nd Street, for Miss E.L. Breese (1901); Flemish Renaissance, of

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and limestone, with a stepped gable. Stratton was a member of the

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. He seems to have retired to Natchez, where he had been born and where his father had married his second wife, Miss Caroline Matilda Williams, daughter of Austin Williams of Natchez.Sidney V. Stratton's ''Stratton genealogy of Long Island, N.Y.,''; was published at Natchez, Mississippi, in 1901.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stratton, Sidney V. 19th-century American architects 1845 births 1921 deaths People from Natchez, Mississippi American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts 20th-century American architects