Tracy and Swartwout was a prominent
New York City
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architectural firm
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headed by Evarts Tracy and
Egerton Swartwout.
History
Evarts Tracy (1868–1922) was the son of first cousins Jeremiah Evarts Tracy and Martha Sherman Greene. His paternal grandmother Martha Sherman Evarts and maternal grandmother Mary Evarts were the sisters of
William M. Evarts
William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litig ...
. Evarts Tracey graduated from
Yale
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in 1890.
Egerton Swartwout (1870–1943) was the first son of Satterlee Swartwout and Charlotte Elizabeth Edgerton (daughter of Ohio Representative
Alfred Peck Edgerton). Swartwout graduated from Yale University in 1891.
Both Swartwout and Tracy had trained and worked as draftsmen with the renowned firm,
McKim, Mead and White
McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm that came to define architectural practice, urbanism, and the ideals of the American Renaissance in fin de siècle New York. The firm's founding partners Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), Wi ...
.
From 1904-1909, Tracy and Swartwout were joined by architect
James Riely Gordon, forming the firm Gordon, Tracy & Swartwout.
In 1909-1912 the firm was joined by
Electus Darwin Litchfield
Electus Darwin Litchfield, FAIA (1872–1952) was an American architect and town planner, practicing in New York City.[Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United Sta ...]
and the
Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology is a private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey. Founded in 1870, it is one of the oldest technological universities in the United States and was the first college in America solely dedicated to mechanica ...
. The firm was at this time named Tracy, Swartwout & Litchfield.
Evarts Tracy died January 31, 1922, in France, of chronic myocarditis.
Egerton Swartwout continued working on his own after Evarts Tracy's death.
Buildings
References
External links
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